In a press briefing on Thursday evening, Chief Executive John Lee said the fire that broke out in seven blocks of Wang Fuk Court was âlargely extinguished.â
According to the Fire Services Department, as of Thursday night, at least 75 people, including a firefighter, have lost their lives, making the blaze one of the deadliest in Hong Kong history.
As Haaretz has reported on numerous occasions, Cellebriteâs clients have included oppressive regimes that were or still are subject to sanctions, including Belarus, China (including Hong Kong), Uganda, Venezuela, Indonesia, the Philippines, Russia and Ethiopia, as well as Bangladeshâs notorious Rapid Action Battalion.
The security forces in Pakistan are known to commit serious violations of human rights and freedom of expression.
(December 19, 2022)
The COLD TIMES are returning, North America, in line with historically low solar activity.
The joint statement pointed out that non-interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states is an important principle enshrined in the UN Charter and a basic norm of international relations.
A Motherboard investigation found that US state police agencies had collectively spent millions of dollars on Cellebrite products. US federal agencies, such as the FBI and Secret Service, are also Cellebrite customers.
Carmil resents a comparison with the NSO Group. âI know the people at NSO and appreciate their know-how, but Cellebrite works in the legitimate world of the police force, whose abilities are closely controlled, unlike the world of NSO customers and others who engage in illegal and concealed activity. Cellebrite is totally on the good side, where court orders are used. We do not make tools for breaking into private entities or espionage organizations.â
Since bursting onto the Hong Kong Twitter scene, Kong Tsung-gan has been quoted by a whoâs who of Western corporate media outlets. He has been described as an âauthorâ (CNN, Globe and Mail, Time), âwriter and activistâ (New York Times, Washington Post), âactivist and authorâ (LA Times),âactivistâ (AFP, Al Jazeera), âwriter, educator and activistâ (Guardian), âpolitical writerâ (Foreign Policy), âwriterâ (Vice), and âHong Kong writer and activistâ in an op-ed posted by the Nikkei Asian Review.
Kong has also been cited as a âHong Kong journalist and rights activistâ by Radio Free Asia and as a ârights activist and authorâ by Voice of America, two subsidiaries of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM). Tasked with a mission to âbe consistent with the broad foreign policy objectives of the United States,â the USAGM budgeted around $2 million to support protests in Hong Kong in 2020.
Johnsonâs government has pleased President Donald Trumpâs administration in recent weeks as it blocked telecoms giant Huawei Technologies Co. and took action over Hong Kong, but has stopped short of the kind of sanctions imposed on individuals and companies by Washington. While Pompeoâs goal is not to ask for more, according to people familiar with his plans, the MPs will try to get him to carry their demands to his meeting with Johnson.
Mike Pompeo arrived in the U.K. on Monday for a two-day visit that will also see the U.S. Secretary of State stop in Denmark.
As Dan Cohen reported for The Grayzone, Lai is a billionaire media tycoon widely referred to as the Rupert Murdoch of Asia who is a major financial and media backer of Hong Kongâs protest movement. In addition to pouring millions of dollars into Hong Kongâs opposition in recent years, the self-described âhead of opposition mediaâ and founder of the anti-government Apple Daily tabloid, has provided protesters with âunswervingly favorable coverageâ according to The New York Times. Lai has received glowing coverage in US and Western media, with the oligarch often being praised as a ââtroublemakerâ with a clean conscienceâ who is âstanding up to China.â
On June 2, Lai shared a video by Avi Yemini, a far-right YouTube personality and former Israeli army soldier, declaring that it was âbloody disgracefulâ to liken the âriots in Americaâ with Hong Kongâs protest movement.
Die EU will auf das umstrittene Sicherheitsgesetz zu Hongkong nicht mit Sanktionen gegen China reagieren. Er denke nicht, dass Sanktionen der richtige Weg seien, um Probleme mit Peking zu lösen, sagte der EU-AuĂenbeauftragte Josep Borrell heute nach einer Videokonferenz der EU-AuĂenministerinnen und -AuĂenminister.
