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HONG KONG UPDATE 10 NOV 2019

“Shopping” flashmob protests

1400: Calls to go “shopping” in plazas across city from 2pm.

1433: Tuen Mun. Small group of protesters begin to block road in Tuen Mun.

1450: Shatin. Small group of masked people smashing up Shatin MTR and a Maxim’s (pro-China) bakery shop.

1500: MTR - Shatin stn closed.

1504: Tuen Mun. Group of some 20 protesters in Tuen Mun running around and blocking two roads. Appear to have no intention to confront police.

1512: Tuen Mun. One man was subdued just now in Siu Lun Court Tuen Mun when the small group of protesters were running away from riot police chasing behind.

1524: Shatin. MTR stn closed shortly before 3pm, riot police inside, multi-district flash protests beginning to take place.

1525: Jordan. Police caught moving bricks onto patrol cars today. No one knows how they are going to use them.

1526. Tsuen Wan. Some citizens regroup to vandalise Starbucks, locally owned by the pro-Beijing Maxim’s Group, inside Tsuen Wan Plaza.

1527: Tuen Mun. A team of riot police entered Siu Lun Court in Tuen Mun, appearing to search the protesters who fled this direction. Residents shouting angrily from upstairs “This is private’s property!” But ignored.

1527: Causeway Bay. Heavy police presence, stop and search of young ppl, at least 1 person in black arrested at entrance to Times Square.

1528: Tuen Mun. Riot police pointed long gun at buildings in Siu Lun Court in Tuen Mun after an object was hurled from height, irritating more residents.

1531: Kowloon Tong. A branch of Simply Life (another Maxim’s-owned franchise) at Festival Walk was vandalised with graffiti reading “sucking up to Communists” and “blue-ribbons shop”.

1533: Shatin. New Town Plaza has calmed after riot police left the private mall. A heart made out of origami cranes lies beneath an image of Chow Tsz-lok, who died on Friday after succumbing to injuries sustained from a fall near police clearance of a protest.

1535: Tuen Mun. Riot police have entered the private residence of Siu Lun Court to make at least one arrest.

1535: Tsuen Wan. Before departing a footbridge, riot police fired one canister of tear gas, hitting and burning the skin of a NowTV reporter. Fired tear gas without black flag warning towards civilians and press on footbridge, from a police vehicle with an open door. The reporter was at a safe vantage point, but police deliberately aimed up at her.

1538: Tuen Mun. Security guard trying to keep riot police away from the private residence and angry tenants.

1544: Tsuen Wan. The NowTV reporter tells the media that the police fired the tear gas cannister upwards, directly at filming reporters on a footbridge, from ground-level, before leaving the scene. 

1546: Tsuen Wan. A pro-Beijing woman has slapped a local protesting resident in front of a media, causing a commotion.

1548: Tsuen Wan. In the midst of the commotion, one protester sprayed black spray paint onto the pro-Beijing woman's face. Riot police are arriving.

1552: Tsuen Wan. Storming up the footbridge, riot police have randomly arrested one young man dressed in black, who does not appear to be the protester who sprayed the pro-Beijing woman's face. An older man next to him appears to be shouting "he's my son!"

1557: Shatin. Protesters attempt to block an escalator leading to New Town Plaza, from which riot police have entered the private mall on previous occasions.

1600: Tseung Kwan O. Riot police have entered PopCorn mall shortly before 4pm.

1601: Tin Shui Wai. Some arrests have also reportedly been made for unknown reasons.

1610: Tuen Mun. Siu Lun Court residents’ consumed with rage. “Rapists!” They shouted at riot police retreating from the residential complex.

1625: Kowloon Tong. Festival Walk appears to be the most middle-class mall to see protests on Sunday. Riot police have arrived at an exit, and middle-aged shoppers are angrily telling them they should produce their IDs and not cover their faces.

1630: Kowloon Tong. The appearance of riot police has caused a competition at Festival Walk's ice-skating rink to be urgently suspended. "How will you compensate the organisers?" shoppers ask.

1636: Kowloon Tong. Inside Festival Walk, several men claiming to be police arrested two young people after an apparent vandalism attempt. They refused to show their warrant cards, and shouted "your cameras are offensive weapons" to reporters.

1639: Kowloon Tong. Some of the plainclothes people claiming to be police - but refusing to show their warrant cards - have dyed hair (police not allowed to have dyed hair), and refuse to say what charges the young people have been arrested for.

1641: Kowloon Tong. At one point, several protesters attacked the plainclothes people claiming to be police, causing chaos and de-arrest of 1 person. Uniformed riot police have since entered Festival Walk. At least 5 brutally arrested and beaten up. Police claim “used [the] minimum necessary force to [carry out] the arrest action”.

Unknown: Kowloon Tong. A video circulating online shows police at Festival Walk earlier on Sunday afternoon baton-charging shoppers down a moving escalator, several storeys high above the basement floors of the mall.

https://twitter.com/HongKongFP/status/1193481351007092736

Unknown: Kowloon Tong. Press ordered by police to go downwards while on upward-travelling escalator. Journos told cops they would return downward after reaching the top but police push them, nearly causing the journos from tumbling backwards.

1642: Kowloon Tong. Riot police brutally arrested one person in Festival Walk, causing heavy bleeding from his head in the process. His entire head was covered in sticky blood and there is enormous pool on the floor. Police keep shifting him around despite his injuries.

1647: Kowloon. Another person brutally arrested by riot police in Festival Walk appears to be semi-conscious, only moving his right arm. 

1651: Tuen Mun. Roadblocks by citizens at junction of Heung Sze Wui Rd and Ho Pong St.

