Hong Kong migrants must not become collateral damage in the UK governmentโs attempts to appear tough on immigration and beat back the threat of the populist right
18.09.2025 06:02 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 4@vickywong710.bsky.social
Digital journalist with BBC News, previously with Reuters Fact Check and RTHK English; Views my own, reposts and likes are things that made me go hmm or bookmarked for later; obsessed with yarn when not on duty. ๐London
Hong Kong migrants must not become collateral damage in the UK governmentโs attempts to appear tough on immigration and beat back the threat of the populist right
18.09.2025 06:02 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 4RIP Jumbo, immortalised in delicious gingerbread
10.09.2025 18:32 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Insane HK gingerbread house/time capsule on the Bake Off
10.09.2025 18:32 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I tuned out because the show started getting ridiculous and I missed it when they just asked people to make a Victoria sponge instead of a 3D cake (the judgesโ confusion over what pandan is one time made me uneasy). Still a watchable show otherwise
06.09.2025 10:35 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0HK represent on the Great British Bake Off! ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ
05.09.2025 20:44 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1What makes โThe Great British Bake Offโ so beloved is that itโs one of the most successful unscripted shows of the century and still feels like an underdog. Ruby Tandoh, a former contestant, shares stories from inside the tent.
03.09.2025 16:31 โ ๐ 170 ๐ 20 ๐ฌ 8 ๐ 2It's coming up to 2 years since Hong Kong-based journalist Minnie Chan was last seen by her colleagues or her family. Last seen attending an event in Beijing. We will never give up hope for her safe return. #journalismisnotacrime www.scmp.com/author/minni...
02.09.2025 23:52 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0In case you missed this yesterday from me on saving the last big animal surviving by itself wild in the Yangtze River. #China CLICK ON LINK to read
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The Foreign Correspondentsโ Club, Hong Kong is deeply concerned by the confirmation that @bloomberg.com journalist Rebecca Choong Wilkins has had her visa renewal application denied.
Full statement: www.fcchk.org/visa-denial-...
Cannot overstate how honored I was to have ้ญไธ้ฒ่ @roseluqiu.bsky.social and ๆนๅฏๆ @fangkc.bsky.social on Ep.2 of ๅผ้จ่งๅฑฑ|Gateway to Global China, a podcast
@madeinchinajournal.com, to discuss the state of journalism in China. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did!
madeinchinajournal.com/2025/07/25/e...
Yeah they were there to film a Christmas special. Will be interesting to see how they film it because I think theyโre in the early to mid-70s at this point of the show
28.07.2025 19:55 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0An attempt at Cantonese on Call the Midwife, no idea what half this sentence was.
I only got ใๅๅคงๅๅฅณๅใ (such a big girl now) and have no idea what the rest of this sentence was
This is a great resource
adoptastation.org?fbclid=PAQ0x...
โSince AFP was founded in 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, some have been injured, others taken prisoner.
But none of us remember witnessing colleagues die of hunger"
๐โ10 It's been a while since Hong Kong's TVB live reporters have earned their raincoat and helmet
20.07.2025 02:47 โ ๐ 13 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.
๐ www.404media.co/the-astronom...
Have you (re)watched an Asian film recently ? We'd love to know what you think about it. @asiancha.bsky.social's ๐
๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ is a feature devoted to compact reviews of books and films (300-800 words; negotiable) that may also offer personal reflections.
chajournal.blog/category/fir...
Photo of the screen of a parking validation machine that says "please pay displayed amount: five dollars", and underneath that, "change is possible."
I appreciate the optimism of this parking validation machine
09.07.2025 15:00 โ ๐ 13836 ๐ 1462 ๐ฌ 179 ๐ 96The whole thing is worth a read but this final paragraph did have me scratching my head a bit
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
One of Hong Kong's last major pro-democracy parties disbands www.bbc.com/news/article...
30.06.2025 07:28 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1HKers know this well. A wave of resignations among university leadership followed the imposition of the national security law as pro-Beijing politicians and state media targeted administrators they accused of sympathising with pro-democracy student protestors or not dealing with them harshly enough.
27.06.2025 20:21 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I canโt imagine GovHK letting them โdieโ. What would that do to their economic narratives?
Back when Hong Kong only had 2 commercial TV stations, the government made sure for years that ATV (the one losing money every hour) would not go bankrupt, to ensure TVB would not become a monopolyโฆ
HK-born American stand-up comedian Jimmy O. Yang has become the latest "marquee" celebrity to partner with the city's tourism body to "tell good stories of HK." In full: buff.ly/Rm9SYb0
25.06.2025 00:00 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 4Guys yโall need to watch Noble House, thereโs an extended scene where Jumbo (named the Floating Dragon in this show) is on fire
29.04.2025 19:41 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@joeyshea.bsky.social hi Joey, Iโm a web journalist for BBC News online, was wondering if youโre free for a quick chat about an article Iโm writing concerning Saudi Arabia? Feel free to DM me or email at vicky.wong@bbc.co.uk
27.04.2025 14:37 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Gimli and James Bond in a corporate intrigue show where I guess theyโre playing the heads of fictitious HK conglomerates. All the locals speak English but I cheered when I heard a quiet ๅฑไฝ ่ๆฏ and ๆ็ไฝ ้ญท้ญ!
21.04.2025 06:53 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Weโre watching Noble House and wow look at what HK used to look like! Look at Aberdeen! Look itโs the famous pothole window building!
20.04.2025 19:57 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 2Internationally acclaimed Hong Kong film director Ann Hui ่จฑ้่ฏ 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."
The Hong Kong government has officially responded to @werahobhouse.bsky.social being denied to enter the city, saying, "The person concerned knows best what he or she has done."
14.04.2025 15:22 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 2