🌊 Bar owners go on hunger strike
🌊 Bar owners go on hunger strike
6.4.21 | Who will protect our pets from poisoning?
Good morning.
I hope everyone had a restful Easter weekend, for those who celebrate! For those unfamiliar with the cases of dog poisonings at local parks, there have been efforts by caring locals who are putting all paws on deck to protect our pets.
News 🗞️
Pfizer-BioNTech vaccinations resumed on Monday. After BioNTech vaccinations were halted for 12 days due to packaging issues, over 11,000 people (paywalled) got the vaccine on Monday.
Five of the 12 who returned after spending seven months in a Shenzhen prison were mentioned in court. They face charges regarding the 2019 anti-extradition protests and were remanded in custody after their court appearance.
Some of Beijing's loyalists will be able to take Election Committee seats in the occupation-based subsectors along with the seats they already occupy. These loyalists, made of 36 national legislature deputies and 202 advisory body members, will therefore have greater influence (paywalled) in the Committee.
Police make the largest cocaine seizure since 2011. The drug bust seized 700 kilos of cocaine in Sha Tin worth over $900 million.
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Visit
Haw Par Mansion, run by Haw Par Music, is an 85-year-old property in Tai Hang and “one of the few surviving specimens of the Chinese Eclectic style architecture in Hong Kong”. Today and tomorrow they are hosting “Open Days” that are free to the general public.
Attend
Miss concerts and classical music? Then the upcoming Ponte Orchestra and Singers’ concert, Beyond Death: Classical Music Performance, is just for you. Tickets for the show will be available for purchase at the end of April.
Play
In accordance with its “PLAY LIVES” exhibition, Design Spectrum has a public space made for play in Wan Chai, open until 11 April.