1652: Tsuen Wan. Police left Citywalk and concierge desk is facing complaints from shoppers about their lack of action against earlier police entry. Ppl in Citywalk use objects from inside shops to block escalators and other entrances to slow police down if they return.

1653: Tuen Mun. Riot police have disembarked on a Tuen Mun highway to clear makeshift roadblocks made out of rubbish. 

1700: Causeway Bay. SOGO Department Store closed at 5pm on Sunday, despite the protest rally inside being peaceful and riot police not entering the premises.

1700: Tsuen Wan. Tear gas, multiple rounds.

1700: Shatin. MTR stn closes without any warning again. Ms Joy Luk, the first blind lawyer in HK, is present for legal assistance and proceeds to lie right below the lowering shutter to delay the closing.

1703: Kowloon Tong. Riot police are now ordering shoppers to leave the large Festival Walk mall complex. Many middle-class shoppers heckle them. 

Posted 1714: Shatin. Hundreds of residents at the Jat Min Chuen village shut door on police and call them “murderers” and “rapists”. They applaud when police leave. Several have been arrested in village.

1719: Tsuen Wan. Citizens on footbridge near Tsuen Wan Town Hall shout at police, some officers wanted to talk back but were held back by colleagues.

1727: Tsuen Wan. More tear gas fired.

1728: Tsuen Wan. Entrance doors closest to Tsuen Wan Town Hall are blocked off as riot police are visible on the footbridge outside.

1729: Kowloon Tong. Riot police are sweeping through Festival Walk floor-by-floor from top to bottom, ordering all people inside to leave. 

1730: Tuen Mun. Riot police are marching through Tuen Mun.

1800: Tsuen Wan. 2 men arrested outside Citywalk when police fire tear gas and swamp towards the mall.

1803: Tsuen Wan. Tear gas, few rounds. Tear gas near elderly home, citizens shout at elderly to close windows. Enter Citywalk again. But citizens inside had plenty of opportunity to leave so none are left by the time police clear blockages at top of escalator. 

1810: Government releases statement defending the police response as reasonable in the face of destructive acts.

1824: Kowloon Tong. At Festival Walk, riot police forced shoppers to leave at threat of pepper spray. 

1825: Tsuen Wan. Riot police march through Yeung Uk Road, Tsuen Wan at 6pm. 

1834: Tsuen Wan.Police have fired tear gas on multiple occasions in Tsuen Wan on Sunday. The district appears to have seen the highest number of arrests. 

1836: Tsuen Wan. Protesters used furniture from stores in Citywalk to barricade doors and stop riot police from entering. 

1838: Kowloon Tong. Festival Walk has announced that it has closed for the day, two hours after a police operation began inside and they began dispersing shoppers.

1846: Tsuen Wan. Tear gas fired into sports playground of primary school.

1857: Tuen Mun. Water cannon truck is spotted.

1900: Tsuen Wan. More tear gas.

1908: Tsuen Wan. Ppl outside Citywalk pelt departing police vans with plastic bottles and an umbrella.

1909: Tsuen Wan. Only footbridge has police, 2 rounds tear gas.

1922: MTR - Ma On Shan stn closed.

1927: Tsuen Wan. Tear gas on Tak Ho Rd and Sha Tsui Rd.

1932: Central. A Christian vigil is taking place for deceased 22-year-old student Chow Tsz-lok at Central's Chater Garden on Sunday evening.

1934: Central. Hundreds are gathered at the Chater Garden vigil, as protests continue across other residential neighbourhoods in Hong Kong.

1948: Tsuen Wan. Tear gas. Restaurant workers and small children have been affected by the incessant tear gas in Tsuen Wan on Sunday evening, the fumes of which blew into restaurants, as the district faces a near-lockdown.

1945: Mongkok. Riot police arrived to remove roadblocks set up by protesters on Nathan Road.

1950: Tear gas continues.

2000: Tsuen Wan. Outside Citywalk mall, riot police in white civilian vans retreat after firing tear gas earlier.

2009: Central. Mourners take turns to lay flowers to Chow Tsz-lok at Central's Chater Garden.

2010: Tsuen Wan. More roadblocks have been set up across Tsuen Wan using rubbish bins and even bicycles, around Chung On Street and Sha Tsui Road.

2046. Mongkok. Police fired their water cannon near Soy Street.

2105: Mongkok. Water cannon sprayed bystanders in Soy Street.

2110: Central. At Central’s Chater Garden, it was announced citing sources that Chow Tsz-lok’s family has decided to donate his organs.

2116: Tsuen Wan. Riot police forced a McDonalds that had closed its gates to open up, searched and interrogated everyone inside, and arrested 2-3 ppl, including the manager, because he refused the police entry at first.

2123: Tsuen Wan. Firefighters arrive at McDonald’s as someone appears to be unwell inside. To drive home the point that the ppl despise the police, bystanders cheer the firefighters and paramedics.

2125: Tsuen Wan. Tear gas at Tai Ho Rd.

2132: Tsuen Wan. Ppl detained and searched. Unclear if any arrests made.

2144: Tsuen Wan. Police charge down Sha Tsui Rd and Chuen Lung St. 1 arrest, arrestee was grabbed from behind and tackled to ground before being subdued by 3 officers.

Posted 2200: Sheung Shui. A group of youths playing basketball in Ching Ho Estate have been arrested for unlawful assembly.

2203: Tsuen Wan. Lady pepper sprayed at point blank range during verbal argument with police.

2212: Tseung Kwan O. 2 arrested.

2256: Mongkok. Tear gas. 1 subdued.

Posted 2306: Kowloon Tong. Online rumour of death at Festival Walk, paramedics sent for further investigation. Journos follow. 

