Perhaps the most legendary of Bond‘s cars the DB5 is now on display at The Peninsula Hotel until 29 October and it can be yours for £2.75 million.
The DB5 on display is an Aston Martin DB5 Goldfinger part of a limited production of 25 which are authentic reproductions of the DB5 seen on the screen. This includes functioning modifications such as the revolving number plates, retractable bulletproof rear shield, pop-out machine guns and more, which were made famous in Goldfinger.
The physical version of the June 4th Museum was shut down by HK Police a couple of months ago for allegedly operating without the correct licences.
To preserve the history of Beijing’s bloody crackdown on peaceful Tiananmen Square protesters in 1989, a group of people created an online museum at 8964museum.com.
Today the website is inaccessible via several of Hong Kong’s telecom providers, the first obvious example of China’s ‘great firewall’ making it’s appearance locally.
8964museum.com is an archive and historical record of the key events and figures in the peaceful student-led demonstrations that spread across China in 1989. Protests that ended in a hail of People Liberation Army bullets – leaving thousands, of civilians dead and injured.
With all references to the Tiananmen Square massacre censored in mainland China. The annual Victoria Park candlelight vigils to remember those killed in the crackdown were seen by many HongKongers as a symbol of the city’s promised freedoms and autonomy under the one country two systems.
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With little confidence in the government’s Covid-19 response, too many HongKongers have still not got vaccinated. Quite why, when the Pfizer/Biontech Comirnaty vaccine is produced and tested in the regulatory intense European Union and is free, I don’t understand.
Rather than make vaccination mandatory pressure was put on companies to ‘bribe’ HongKongers with lucky draws and prizes for getting vaccinated. Among those deciding to participate was Cathay Pacific who offered “25,000 free tickets to over 50 destinations. You can enter the lucky draw between 16 September and 30 September, 2021.”
Not one to turn down the chance of a free flight ticket I entered. With the entry closing date the 30 September 2021 and the Cathay website indicating “The results will be drawn on 5 October, 2021 and announced on the Cathay website.”
So I was more than a little surprised this morning (29 September) to receive an email from Cathay informing me that I was not a winner, but that they would keep sending me promotional material – something I specifically opted out of.
unfortunately, you weren’t chosen as a winner on this occasion.
“weren’t chosen” in the email also seems to imply that the draw is not random, but prizes are issued to Asia Miles members (needed to enter the draw) with accounts that Cathay wants to reward.
bc has approached Cathay for comment and will update this article if one is recieved.
The draws maybe a scam for your personal data, but getting vaccinated will reduce your chance of getting Covid-19 and reduce in most cases the seriousness of the infection. Get Vaccinated!!
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.
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
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
