The LCSD refurbishment of the Portland Street Rest Garden in Yau Tsim Mong District has been completed and the garden reopened to the public on 23 September.
It’s good that these public spaces are being upgraded. We’re just not sure that bright pink is the most restful of colours – and the image of octogenarian HongKongers playing Chinese chess on bright pink tables is certainly one for Instagram.
Enjoy some Women’s Premiership rugby this weekend!
Entry is Free!
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Gai Wu Falcons 0-22 USRC Tigers
@ Shek Kip Mei, Kick-off: 18:00
Kowloon 55-0 CWB Phoenix
@ King’s Park, Kick-off: 18:00
Valley Black 12-11 HKFC Ice
@ Happy Valley, Kick-off: 18:00
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The director kept his eyes on the audience, ignoring the cops in the back of the room.
It was a private screening of a romance film by Kiwi Chow. Several dozen friends had gathered in the office of a local district councillor to watch the movie and hear Chow speak. He was a politically sensitive figure who’d made films about Hong Kong’s protests and China’s crackdown on the city’s liberties.
His new work was an apolitical tale about a schizophrenic man who falls in love with a psychological counsellor. Hardly a storyline that would provoke dissent or violate a national security law. But the audience took note when two dozen police officers arrived. Chow, undeterred, went on with his talk.
By midnight, police had shut down the screening, fining each attendee HK$5,000 for violating social distancing rules. If the screening had featured Chow’s protest documentary, they could have been fined HK$1 million and imprisoned for up to three years, according to a law proposed by the Hong Kong government in August.
Police raids on movie screenings — unimaginable in Hong Kong a few years ago — are the latest reality in Beijing’s relentless suppression of the territory’s civil liberties. For filmmakers like Chow, 42, they are a sign of how China’s grip on Hong Kong is not only about asserting political control but also suffocating the cultural spaces where art can reflect truth and build solidarity in a society…
Read the full LA Times article here https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-09-16/china-hong-kong-movies-censorship
It’s Back!!!
Women’s Premiership rugby returns this weekend!
Stretch your legs, stroll down and watch the ladies in action.
Entry is Free!
Coleman Wong Chak-lam made history at the US Open when he became the first Hongkonger to win a Boys’ Doubles Grand Slam tournament.
The unseeded duo, 17-year-old Wong paired with Max Westphal (18), beat Viacheslav Bielinskyi and Petr Nesterov after a tie-breaker 6-3, 5-7, 10-1.
updated:19:38, 12 September – added video highlights of the final
images: US Open
Celebrating the achievements of the Hong Kong team at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Hongkong Post will issue a commemorative stamp sheetlet. The set of five newly designed stamps will showcase the medal-winning sports of fencing, swimming, table tennis, karate and track cycling.
All of Hong Kong’s Olympic medallists Cheung Ka Long, Siobhan Haughey, Doo Hoi Kem, Lee Ho Ching, Minnie Soo Wai Yam, Grace Lau and Lee Wai Sze will be featured on the commemorative sheetlet to be issued on 28 October, 2021.
Stamps to celebrate Hong Kong’s Tokyo Paralympic medalists will apparently be released later.
Ophelia So (formerly known as Su Huien) performs her new single Save a Life in Causeway Bay over the weekend.
https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2021/20210905-Ophelia-Su-Huien-Performs-in-Causeway-Bay/i-MnqTTnV