2315. Kowloon Tong. Paramedics find nothing and leave.

2336: Tsuen Wan. Police depart ad indiscriminately fire numerous rounds of tear gas at Chuen Long St bus stop. Many passengers and pedestrians suffer.

Posted 2345: Kowloon Tong. Securities refuse entry to reporters. Masked police guard exit, insist all exits closed and no one is injured/dead.

11 Nov 2019 0035: Mongkok. Police fire pepper balls and possibly a rubber bullet into a group of journos. Journos turn and flee as they aim and fire directly.

0040: Mongkok. Police fire tear gas and more pepper balls at journos. 1 canister hits a journo. Only journos and first aiders present.

0051: Mongkok. Water cannon on Soy St.

0059: Mongkok. More teargas, water cannon and rubber bullets down Soy St. Ppl still eating on outdoor tables literally feet away. They cough and retch.

Posted 0103: Kowloon Tong. Paramedics return to search mall and all questions from journos met with security guard’s non-response. The security head leads the whole group around and around and around Festival Walk aimlessly while not answering their questions and smiling mockingly at them, causing public anger over his attitude as it is livestreamed. He thinks he is very smart eh? He doesn’t know he has just cost his boss millions of dollars by offending a huge portion of the city’s population... Paramedics also confused about info and refuse to answer qns from press until they are sure. Whether anyone died at Festival Walk remains unanswered.

0108:  Mongkok. Foam round fired directly at journos and first aiders. Police keep firing down Soy St but line of sight obscured by a covered pedestrian tunnel.

Police announce 88 arrests on 10 Nov.

0126: Unknown. A man in plainclothes points his pistol at citizens that are just crossing the road. Is he police, undercover, triad, illegal owner of guns? NO ONE KNOWS. One day they will not just point but will also shoot.

0147: HKU. Lee Shau Kee Hall warden confirms 1 HKU student arrested on campus for criminal damage. Lots of riot police stationed at campus now near St John’s College. It’s illegal for them to do that.

0159: HKU. Blue flag, police allege students participating in illegal assembly on their own campus. Problem - HK law says that students on campus do not constitute an illegal assembly.

0205: HKU. Riot police deploy pepper spray at students. On their own campus. That’s like beating you in your own house. 1 students pushed to ground.

0400: Prince Edward. Massive column of police vehicles scream south down the area with sirens on.

0430: Prince Edward. This column comes wailing past again in another lap.

[mtstapestry]

History repeats itself: 1989 vs 2019

Please save Hong Kong, as Hongkongers are now facing serious police violence🆘

Synthesis of Police Violence in 11/11

SaiWanHo: shooting two people with live bullets; Tear Gas (TG) Buffet; pepper-spraying civilians; aiming the upper floors of buildings with gun; breaking into the Holy Cross Church to arrest people

CUHK: TG Buffet; driving a car to hit the crowd; leaving plenty of cartridges, as at least 2 students got shot by sponge grenades, and firing bean bag rounds

TungChung: reported to have live bullets fired

ShaTin: RP fired live bullets in Hilton Plaza; STS entered the CPC’s Railway station

KwaiFong: driving a motorcycle to hit people; pointing the pedestrians on the overpass with a gun

MongKok: firing live bullet(s)

SheungShui: a person got shot at eye; TG Buffet in the city hall; TG on the overpass

HKPU: breaking in the campus; TG Buffet; student got shot by bean bag round;

HKU: breaking in the campus; threatening people with gun; firing TG

YuenLong: burning plastics nearby the Pak Kau College

ChoiHung: TG Buffet; firing rubber bullets to disperse the civilians; 2 gunshots were heard

WongTaiSin: threatening people with gun and complaining insufficiency of live bullets fired in Sai Wan Ho; after the two daughters of that police firing in Sai Wan Ho left the school, police fired TG inside the campus

Tate’s Cairn Tunnel: setting fire

KwunTong: arresting candidate; beating up a girl having no resistance

TseungKwanO: TG Buffet in kindergarten and elementary school; aiming civilians with a shotgun; pepper-spraying in market

HungHom: firing TG into a bus

Central: TG Buffet; firing rubber bullets and bean bag rounds

TaiPo: TG Buffet

TinShuiWai: TG Buffet

There are also enormous RP on alert with TG and guns in all the other districts

Blue Ribbon’s Conor

Clapping to appreciate the police’s shooting people, right after the shot in Sai Wan Ho

Pouring strong acid from the building to a high school student in Kwai Fong

A middle-aged male attacked civilians with a knife in Ngau Chi Wan

Bros&Sisses setting up the Road Blocks in Mong Kok were snitched

An outraged male teacher in Buddhist Sin Tak College exerted violence to a student

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The taste of a blue sex angel

Next I would take her and one of her best friends with smaller but firm breasts but much better appearance. She knew she had to keep my interest in her by surprising me, 3P with two girls are just the beginning. Although she had a E/F cup that is a monstrous in its size and it is very firm just like her position against the Anti-Extradition movement. She never experienced so much abuse of her breasts like clapping, slapping, candle waxing, beating up with hands and kicking it like a football. In Cantonese we call an affair took place outside a love context between opposite sex “Friendship match” , and in soccer game each game is about 80 minutes without accounting the break inbetween. So in that wild night I scored more than ten shots first in anus then in her mouthwatering cunt. She is so excited that she urinated on her bed while she t up, she once done it to one of the virgin friend she had; now I return the favor by fucking in such a “barbarian” and forceful manner she never imagine a yellow ribbon Pro-Dem supporter would do. So are she looking for dicks to suck and thick  and strong sticks to disrupt her meatly connection between the most important female organ to the outside just nearby the hole for her to release her denatured protein when she aids a Pan-Democratic district Councillor, I very much think so.

