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China’s response:

Some ex-Apple Daily journalists were finally able to (partially) get their wages, nearly three years later, from the provisional liquidator. It's their own money, but it's a mental struggle whether to fight for it.
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European Parliament passes resolution on Hong Kong:

“The UK needs to better protect HKers and at-risk diasporas from Beijing’s overreach. As a journalist once subject to state surveillance, this issue is close to my heart.” - Labour candidate and former journalist in China Yuan Yang

🌟🇹🇼 The Taiwan Foreign Correspondents’ Club TFCC is proud to host this year’s Human Rights Press Awards ceremony. It’ll be a remarkable occasion for both journalism and Taiwan. TFCC, Human Rights Watch, The Reynolds Center for Business Journalism, Cronkite School & FCCThai are jointly administering the 2024 awards.

#BREAKING Long-awaited verdict on #Standnews sedition case - which was previously set on April 29 - is postponed again to the end of August according to latest court listing.

'Christopher Berry, 32, and Christopher Cash, 29, will be charged with providing prejudicial information to a foreign state, China, and will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday, 26 April.” cps.gov.uk/cps/news/cps-a…

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At a time when press freedom faces immense challenges in #HongKong , a group of overseas HK journalists open a new frontier for telling stories about the Hong Kong community - a new English publication called the HongKonger. Here’s my debut piece: hongkonger.world/2024/04/17/the…

More on what lies ahead for me later...in the meantime check out and subscribe to The Hongkonger - an English publication that celebrates all things Hong Kong.

Some great piece by Patrick Poon 潘嘉偉 lokman tsui Kris Cheng and many more familiar names.

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Personal news: I've left HK. Noodles became my favourite dish during my years in HK/China and I was worried I would not find the same flavours overseas (scarred by growing up in Aus). But a recent celebration of Asian food in the west have eased my woes
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US citizen John Leung in a confession-style WeChat video for the national security education day. Leung, a former leader of patriotic overseas Chinese groups, was jailed in China for life for “spying for US since the late 1980s”

When paralegal Chan Tsz-wah was testifying in Jimmy Lai’s trial, a dinner with Lai and veteran democrat Martin Lee was raised.

Asked by the prosecution if Lee spoke, Chan said he did, “try some sashimi.”

'This is the first time any RSF representative has been denied entry or held at the Hong Kong airport.'

Hong Kong: RSF representative detained and deported on attempt to monitor Jimmy Lai’s national security trial

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A 43-year-old accountant was jailed for 33 months for rioting on July 21, 2019 for throwing items at men in white - the attackers - and holding an umbrella to cover for others.

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