We should listen to somebody who grew up in a society where there were no civil rights, Angela Merkel, talk about how the current situation justifies restricting our movements. And matters will not stop there: people might have been shocked when they saw China use apps and geolocation to control the movements of its population during the spread of the infection, but we now see Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan following suit: their success is being used to justify population control measures that would be completely unacceptable under normal circumstances.
In Reaktion auf die Hongkong-Gesetze verhÀngt China neue Sanktionen gegen die USA. Wie sich dies auf die Börse auswirkt, berichtet ZDF-Korrespondentin Valerie Haller aus Frankfurt.
Despite harsh language criticizing what Beijing calls U.S. interference in Chinaâs domestic affairs, and a second summoning of the U.S. ambassador in a week, Chinaâs leadership still wants a deal to help alleviate pressure on its fast-weakening economy.
Scharfe Kritik ĂŒbte die chinesische Regierung bereits an dem Entwurf fĂŒr das Gesetz zu Menschenrechten und Demokratie in Hongkong. Fakten und Wahrheiten wĂŒrden vernachlĂ€ssigt, erklĂ€rte AuĂenamtssprecher Geng Shuang. Es handle sich um eine Einmischung in die Angelegenheiten Chinas und Hongkongs und einen ernsthaften VerstoĂ gegen das Völkerrecht.
(22.11.2019)
While claiming to fight for âself-determination,â Hong Kong opposition leaders are collaborating with regime-change neoconservatives in Washington to âpreserve the USâs own political and economic interests.â A new DC lobbying front has become their base of operations.
Dozens of Hong Kong protesters staged a dramatic escape from a university campus sealed off by police on Monday night by shimmying down plastic hosing from a bridge and fleeing on waiting motorbikes as the police fired projectiles.
Speaking to the top-selling Bild newspaper, Wong said: âIt makes me furious that the German Bundeswehr is apparently helping to train Chinese soldiers. Given the riots in Hong Kong, the defence ministry should have ended this programme long ago.â
Hong Kong as a dispute resolution centre and Chief Secretary Matthew Cheungâs shocking confession that he did not know why people are so angry are typical of the arrogance, self-entitlement and ignorance of the baby boomer leaders
Stopping violence and restoring order âmost urgent taskâ for the city, Chinaâs defence ministry says
Chinese and US defence ministers discuss Hong Kong at Bangkok Asean meeting while clashes continue between police and radicals
AnlĂ€sslich des 11. BRICS-Gipfels am Donnerstag in der brasilianischen Hauptstadt Brasilia Ă€uĂerte sich der chinesische PrĂ€sident Xi Jinping zur Haltung der chinesischen Regierung zur Situation Hongkongs und erklĂ€rte, dass die dringendste Aufgabe fĂŒr Hongkong derzeit darin bestehe, Gewalt und Chaos zu beenden und die Ordnung wiederherzustellen.
Hundreds of pro-democracy protesters were surrounded by riot police on Monday inside a besieged Hong Kong college campus, as almost six months of intensifying anti-government unrest appeared headed for a bitter and perhaps bloody climax.
After nearly six months of escalating protests, Hong Kong is a mess, its reputation for efficiency in tatters, its economy in recession, its roads and rails often blocked. And there is no end in sight.
Am Montag hatten Aktivisten zu einem Generalstreik aufgerufen, seitdem herrscht in der ehemaligen britischen Kolonie teilweise Chaos. Die Hongkonger Polizei geht hart gegen die Demonstranten vor, bekommt die Lage aber nicht in den Griff.
Ein Polizeisprecher verurteilte das gewaltsame Vorgehen der Demonstranten scharf. Die Rechtsstaatlichkeit in der chinesischen Sonderverwaltungsregion befinde sich „am Rande des totalen Zusammenbruchs“, sagte Kong Wing-Cheung von der Hongkonger Polizei.