Galileo Cheng

Something Is Very Wrong Online Our political conversations take place in very same spaces that incubate and perpetuate unthinkable violence.

Wrote about the week. How the shooter's ID didn't appear to matter to ppl. How the discourse takes place in very same spaces that incubate/perpetuate hate & violence. How shooters now know that their acts will be flattened, analyzed, argued over & amplified. How all of this feels so dark & poisonous

And a fruitful chat with Ann Hui!

Internationally acclaimed Hong Kong film director Ann Hui 許鞍華 holding masterclass sharing with film commentator Tony Rayns in King's College London in London, Britian on April 18, 2025.

"Hong Kong itself is not planned, you just work day to day and make it happen."

MP refused entry to Hong Kong on visit to see newborn grandson Wera Hobhouse, a Liberal Democrat, is believed to be the first parliamentarian turned away since China took control in 1997

I am the first MP to be refused entry on arrival to Hong Kong since 1997.

Authorities gave me no explanation for this cruel and upsetting blow.

I hope the Foreign Secretary will recognise that this is an insult to all parliamentarians and seek answers from the Chinese Ambassador.

今天我們正式宣布啟動「香港問責檔案庫」（Hong Kong Accountability Archive，HKAA），這個獨立的2019年示威錄像資料庫旨在保存這些侵犯人權事件的證據，藉以促進和平集會自由。請觀看宣傳影片來更深入了解檔案庫。

Completely the big journey with my 18yo cat from Vancouver through Paris and Calais to London.

A day of strolling in Chinatown

Patriotism sans vegetables.

Groceries stores proclaiming Canadian owned and operated, selling "Product of Canada", while most of the organic vegatables are imported from the United States, in Vancouver B.C., February 25, 2025.

獨家：英國居民又收香港信件呼籲舉報流亡港人 劉珈汶成為第二位被通緝者接獲同類信件 被香港警方懸紅通緝的“香港民主委員會”（Hong Kong Democracy Council）高級國際倡議幹事劉珈汶對美國之音指，她所居住的地區有居民收到來自香港、呼籲舉報她的信件，信件同樣指如果將她送到中國大使館，可以獲得港幣100萬元賞金。信件內容與上星期另一封與同樣被香港警方懸紅通緝的香港獨立倡議委員會（Independent Committee for Hong Kong Advocac...

Exclusive: A resident in Carmen Lau's area received a letter from Hong Kong urging them to "take her to Chinese Embassy" for HK$1M reward. The letter's format is exactly same as that for Tony Chung, as both are wanted by the Hong Kong police.
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Exclusive: Foxconn stops sending Chinese workers to India iPhone factories In addition, equipment shipments are delayed, potentially disrupting next-generation iPhone production in India.

MY SCOOP w @violazhou.bsky.social 👉
Foxconn staff rotations to India stopped, Chinese expatriates to return home, & equipment exports are held up.

Apple overcame tech challenges to make its iPhone Pro Maxes elsewhere, but now, new problems. An obvious one?

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In memorium. Flowers blossom on the slope facing Lai Chi Kwok Detention Centre. Photojournalists used to climb there to capture photos of those detained

Late Shiu Ka-chun's prisoners' welfare advocacy & support grp WALL-FARE 石牆花- flowers blossom in the stone wall

#石牆生花

Fernando Cheung (right), former lawmaker, is now a refugee in Canada working as social work lecturer in Toronto.

Photo: Shiu and Cheung holding a candlelight vigil for detainees in Castle Peak Bay immigration centre in Tuen Mun, Hong Kong on October 6, 2020.

2 Timothy Chapter 4:7 - I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith.

Pray for late Shiu Ka-chun (left), former lawmaker, social worker, lecturer and activist, passed away today at 55;

A memorable chance to learn how to shoot a parade, a prime minister, with support from Hong Kong Journalists Association- their accreditation accepted by PM Office. 記協及攝記協是我家 🥹

Trudeau legacy - Justin Trudeau attended the 49th Vancoucer Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade, after the hiatus during COVID-19, in Vancouver on Jan 22, 2023. He was warmly welcome by parade goers and kids.