When this 32 years “young” lady took an interest in me there was no need for any formal courtship process, I am glad that my friend told me that. And he said he is not interested in her in anyway due to her political positions. She is young in the sense when I am penetrating her up and down with she dressed up in Secondary school uniform I felt like I was fucking a classmate when I am in the Secondary school. That gave me endless energy and strongest motivation to reach the peak of orgasm for both of us. I just realize when a girl is dreaming of having sex with me a lot of times, whatever I did to her in the bed would only result in orgasm.

She then tempted me for me to tied her up and fuck her as if she is a little girl who are yet to reach puberty. It is very sick when I avoid caressing her breasts but it felt even greater than normal fucking.  

Before this event happened to me she already sent me many signals like saying she owes a lot of money when losing Mahjong games, let me play with her hands to see various lines on her palms, doesn’t mind when I accidentally touch her back, show me the way to the bus station to go to Shatin….etc. It is when she showed me the bus station to Shatin I found the right opportunity to strike by taking her hand and trying to kiss her. She is shocked and feeling blissful. You know that I am interested in being your girlfriend?  

Yes, I can read minds like you reading my face to tell my fortune.

You touch my hand on purpose?

I want to do much more than that. (When my hand swift though her breasts on top of her dress.) And your hands felt good.   

She didn't even pretend to be shy and let me hold her hand tightly. I pull her hand closer to my zipper while it hides a real tiger waiting to tear her into pieces and make her willingly bear my children. She pulled this hand away with a look: No this time.

So you want me to be my boyfriend?

I knew that you have many bf, I want to be the one who gave you greatest pleasure in and out that would drive you crazy all night long. 

You want to be bf or you just want to fuck me?

All lovers fuck the other half, that is why you are a cunt and a slut. I want you to be my slut and my private toilet which I will shower you with my lovely juice all over.

Would you marry me if I got pregnant?

I will fuck till you had a miscarriage then fuck your pregnant once again.

You can do that with your tightly stick? I don’t see you as a physical person.

I choose whom to be intimate and whom to be really “physical”. I am sure that your opening are tight enough to hold my HUGE thing. 

She flashed, this complement is something she never heard from any bf nor SP. Maybe she is already wet and ready to be penetrated, she is a horny female dog. One just can’t imagine how sexually demanding she could be, it is like she could have ten intercourse in a row yet still felt not completely satisfied. Thus her bf comes and go: Her breasts are surely good enough to fuck and she is excellent at breasts-fuck, then her mouth and her cunt suck dick like a vacuum cleaner.

She said in a low tone with a light voice: I want to have you tonight, you are so sweet to me. Then she took my Android smartphone and added her as another contact in my whatsapp.

I saw her message: “I am wet, my friend.”

“Send me pics or maybe videos to complete my sexual fantasy for you and just you.”

“You want me as a girlfriend? Since I fuck only boyfriend.”

“My stick would be hardest for you, and if you let me fuck you every day and night. Of course you are my woman. Understand?”

“Understood, I am not a virgin.”

“I heard something very unfortunate happened to you when you are young.”

“You knew that already, your friend here is collecting intel on me? Checking me up a long time ago?”

“I want to fuck you the very first moment I saw you, but I don’t know if my friend are interested in you.”

“Friend before the lover?”

“Or one of us fucking your stupid mouth and one of us taking you on the back”.

“How dare you. But I like that. I don’t want to go so far with you until our relationship is stabilized.”

“Stable as the state of CCP or as in HongKong.”

“You son of bitch, making fun of the state and nation.”

“I would torture you real badly in both of your holes. Since you want to be my lover, and all my lovers had to undergone a fucking testing to test your sincerity. You cunt are exploited by uncles in F.1 or younger?”

“ My uncle tied me up and fuck me when I am still a children.”

“ You mean Primary school?”

“ Yes, I was sexually exploited before I reached puberty; those men are very sick. My breasts are barely developed when he forces himself to explode in my mouth then in my cunt. It hurts and hurts a lot and a lot….”

“ Then you learned to enjoy it long before other girls start dating to appease your uncle. What about your parents? Did they know what happened to you? Or are they blind and deaf?”

“ I don’t know, I only knew that whatever I told them it fell to the deaf ear. Would you see as a very dirty girl when I force to learn how to suck dick and I had been rape by those guy many times.”

“ Everyone has a history they don’t want to face.  So you are a very experienced girl who knows how to make a man happy in the bed with all your holes, including your anus?”

“ You are so sweet that this very much a virgin part all belongs to you, I don’t like men putting their dicks or other instruments in either hole. However, when I am very wet I am at your disposal.” 

“ So I will help you get through the past trauma of sexual abuse. You are my lover now, and I would charge the counseling fee of you by “force” you to blowjob me to breast-feed me to facejob me and to torture you endless in the bed until you had some much sperms in your tunnel and womb that dips outside. I will buy you contraceptive pills, and a better way is for you to swallow everything I shoot on you or take it in your ass.”

“ I am your girlfriend now?” “ We are SL now, I would protect all my lovers/SP by not letting the world know about our relationship. I don’t like yellow/blue ribbons to dig up other past. It would be very bad for any development of my political career.”

“ You mean your friends don’t like me to be your gf/SP/SL because of my political positions?”

“ Yes, but our love transcends the political boundary as your love to me seems sincere, I am yet to test this hypothesis physically.”

“ You are such a sweet talker.”

