Big Lychee, Various Sectors

I’m off to Hokkaido.

Jimmy Lai biographer Mark Clifford op-ed in Japan Times on the HK Alliance convictions… Chow Hang-tung first went to jail for lighting a candle… …Defendants in Hong Kong supposedly have a constitutional right to trial by jury, part of the … Continue readi…

In HKFP – Chow Hang-tung’s mitigation… Believing that dictatorship is wrong and democracy is right – if that isn’t a belief, then what is?

In China File, Jeremy Goldkorn goes back to China for the first time in years… It may be hard to make money in China in 2026, but it is very pleasant to spend it.

Prospect Magazine on Chow Hang-tung… …she advocated for labourers in mainland China and built connections with Chinese dissidents.

A group of lawyers’ organizations issue a statement on Chow Hang-tung… Chow Hang-tung has been subjected to extensive harassment, multiple arrests, prolonged pre-trial detention and periods of solitary confinement by the authorities for her legitimate hum…

Following a notorious animal-cruelty case in the Mainland, Hong Kong people line up to lay flowers in memory of the dead dog Wang Wang and launch publicity campaigns calling for better protection for animals in China.

The Hong Kong government’s statement on the conviction of Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan… The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government today (August 22) expressed strong dissatisfaction with and firm opposition to, and strongly condemn…

For years after 1989, the HK Alliance were free to organize annual Tiananmen vigils, which included calls for an end to one-party rule in China.

Some stats from a contributor here.

Hong Kong’s population reaches 7.58 million – a 0.3%/19,400 increase year on year.

A thorough HKFP account of Hong Kong’s clampdown on bookstores, which seems to be expanding into a broader official fear of books imported from Taiwan… This year alone, staff from four bookstores were arrested by national security police.

From the HK Uncensored Substack… A hard-hitting Observer investigation by Danny Vincent reveals the extraordinary lengths Hong Kong’s authorities have gone to keep Jimmy Lai isolated — clearing entire floors of Stanley Prison to cut him off from other inm…

Spent yesterday morning getting my first proper physical in a decade at a place in Central.

Lingua Sinica examines the links between pro-Beijing media outlets attacking the HK Journalists Association last week… Without evidence, and in remarks that seemed a clear public setup stemming from the Wen Wei Po question [at a press conference on a … Co…

Desmond Shum tweet on Beijing’s tax clampdown on offshore wealth… Article 11 states that even someone who has obtained foreign nationality or permanent or long-term residence overseas may still be deemed a Chinese domiciled tax resident if his or her … Co…

The Court of Appeal allows 11 of the HK47 – convicted of ‘conspiracy to commit subversion’ over the 2020 pan-dem primary elections – to go to the Court of Final Appeal… The defendants feature some of Hong Kong’s most prominent … Continue reading →

Lingnan University Students Union – founded in 1967 – decides to dissolve.

The Hang Seng Index suffers a modest plunge as insurers, banks and property developers worry that Beijing’s new drive to tax decades of offshore income will dissuade wealthy Mainlanders from parking their money in Hong Kong.

We don’t hear much about the Legislative Council these days.