Hong Kong's Court of Appeal will soon start hearing the appeals of 13 pro-democracy figures jailed last year for subversion as part of the city's largest national security case. Prosecutors are also appealing one acquittal. A short queue was seen outside court just before 8am.

The Hong Kong 47 who appealed their convictions have a point: There is indeed NO agreement among the organisers and candidates to veto every budget should they've become the majority in the city's legislature. The construction of the argument by the judge who was in charge of

Look at what Beijing does to Macau, and look at those Taiwanese imagining Beijing's takeover of the island is a good thing. You know who're naïve. macaonews.org/news/politics/…

reuters.com/world/uk/russi… Although Beijing didn't start to use those life-threatening tactics against Hongkongers in the UK, I would like to remind you all that they once planned to hit VP Hsiao Bi-khim I'm Prague.

The timing shows how despicable Beijing is.

NHK: LDP & Komeito on the line to lose their majority in the Upper House. Too close to call.

今天舉行的日本參議院選舉，石破茂領導的自民黨遭遇了歷史性的慘敗。現在開票還沒有完全結束，但根據日本媒體的預測，自民黨和聯合執政的公明黨沒有獲得參議院超過半數的席次。繼眾議院之後，日本的執政黨又失去了在參議院的主導權。

6 years on, and the cover up of LOCPG directed mob attack in the suburb of Hong Kong continues. thecollectivehk.com/721-%E5%85%AD%…

This explains why the British did the Rose Garden project, and spent millions on concerts and songs to try to clam Hongkongers down back then. If one remembers, Governor Wilson used the very same term Armageddon in his speech in the HK Society in London soon after the June 4th.

Let's mark this along with a long list of Hongkongers betrayal.

In 2020, Keir Starmer said this. Today, they're in the government and considering reinstating the extradition arrangements, after many Hong Kongers were exiled to the UK. Benedict Rogers 羅傑斯, Luke de Pulford, Hong Kong Watch, Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) labourlist.org/2020/07/watch-…

Taiwanese are casting their ballots tomorrow for the first wave of the grand recall campaign. It's the gamble by DPP chief whip Ker Chien-ming to stop the filibuster at the legislature. However, a successful recall ≠ conversion to DPP in by-election. taiwanplus.com/news/taiwan-re…

Does it mean the Labour Government is going to extradite those who are involved in the so-called HK Parliament in the UK back to HK very soon?

There's more than rejecting using recall as a political tool. Those KMT lawmakers being put on the recall ballot are representing pan-blue leaning constituencies. They simply GOTV to keep their lawmakers in the office. Yes, they're filibustering the legislature, but Taiwanese are

[Breaking] Acting Prime Minister Phumtham and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet will meet in Malaysia tomorrow. The Thai Government has confirmed receiving an official invitation from Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, the current ASEAN Chair, to attend a consultation

1/ Choi Ho, a former South Korean politician who had been questioned by prosecutors investigating alleged nomination interference involving ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keun Hee, has been found dead on a mountain today in an apparent suicide.

Many longstanding China hands are too polite to say it, so I will: In a normal world it would be inconceivable that the United States would accede to Beijing’s demand to pull down a routine transit by Taiwan’s President. This is the clearest sign yet of a deep disturbance in

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1/ Yesterday, Seoul Central District Court issued an arrest warrant for already detained ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol. Right now, prosecutors have arrived at Seoul Detention Centre to forcibly bring him for questioning, according to Yonhap News.