[khlelez]

So Lucas was a part of the Javelin team and was a 2nd runner up in the Shatin District Sports Meet 11-2013. Our Hongkong prince did that 😭😭😭 [Updated] He's also part of the 400 m relay and their team was champ. I'm in love with a talented man. 💙 ©aini_xuxi

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Exhibition Centre Station, Hong Kong

Exhibition Centre Station, Hong Kong Building Development, HK Architecture Project Photos

Exhibition Centre Station in Hong Kong

21 May 2022

Design: Farrells

Location: Hong Kong

Photos: Kris Provoost

Exhibition Centre Station, HK

The East Rail Line Cross-harbour Extension commenced service on 15 May 2022, marking the completion of the Shatin to Central Link project, an important milestone in Hong Kong’s railway development.

The 46-km East Rail Line consists of 16 stations including the new Exhibition Centre Station designed by Farrells. It extends across Victoria Harbour from the core business district on Hong Kong Island, connecting Kowloon and the New Territories to the Lo Wu and Lok Ma Chau border crossings. With the cross-harbour section, the East Rail Line will become the fourth cross-harbour railway, reducing travel time from Hung Hom to Exhibition Centre Station to just five minutes.

Farrells have been involved in the design of the Exhibition Centre Station since 2012.

Located next to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai North, Exhibition Centre Station is a three-level underground station, connecting Hung Hom and Admiralty Stations. The station includes allowance for a future North Island line with convenient cross platform transfers. Farrells designed the station with property enabling works to fully integrate the future topside commercial development and passenger transport interchange. The station’s various entrances are connected and integrated to the elevated footbridge network, as well as being connected to a public transport interchange, Harbour Road Sports Centre and Commercial developments in Wanchai North district, providing greater convenience to railway passengers.

Various elements had been integrated into the design of the station. The site of the station is reclaimed land that was previously part of the harbour. The artwork “Water Memory” by local artist Leung Chi-wo, consisting of 1,200 photos taken of the harbour at different times of the year, is displayed on the walls of all three floors of the station interior that face north, the direction of Victoria Harbour. Exhibition panels detailing the East Rail Line’s history of over 100 years are integrated into the walls and exhibits showcasing the challenges posed during construction are displayed, including the casing of a World War II bomb discovered in the course of excavation work.

The opening of the East Rail Line cross-harbour extension, coupled with the full commissioning in June last year of the Tuen Ma Line, where Farrells provided the architectural design of Sung Wong Toi and To Kwa Wan MTR Stations, marks the completion of the whole Shatin to Central Link project. The East Rail Line extension provides members of the public with a more integrated railway network, commuting convenience and a more closely knit community, strengthening Hong Kong’s public transportation system with the railway as the backbone.

“We have helped to deliver the Client’s vision with Arup as the lead consultant and created an important interchange station and connector. The East Rail Line allows residents in the New Territories to travel conveniently and directly to Central without changing trains and saving time. Exhibition Centre station will activate and energise the new waterfront linear park which now connects the entire waterfront along the north of the Hong Kong Island. The increased ridership, convenience and efficiency of the fourth harbour crossing is the most sustainable form of transport and further enhances the fully connected rail network system,” said Christopher Yee, Project Director at Farrells.

As part of and in making way for the development of the East Rail Line extension, Farrells was also the architect in the re-provisioning works of the Harbour Road Sports Centre, Wan Chai Indoor Swimming Pool; enhancement works at existing Police Sports and Recreation Club; reprovisioning of a new Police Officers’ Club on the existing use site integrated with the South Ventilation Building; and reprovisioning of Wan Chai Sports Ground.

Architects: Farrells – https://farrells.com/

About Farrells Farrells is an international firm of architects, urban planners and designers, founded by Sir Terry Farrell in 1965. With headquarters in London, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, the firm is a group of diverse talent that has delivered a broad range of projects worldwide. We work at all scales and sectors; including urban masterplans, cultural, civic, transport-related infrastructure, residential and mixed-use commercial complexes. We are committed to creating innovative, social, and transformative architecture that sustainably connects people, community and the environment.

Photography: Kris Provoost

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Location: HK, China, eastern Asia

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MineCity: The Community Dream Chaser concluded with huge success；Projects enlighten youngsters to creatively rejuvenate local community

MineCity: The Community Dream Chaser concluded with huge success；Projects enlighten youngsters to creatively rejuvenate local community

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 25 March 2021 – The “MineCity” project, organised by Breakthrough and fully supported by Zurich Insurance (Hong Kong) (“Zurich”), leverages the popular software Minecraft to encourage youngsters for exploring possibilities to reshape urban space in the community. In its third year, MineCity expanded its virtual community coverage to Shatin and North District.…

[mingdi14]

Day 2 Hong Kong: Architecture 101 - the shapes & lines of Shatin & Mekong Districts. （在 Sha Tin, Hong Kong）

[savinghongkong]

Hong Kong Police stormed into District Council Chamber to stop Elected District Councillors from protesting against turning an public estate to quarantine site

Riot police stormed into and formed cordon at Shatin District Council chamber to escort Hong Kong Secretary for Food and Health Chui Tak-yi. District Councillors were protesting against turning a public estate into Coronavirus quarantine camp without consultation. Credit to the source

[the50-person]

HONG KONG UPDATE 9 DEC 2019

0600: Tsuen Wan. No one out despite 6am call time for a loosely planned Dawn Movement. Ppl chiding one another on Telegram for not showing up. A few police cars roaming arnd.

0800: Telegram groups favoured by hardliners are pushing for “blossom everywhere” commuter disruption, but so far not much sign of it beyond reports of a few objects on overland lines causing some delays. Tbh it’s winter, and everyone just had a rally on 8 Dec, so that might be a reason. Also ppl are saying that a resumption of the tactics of Oct and Nov might backfire due to the great scale of disruption and the eventual university sieges that occurred. There is much talk about looking into new options like labour action through formation of unions.

0823: Alr at least 7 arrests reported around HK, all of young ppl, incl a young girl videographed on a police van. She is not yet 16 and was taken to number plate AM6881.