A memorable chance to learn how to shoot a parade and a prime minister

CNN: China has built or expanded more than 200 specialized detention facilities to interrogate suspects ensnared in Xi Jinping’s widening anti-corruption drive, as the Chinese leader extends his crackdown to a vast swath of public sectors

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あけおめ！今年もよろしくお願いします

YouTube video by BBC Stories Meet the kids who grew up in Chinese takeaways - BBC Stories

How I grew up in London: being the only Chinese people in town, but everyone know Hong Kong or even worked and lived in Hong Kong

- no, I just helping out every summer but I have done EVERYTHING in the clip

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Hong Kong ex democratic lawmaker convicted for rioting after 2019 mob attack A Hong Kong court on Thursday convicted prominent former pro-democracy lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting for rioting after he was attacked by a white-shirted mob in July 2019 at the height of that year's pro-democracy protests.

"Such a verdict is unjust for those brave people who were trying to save passengers including myself from being assaulted by (the) white shirt clad mob, and an act of self-defence," Galileo Cheng, a journalist who was injured during the attack, told Reuters.

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Friendship bracelet exchange with TransLink staff at Stadium-Chinatown station ahead of Taylor Swift The Eras tour in #vancouver on December 6th, 2024.

In other BREAKING news: the Georgian revolt has started.

#Georgia 🇬🇪🇪🇺

Youth Movements in Asia, Past and Present: The Transnational Side of the

Two talks next week, both at Stanford on Wednesday, noon fsi.stanford.edu/events/youth... & 4pm ealc.stanford.edu/events/readi...

上堂要學寫obituary，嚴謹research 或起底一個公眾人物是我專長，撮寫成英文卻難以信雅達，自覺只有中文才對味。
凌晨四點鐘，突然反胃火燒心，見到獲刊，幸甚。
好些事情，非我拒絕融入，而確是自覺身位有別。

My sincere gratitude to the Hong Kong Journalists Association letting me vent out my grief.

Gwyneth Ho's (何桂藍) message in light of being sentenced to 7 years in prison (h/t @chungchingkwong.bsky.social for the share)

Jimmy Lai is on the stand today. This offers a rare chance to have his voice heard.

Lai noted that Apple Daily upheld the value of freedom of speech & hoped the #HongKong people would enjoy such freedom. "The more information you have, the more you are in the know, the more you’re free.” Lai said.

這種感覺，由填詞人潘源良寫入《今天世上所有地方》，其中一句歌詞是「照片都不想讓我看一看」，「我想那個意思是說，其實我將要去的地方，我都不想讓你們知道我在哪裡住，為什麼？」

「那個吊詭的地方是，我發現有很多人其實不在香港，但他們都感受到那種壓力，那個無形的手……我們都要找個方法去處理，或者去對抗這個無形的手，大家互勉，不只是等藝人去做，大家的支持都很重要。」

黃耀明提到有兩件事形塑自己的信念，一是同性戀者身份，「令到我對被受壓迫的人會有一個同理心」；另一件事是六四，「影響了我對甚麼是公義（的看法），或者你需不需要走出來。」

他想起過去幾年，不少朋友都迅速而神秘地離開。「（在《今天應該很高興》推出的）1988年，或者 80 年代的香港。他們離開香港的時候，大家會送別，大家會餞行，但是在 2020 年他們離開香港的時候，是……是很神秘，還要很保密。」

黃耀明提到，有朋友選擇在飛機上用 WiFi 傳來相片，才錯愕得知對方已離港，一度咽哽，感嘆時代不如顧嘉煇、黃霑創作的《抉擇》，沒人再闖一番新世界，挺身發奮圖強，而是「裙拉褲甩」，惶惶不可終日。

報道｜黃耀明：想過離開香港　我的世界在所有地方 | Wave. 流行文化誌 黃耀明早前到加拿大卑詩大學與二百名聽眾分享，對於在香港無法開演唱會，他坦言曾想過離開香港，但為著牽絆的人和事，他決意留下，直到不能。但演唱會不一定要在香港，如很多香港人一樣漂流在外，黃耀明闊別加拿大五年後，「邊走邊唱」巡遊演唱會漂到多倫多及溫哥華兩地舉行。

未試過寫到自己都揪心，多謝明仔。
文章略有刪節，下詳。

// 「我當然有想過離開，我很坦白地說，我有想過離開，但是香港有很多我牽絆的人和事，我覺得我應該為了他們在這裡，這個不是一個 promise，我不需要向任何人 promise，我自己一個人，我不需要向任何人去問責。但是有很多人和事仍然令我覺得我應該在那裡，留到我覺得我自己都不行了，那才算了。」//

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The photo was published as the cover for:

Resist! Democracy and Youth Activism in Myanmar, Hong Kong, and Singapore, edited by Amy Freedman and Joseph Tse-Hei Lee. New York: Pace University Press, 2024.

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