As soon as we were down the road and out of earshot I let out a scream, Tooooooony! My friend thought I had gone completely nuts.

They missed this great one in Hong Kong www.mplus.org.hk/en/exhibitio...

Lai is conservative, Catholic, and had connections with powerful Republicans close to Trump. I'm sure that made no difference at all to the WSJ top brass who decided to make Lai their beacon for press freedom in HK, but kick Cheng to the curb for her press freedom activism.

I’m eager to see how many American commentators call him “Mr. Filho”

The dance scene was breathtaking. But I was not onboard for the vampire ending.

I got the English version

The Tai Po fire public response demonstrated that the Hong Kong collective spirit is alive and well, and does not need incitement nor instruction to guide their actions.

do you know which afp reporter asked the question?

In the US this is called “getting ahead of the narrative” 🙄

The irony is that the HK gov will use the tragedy to stop the use of bamboo scaffolding, which will lengthen project times, and make new construction in tight urban spaces noisier, more disruptive, and probably more dangerous. In NYC, where steel scaffolding is used, it stays up for years and years.

..queasy pall over everything. Living this way is a nightmare for tenants. So if you are managing a building, you want renovations to run quickly + efficiently. The tenants of Wang Fuk Court had been living for 18 months in shadows, with no transparency about when their renovation would be over. 2/x

The past offenses and convictions of Prestige Contractors were on public record. So why were they allowed to continue bidding on, and winning, million dollar contracts with only slaps on the wrist from the authorities? Most Hong Kong people can fill in the blanks, as I am sure you can, too.