0915-0930: Lam Tin. Riot police arrested at least one person (a man) after some masked ppl blocked both directions of Kai Tin Rd outside Kai Tin Shopping Centre. Stand News reported that roadblocks were cleared at 9:15am and most police departed, but they suddenly came back to tackle a white-shirted man onto the ground 15 minutes later.

1043: Wanchai. In light of ppl calling for general strike online, groups of heavily armed HK police patrol around Wanchai during morning school hours. Young students (lower primary students) look visibly scared by their presence. Next day after massive approx 1 million march,  HK police threaten young school kids with live machine guns. This is the gov’s and police’s response. Then again, Chief Exec Carrie Lam’s response last night was essentially a non-response: 1. Condemn any damage caused 2. Police did not do anything wrong

1315: Citizens organised roadblocks to halt traffic at 10 different districts in the morning in anger after the HK gov gave little response to 8 Dec’s massive march other than saying it “proved HKers still had the freedom of assembly” (which is literal BS). Minor road disruptions were reported in areas such as Tsuen Wan, Mong Kok and Lam Tin, with reports that some objects were thrown onto rail tracks near Shatin MTR station. In some areas such as Tsuen Wan, drivers and local residents cleared the roadblocks themselves, while riot police arrived quickly to others.

1347: Shatin. Riot police stopping and searching young ppl during lunch hours.

Posted 1606: Hundreds of pro-democracy lawmakers and district councillors have urged HK gov to scrap a proposed pay rise for the police. HK gov denies the request without explaining how the request is a violation of any rules and laws. Police have requested that their pay raise be separated from other items as they should receive a higher hike in salary. They asked for a minimum of 7% pay rise, higher than the gov pay raise of 5.26% for civil servants in the lower and middle salary bands. Ridiculous. Firstly, police have not been policing properly, they have engaged in severe and horrendous human rights abuses of all kinds (m*urder, r*ape, framing, sending ppl to China to be locked for literally eternity, tor*ture); their rating is the lowest out of all disciplinary forces with 40% respondents giving 0 marks. Secondly, civil servants in lower and middle salary bands are diploma or fresh grads, who ought to properly receive a higher salary due to qualifications. Police are the lowest educated with their Yijin diploma, which means that they do not qualify for such a high salary according to the tiers used in human resources. This has nothing to do with elitism or anything. This is what we call fair treatment - the pay you have should fairly reflect the qualification you possess and the efforts you have put in all these years to gain them. You tell me someone who works their ass off and pays so much tuition fees to attain their degree should get worse treatment than someone who passes the easy-as-hell Yijin diploma? You know how easy Yijin is? It’s literally a no-brainer like omg, police are ridiculous and unfair and they are getting greedier every single day.

1719: At Monday afternoon's police press conference, police also said they arrested 12 people in Sheung Shui in the morning for alleged possession of tools that officers suspected they would use to puncture vehicle tyres. Police public relations chief superintendent Kwok Ka-chuen added that officers had been deployed to 24 MTR stations and 25 other locations across HK from 4am onwards, in anticipation of the well-publicised morning roadblocks.

1735: Cases of those arrested late Saturday 7 Dec night — after police raided addresses in Tsuen Wan and Tin Hau, allegedly finding fireworks and a pistol — are being heard at the Eastern Magistracy on Monday afternoon. The court will only decide whether to grant bail. Only two of the five arrestees from police raids in Tsuen Wan and Tin Hau were granted bail at a heavily-guarded Eastern Magistrates' Court on Monday afternoon, with the other three remanded until another court decision - perhaps until trial. The first defendant's lawyer told the court that during the raid, police shut off the lights, beat him and forced him to unlock his phone. Those seated in court reported the prosecution then presented the first defendant's phone messages as evidence to the court.  Lmao are police trying to create the classic Yue Fei maligned case of “perhaps there was a crime”

2331: Mongkok. Police are stopping and searching young people in Mong Kok on Monday night, after makeshift roadblocks were reported on Shantung Street earlier in the evening.

10 Dec 2019 0009: Mongkok. Riot police remove roadblocks after they are intermittently placed onto the streets of Mong Kok. At least one arrest has been reported on Monday night after stop-and-searches of young people.

0130: Mongkok. A man lies injured in Mong Kok at 1:30am. Bystanders say he was being stopped and searched by riot police, when due to a dispute, they suddenly shot him with a pepper ball in the head from point-blank range, reportedly hitting the eye. The seriousness of the man reportedly shot with a police projectile in the head or eye on Mong Kok's Shantung Street junction remains unclear.

0140: Mongkok. An ambulance arrived at the Mong Kok location 10 minutes later, but the man remains closely guarded by riot police. Another man was pepper-sprayed in the face after leaving the police cordon too slowly.

0151: Mongkok. The second man pepper-sprayed by riot police in Mong Kok is being treated by first-aid personnel.

At least 7 ppl arrested in Mongkok in the night, several others in other locations.

