Wildly-popular local boy band MIRROR has announced their first concerts at the Hong Kong Coliseum. The 10 gig MIRROR.WE.ARE tour takes place 25-31 July 27 – 31 and 2-4 August 2-4 this year. Tickets are $1,280, $880, $480 and are on sale from 4 May 2022.
Mirror.We.Are Live 2022
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Date: 8:15pm, 25-31 July, 2-4 August 2022
Venue: HK Coliseum
Tickets: $1,280, $880, $480
Kitchee became the first Hong Kong team ever to reach the AFC Champions League knock-out stage. An injury-time equaliser secured a 2-2 draw on Sunday with Vissel Kobe.
When Yoshinori Muto scored in the 87th minute to put Vissel 2-1 ahead, Kichee’s chance of progressing looked remote. But as they have done throughout the tournament Kitchee dug deep and Raul Baena scored with a header in the 91st minute to earn the point needed to progress.
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On the Hong Kong Women’s tour of United Arab Emirates, the UAE Women made it a sweep of the four-game T20 series beating Hong Kong Women by 9 wickets at the Malek Cricket Ground, 30 April 2022.
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Local craft brewery Carbon Brews new outlet soft-opened this week on Wyndham Street. It would be slightly misleading to call it a ‘taproom’ or ‘gastropub’ because (as you can see from the photo) it has a far more clubby/ lounge vibe.
With thirty taps, there’s likely to be a beer for everyone – flavour profiles range from the traditional to a pina colada flavoured Kokomo – and they are served in small, medium and large sizes. As well as Carbon Brew beers, other local craft beers and collaborations will rotate across the taps. There’s also an option to buy a keg and have your own ‘tap’!
Chef Sean Yuen’s menu features a selection of tasty starters and mains that the knowledgeable staff can pair with a beer to enhance your meal or snack.
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Carbon Brews Central
Shop 1, G/F, The Centrium, 60 Wyndham Street, Central, Hong Kong
Twenty-year-old Gloria Ha won a silver medal in the women’s singles at the inaugural World Bowls Indoor Championships – after the merging of World Bowls’ (WB) and the International Indoor Bowls Council’s (IIBC) flagship events – in Bristol.
Ha topped the round-robin group stage and defeated Ireland’s
Lara Reaney in the first knockout round. She went on to face former World
Champion Alison Merrien from Guernsey in the quarter-final and needed an extra end victory to get through to the semi-final, where she defeated another Irish player Sandra Bailie comfortably at 10:3, 10:5.
In the final Ha faced Scotland’s Julie Forrest and struggled against some fine draw play and was never really in the match losing 9:4, 10:2.
In the men’s singles, Arthur Lam finished as runner-up in his group but lost in the first knockout round to Ian Merrien.
In the mixed pairs, Lam and Ha won two matches to finish second in their group, narrowly missing out on the quarter-finals.
On the Hong Kong Women’s tour of United Arab Emirates, the UAE Women win the third T20 international beating Hong Kong Women by 26 runs at the Malek Cricket Ground, 29 April 2022.
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American lawyer Samuel Bickett recently deported from Hong Kong at the completion of his prison sentence, has written about life in Hong Kong’s prisons during Covid.
On 22 April 2022 Bickett applied to the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal to appeal his 2021 assault conviction.
Prisoners have been harmed more by pandemic lockdown measures than by Covid
My intention is for this to be the first in a series of articles about my second stint in Hong Kong’s prisons earlier this year. In truth, I’ve found it more traumatic than expected to recall and write about these events, so I’ll make no guarantees about future articles. But there is a lot to tell, and I promise I will do my best to share it with you.
A cancer-stricken 75 year-old political detainee housed in the same cell as me at Lai Chi Kok Prison had his court hearing cancelled and was forced to remain locked up without bail, and without any indication of when he’d be able to seek release.
Hundreds of prisoners at Stanley Prison were locked alone in tiny cells for six weeks, only permitted out briefly every other day for a shower.
A dead prisoner’s corpse was left in a shared cell for hours, as other prisoners bunched together on the furthest wall in the small room to avoid getting too close… ”
Read the full article here samuelbickett.substack.com/p/the-black-box-my-experience-in-hong
The amended Smoking (Public Health) Ordinance (Cap 371) which prohibits the import, promotion, manufacture, sale and possession for commercial purposes of alternative smoking products (ASPs) takes effect from 30 April 2022.
“The ban covers electronic smoking products, heated tobacco products, herbal cigarettes, and their accessories. Starting this Saturday, Tobacco and Alcohol Control Inspectors will conduct inspections, investigate complaints and carry out enforcement actions accordingly,” said a spokesman for the Department of Health (DH). Offenders are subject to a maximum fine of $50,000 and imprisonment for six months.
According to the amended Ordinance, import of an ASP by way of parcels, cargoes or bringing in by incoming travellers is prohibited. Travellers bringing ASPs into Hong Kong, regardless of the quantity or whether they are for personal use, must declare them to the Customs and Excise Department.
The amendment also makes it an offence to smoke or carry an activated ASP in a statutory no-smoking area. Offenders will face a $1,500 fixed penalty notice.
The Tobacco and Alcohol Control Office (TACO) has published a pamphlet to assist the public, incoming travellers and traders in complying with the new legislative requirements.
If you wish to quit smoking you can call the DH’s Integrated Smoking Cessation Hotline on 1833 183 which offers professional counselling services on smoking cessation. Information on quitting smoking can also be obtained from www.livetobaccofree.hk.
