I miss the old HK. Shout-out to everyone that managed to move out.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16412062

> A high-profile British judge who resigned from Hong Kong’s highest court last week has warned the city is “slowly becoming a totalitarian state” and judges are being compromised by an “impossible political environment created by China”. > > Lord Sumption’s comments on Monday came as a third senior foreign judge in the past week resigned from the Court of Final Appeal. > > "The problem in Hong Kong has been building up over the last four years and I think all the judges on the court feel concerned about this," Lord Sumption told the BBC's Today programme. > > "I have reached the point eventually where I don’t think that my continuing presence on the court is serving any useful purpose." > > On Monday he wrote in a newspaper op-ed that the city's rule of law has been "profoundly compromised".

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16128611

> The verdict wasn’t surprising but outside room no 2 of the West Kowloon courthouse, people still wept. The panel of Hong Kong national security judges had set down two days for the hearing but dispensed with the core business in about 15 minutes. In the city’s largest ever national security trial – involving the prosecution of pro-democracy campaigners and activists from a group known as the “Hong Kong 47” – almost all the defendants were found guilty of conspiracy to commit subversion. > > Their crime was trying to win an election, holding unofficial primaries in 2020 attended by an estimated 600,000 residents. > > The plan was devised by organiser and academic Benny Tai, who had previously been jailed over his involvement in the 2014 “umbrella movement”, and whom Beijing has labelled a “vicious traitor”. Tai’s plan began with primaries to select the best candidates to win a legislative majority. They would then block government budgets to potentially force a dissolution and the resignation of the chief executive, Carrie Lam, in an effort to have the government answer the movement’s demands.

cross-posted from: https://ani.social/post/3804162

> Retro Hong Kong Tram 50s-80s style

No comment, just sad to read these news

Amazing job for the government turning Hong Kong from International city to the fishing village damn

Full minutes: https://www.legco.gov.hk/yr2024/english/panels/se/papers/seajlshs5120240306cb2-258-1-e.pdf

It is kind of weird to have abandoned villages in one of the most densely populated places in the world.

I guess homesteading hasn't caught on in HK yet...

HK is far and away the #1 least affordable housing market ranked by housing cost divided by median income.

18 years of the current median income is required to buy a home in HK.

That is your entire income going towards housing for 18 years if you don't eat, use electricity, pay taxes, etc.

Not including interest on a mortgage.

Sydney Australia is in second place with 13.3 times their median income.

Vancouver, Canada is third with 12.0

It was in canto, it was drawings/cartoon and a video would be "the 10 people you meet in school", I watched it a long time ago but can't remember the name now

edit: found it. it's https://www.youtube.com/@IMbyeian

Hong Kong police on Tuesday arrested a man suspected of molesting a Korean visitor while she was live-streaming for her solo travel blog in Central.

The force said the 46-year-old suspect was picked up on Belcher’s Street in Kennedy Town at about 11am on Tuesday.

The man, who works as a waiter, was detained on suspicion of indecent assault and outraging public decency, according to Inspector Kong Wai-ming of the Central criminal investigation unit. She said officers also seized clothes and shoes that matched what the man who assaulted the woman was wearing.

this storm is worse than the typhoon in some areas. dont be an on9 and try to go driving or save your car. it's not worth your life.

Kelvin, the author of epicurushongkong, said "There is a snake soup restaurant in Kwun Tong that is currently my favourite during this cold winter, a very gamey shop. They sell a classic fried rice dish with cured sausages, deer, venison, and lamb."

Which place is this?

I went to visit some older family friends recently and brought some fruits which included some figs. I was told that figs aren't commonly eaten in HK but I see them quite often. Obviously the more common meats used are chicken, pork, fish, seafood, and to a lesser extent beef. Brocolli (the western kind) isn't commonly found but we have various chois and gai lan.

What other western items do you think are less common in HK?

When it comes to HK, most people think of dim sum, dong lai cha (HK style milk tea), daan tat (HK style egg tart), gai daan jai (egg bubble waffle), maybe going to a cha chaan teng.

For me, it's put chai gou (pudding cake on a stick).

This is the first article I found that's not behind a paywall. As a local resident I can tell you this has a potential to be the most devistating storm in decades... will find out in about 24 hours