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2019aug5 • 罷工不罷醫 !!!! Queen Mary Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, United Christian Hospital, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Caritas Medical Center, Tseung Kwan O Hospital, Princess Margaret Hospital, North Lantau Hospital, Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital, Tun Mun Hospital, Ruttonjee Hospital, North District Hospital, Kwong Wah Hospital, Prince of Wales Hospital, Pok Oi Hospital, Shatin Hospital, Hong Kong Children’s Hospital... Applause to all those participating hospitals. More importantly, applause to all the doctors and nurses and medical professionals willing to stand up for this righteous cause! Since NURS101, we’ve been taught the importance of patient privacy, where is that now? We’ve been taught all patients deserve equal care, regardless of race, ethnic, gender, age, religion, and political views, and yet we get penalized for doing so? All those injured by the very people, the police that have sworn oaths to protect, and too afraid to seek medical assistance? Or when medical help is forced to back off despite severely injured needing immediate assistance? They are forcing us to disregard our code of conducts and conscience, but we are a professional body and we are trying so hard to withhold our beliefs despite being used as an excuse, and forced to take the bullet. Even in a strike, they have chosen to handle it in the most organized, considerate, unobtrusive and professional manner, minimizing the impact on all the patients and their colleagues, what more can you ask? Proud of you, all my nursing counterparts in Hong Kong, I regret not being able to stand by you all. HONG KONG, STAY STRONG! #罷工不罷醫 https://www.instagram.com/p/B0x_ZHEnGrp/?igshid=10mu7my0xaof8

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HK protesters march, withdraw money from Bank of China

HK protesters march, withdraw money from Bank of China Hong Kong protesters on Saturday continued through different means to oppose the controversial extradition legislation, despite Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor’s Tuesday description of the bill as “dead.” On Saturday evening, hundreds of armed police were deployed to disperse the protesters in Sheung Shui with their batons and long shields after thousands of protesters ended a march at 5pm. Police also used pepper sprays against the protesters. North District Parallel Imports Concern Group, established in 2012 to monitor how Hong Kong’s North District was affected by the incoming Chinese tourists and individual traders, was to hold a march titled “Recover Sheung Shui” in the North District Sports Ground in New Territories from 3:30pm on Saturday. It expected about 2,000 people would join the march. Apart from the main theme of opposing the extradition bill, the group also calls for the government to curb parallel trading activities, which it said seriously affect the livelihood of local residents in Sheung Shui and Tai Po. Organisers ended the march at about 5pm. They said a total of 30,000 people had joined the march while the police said there were 4,000 at its peak. After the march, thousands of protesters occupied Sun Wan Road in front of Landmark North, a shopping mall opposite to the Sheung Shui MTR station. Some protesters were staying on Lung Sum Avenue and Lung Wan Street. Armed police started dispersing the crowd from 6pm, RTHK reported. At 8pm, more armed police arrived while a lot of protesters decided to go home as they planned to join the anti-extradition march in Shatin in New Territories on Sunday.

After the march ended at 5pm, masked protesters continue to gather on streets in Sheung Shui. Photo: RTHK

Armed police try to disperse the crowd. Photo: RTHK

Some shops are damaged. Photo: RTHK

Parallel trading activities – a bonus issue for some multitaskers who have protested against the extradition bill – are active in Shek Wu Hui in Sheung Shui in New Territories. Photo: Google Maps Parallel imports to Hong Kong from the mainland are not pirated or counterfeited goods; they have been manufactured by – or under the authority of – whoever owns the intellectual property rights. Rather, the dispute focuses on the grievances of Hong Kong business persons who object to competition by parallel importers. “There is no universal consensus on the legal issue relating to parallel importation, and whether it should be restricted is a controversial issue with endless debates,” says HG.org, a specialist legal publication. As the day’s activities revealed, multitasking Hongkongers have begun to use the protests to agitate on other issues they have with the mainland, whether closely related to extradition or not. Queues were seen at certain branches of the Bank of China (Hong Kong) in the morning after netizens called for a money-withdrawal campaign to stress-test the cash storage situation of the Chinese bank.

A queue was seen out side the Tai Po branch of the Bank of China. Photo: RTHK Since last week, netizens have been promoting the campaign as a way to urge the Hong Kong government to “withdraw,” not only suspend, the extradition bill. They also called for the retraction of “riot” characterization of the June 12 protest, the release of the arrested anti-extradition protesters, the establishment of an independent commission to investigate the police brutality and Lam’s resignation. Over the past week, an online poster had been circulated, saying that Hong Kong citizens should avoid depositing money in the Bank of China as the bank is facing the risks of cash shortage due to non-performing loan problems in China. The poster said the warning was issued by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA). On Thursday, HKMA said in a statement that such online claims are “untrue and totally unfounded.” It said the warning was falsely attributed to the HKMA. It urged the public to be discerning when dealing with online information. On Friday, netizens said on discussion groups that the Bank of China had taken the abnormal precaution of ordering all staff to work on Saturday. An unnamed Bank of China staff member told the Hong Kong Economic Journal that the bank’s staffers were verbally told by their supervisors to work on Saturday. Citing bank staff members, Ming Pao reported that the Bank of China increased manpower on Saturday for the launch of “silver bonds,” which target elderly customers. The report said some staff were relocated to the branches in Sheung Shui in New Territories, where protests would be staged in the afternoon. Bank of China’s spokespersons did not respond to media enquiries. Read: HK protesters moot Bank of China ‘stress test’ after latest clashes Read: HSBC cashes in on growing anti-BoC sentiment According to Radio Television Hong Kong, some customers were seen queuing up in the Tai Po branch of the Chinese bank in the morning but not in many other branches such as in Sham Shui Po and Sheung Shui. Other media reports said some police took pictures at some of the bank’s branches. In another case of protesters’ mixed motives, on July 6 local groups called for a “Recover Tuen Man” march to oppose the extradition law – as well as “indecent” singers in Tuen Mun Park. These singers, who came from mainland China, with some of them being new immigrants, were seen dancing in short shirts in the entertainment area of the park in order to get money tips from elderly local men. Accused of making too much noise, the women were reportedly backed by some profit-making organizers. Local pressure groups had been complaining about the situation for more than decade but failed to make any change. Despite some clashes in the crowd, the latest “Recover Tuen Man” protest was called successful as the District Council on Tuesday passed a motion to stop providing an entertainment area in the park. Read: Residents rally against HK’s ‘Singing Aunties’ The anti-extradition law protests have extended to different districts in Hong Kong as protesters set up “Lennon Walls” in public areas to express their opinions. However, some volunteers who helped monitor the walls were attacked by local residents in some districts, including Yau Tong and Tai Po. Starry Lee Wai-king, chairperson of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong, which is a pro-Beijing political group, said posting memo papers on public walls is illegal but people with different views should stay calm. Read: Retired HK cops held for allegedly assaulting protesters Read: More clashes break out at ‘Lennon Walls’ in HK On the afternoon of July 7, anti-extradition protesters marched from Tsim Sha Tsui to the Hong Kong West Kowloon Station – the terminus for high-speed trains to Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Organizers said more than 230,000 people took part in the protest, while police said up to 56,000 attended in Kowloon. The march was aimed to tell the mainland shoppers in Tsim She Tsui about the anti-extradition campaign. After the march ended in the evening, protesters walked to Mongkok, occupied key roads and held a late-night standoff with the police in the district. Police dispersed the protesters with batons and shields with some people suffering head injuries and bleeding. The police were slammed for using excessive force at protestors and journalists. Read: Bloody clashes after latest rally in Hong Kong Read: Citizens planning protests in HK’s 18 districts On Friday evening, hundreds of students gathered at Sun Yat-sen Place on the campus of the University of Hong Kong to oppose the extradition bill. They said they were disappointed by the statement previously issued by Zhang Xiang, Vice Chancellor and President of the University of Hong Kong, who condemned protesters for storming the Legislative Council on July 1. They then went to Zhang’s apartment. Zhang came out and talked to them for 40 minutes. Zhang reiterated his anti-violence stance but promised that he would not allow police to arrest students in the campus without court orders.

