an inspiring story of communal solidarity takes a hard right turn www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

… www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

Hong Kong blaze spotlights enduring role of city's foreign domestic helpers reut.rs/49RioG5

cf. www.thestandard.com.hk/hong-kong-ne...

The news that’s been coming out of Tai Po the past couple days—including the foreign domestic workers among the dead, injured, and missing—has me thinking a lot today about a particular painting by HK artist Yeung Tong Lung.

Another org not on the Ming Pao list: www.migrants.net/support-tai-...

Many migrant workers were affected too and Bethune House, a shelter for migrant women workers, is contacting their families (ways to donate directly TBC). Meanwhile you can donate to the org itself here: bethunehouse.org/donate

The aftermath begins. As far back as Sept 2024, Hong Kong’s Labour Department dismissed resident concerns that the scaffolding nets were unsafe, saying the materials met safety standards, based on documents from Prestige Construction and Engineering (🎁 Free to read) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...

A HK university student has created a petition urging the gov't to respond to "4 big demands" after the deadly Tai Po fire, including setting up an independent investigation committee. In full: buff.ly/86gUoQk

I have also spoken to a journalist that lives in the neighborhood and he has confirmed that the government "care teams" have started taking over relief centers, kicking out volunteers and taking over supplies donated by the general public.

oh man…

A dog has been reunited with its owners, who had been anxiously waiting outside Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po after it went missing for two days during the massive fire that broke out on Wednesday. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP.

Construction sites all over the city are hastily removing the safety nets. Just shows you how rampant this corrupt behaviour has been - and how little oversight there is.

The news that’s been coming out of Tai Po the past couple days—including the foreign domestic workers among the dead, injured, and missing—has me thinking a lot today about a particular painting by HK artist Yeung Tong Lung.

“In view of the immense public interest involved, the ICAC today (November 27) set up a task force to launch a full investigation into possible corruption in the grand renovation project of Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po.” www.icac.org.hk/en/p/press/i...

Hong Kong Fire Services Department update 2:50pm, Thursday November 27th 2025: • death toll has risen to 55

truly horrific, and speaks to how fortunate it was that the chinachem tower blaze (only last month!) happened on a saturday

|| NEW EPISODE || Six years after Hong Kong’s mass protests, @yangyangcheng.bsky.social talks with sociologist Ching Kwan Lee and historian @jwassers.bsky.social about the struggle’s enduring significance, its transnational afterlives, and what it teaches us amid today’s democratic backsliding.

watched some of these already and gotta shout out the candidates who declined an interview

hk:

guy knows how to pick a winner

what are the odds that running a survey like this in hk would result in arrest? www.scmp.com/sport/other-...

glen powell is everywhere

obligatory psa to note that jackie chan sucks shit

How can that possibly be profitable for Frito-Lay, Charlie Brown

never met an egg tart i wasn’t thankful for

A story about press freedom in Hong Kong, as reported by Hong Kong's oldest student newspaper. "The exhibition... was set to feature historic photographs documenting key moments in Hong Kong since the late 1980s..." tyr-jour.hkbu.edu.hk/2025/11/22/e...

the revolution will be available on spotify

full marks to the headline writer for this one

scmp opinion columnists just asking questions

this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics

"Matthew 25 makes it clear that whatever I do or withhold from the most vulnerable, I do or withhold from Jesus. Right now, it’s hard for me to imagine a scarier place to be detained, and that makes my discernment about how to respond easy."

mmmmmm dashes

Reporting their activities to the authorities who’d then come up with accusations has become a common strategy to harass indie bookshops pressure them into closing down. Indie bookshops have been so courageous, creative, & resilient in carving a space of #freedom. Solidarity with Book Punch

My keen knowledge of statistics tells me these feet are merely suffering from survivorship bias.

1/ Tai Kwun’s art book fair will not be returning this year, the Central arts hub has confirmed to HKFP. hongkongfp.com/2025/11/19/t...

"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged." www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...

the floridafication of hong kong continues www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

love to see it

wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)

scmp readers are really getting 'cum' all over its pages these days

okay buddy

24 hours of LegCo election news: • 68-year old man arrested for telling people not to vote info.gov.hk/gia/general/... • Police investigate damaged posters in Sheung Wan hk01.com/article/6029... • 70-year old woman arrested for tearing posters in Shek Kip Mei thestandard.com.hk/hong-kong-ne...

get this guy 👇

🇭🇰 vs 🇸🇬 Today is the day - 8 pm KO at Kai Tak Stadium! If you don’t have a ticket, live broadcast via RTHK 32. There are also confirmed public screenings in several malls, incl Olympian, Citywalk, Tuen Mun Town Plaza, and One North. And in LONDON (The Volley, 211 Old St)

to whom specifically, pray tell, do you think the scmp editorial board refers when they say 'some'?