Zhang Xiang (right), Vice Chancellor and President of the University of Hong Kong, talks to the students. Photo: RTHK Published at How has war affected Syria’s oil and gas sector?

Syria’s eight-year war has seen the Damascus regime lose control of key oil fields and caused state hydrocarbon revenues to plummet by billions of dollars. Weak production has forced President Bashar al-Assad’s regime to import oil, but Western sanctions on Damascus and Tehran are hampering incoming tankers. Here’s an overview: Who controls what? In 2013, Syria’s oil reserves were estimated at 2.5 billion barrels, and gas supplies at 241 billion cubic meters (8.5 trillion cubic feet). Control of these is split between the regime and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces who have been fighting the Islamic State group. The US-backed SDF control Syria’s largest oil field in Al-Omar in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, as well as the nearby Tanak and Jafra fields. They also hold the Rmeilan field in the northeastern province of Hassakeh, as well as other smaller ones there and in the northern province of Raqa. The Russia-backed regime, meanwhile, holds the country’s largest gas field in Shaer, as well as those of Sadad and Arak. It also controls some oil fields in Deir Ezzor, Raqa, and the central province of Homs. What’s the damage? Before the war, oil and gas were key to the country’s economy. In 2010, they contributed about 35 percent of export earnings and 20 percent of state revenue, the Syria Report economic publication says. After war broke out in 2011, production plummeted as fighting and bombardment destroyed infrastructure, and the government lost control of its largest fields. International oil companies suspended activities, including to comply with Western sanctions on the regime. Up to $74.2 billion in revenue has been lost in the war, Oil and Mineral Resources Minister Ali Ghanem has said. Crude oil production plunged more than 99 percent between 2010 and 2016, from 385,000 barrels per day to just 2,000, according to figures provided by Ghanem in April. Natural gas production fell 69 percent from 21 million cubic meters per day to just 6.5 million over the same period. But since the regime took back Homs oil and gas fields from IS jihadists in 2017, production has increased to 24,000 bpd for oil and 17 million cubic meters for gas, according to the minister. But this is just 20 percent of Syria’s oil needs, and between 60 and 70 percent of its gas requirements. Are sanctions biting? After production plummeted Damascus had to resort to importing hydrocarbons to fulfill its needs. The Syrian government turned to ally Iran, who opened up a credit line to supply it with oil. But Western sanctions on oil shipping, as well as US punitive measures against Iran, have complicated imports. In November, Washington slapped fresh sanctions on Tehran, accusing it of creating a complex web of Russian cut-out companies and Syrian intermediaries to ship oil to Damascus. From October 2018 to the start of May this year, no oil tanker reached Syria, pro-regime Al-Watan newspaper has reported. A fuel and gas crisis hit regime-held areas this winter and spring, causing the government to take austerity measures. Damascus also accuses Egypt of having closed the key Suez Canal shipping lane to vessels heading to Syria. Last week, Britain detained a tanker carrying Iranian oil on suspicions it was heading to Syria, but Tehran on Sunday denied that was its final destination. Last month, Damascus accused an unnamed foreign entity of “sabotage” of underwater pipelines to its Banyas oil refinery on the Mediterranean. What options for Damascus? With the country’s most important oil fields in the far east still out of reach, Damascus faces two options: strike a deal with the SDF, or military reconquest. The Kurdish-led forces have in the past insisted that any deal with the regime would have to ensure an equal sharing out of oil and gas. Before the war, crude extracted in the east was transferred to either Homs or Banyas to be refined, whereas Syria’s Kurds only have small refineries designed to meet just local needs. Yet the regime taking back military control of the eastern oil fields would allow Syria to be self-sufficient in all petroleum products, according to the oil minister. During the conflict the regime has bought oil from Kurdish and IS-held areas to secure part of its needs, several sources have said. Analysts say revenues from the oil and gas sectors are likely to be key in rebuilding Syria should a peace deal be struck and sanctions lifted so exports can resume.   Read the full article