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Boy band 'victims' create viral Facebook group

Harbour Times
Jul 7, 2021
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We’ve got some heavier news to report today…but thankfully our first headline is fairly light-hearted. Enjoy!

~ Sze Yu


Facebook group for ‘victims‘ of boy band explodes in popularity

A comedic Facebook page called ‘My Wife Married Mirror and Left My Marriage in Ruins Concern Group’ has become an overnight sensation (paywalled). The group – devoted to husbands who’s wives have been ‘stolen‘ by the boy band Mirror – was founded by RC, a 32-year-old former tour guide.

RC said his wife, whom he has been happily married to for over two years, recently joined Mirror’s fan club, and has become obsessed with everything about them. RC started the ‘My Wife Married Mirror and Left My Marriage in Ruins Concern Group’ with the aim of bringing together other husbands who were suffering the same predicament—in just three days the page has drawn over 200,000 followers, with thousands of husbands joining in to share their stories.

A new Facebook group devoted to husbands whose wives have been ‘stolen’ by the boy band Mirror has become an overnight sensation. Photo: Nora Tam
KMB buses celebrating Anson Lo day via SCMP

In other related news, yesterday was Mirror member Anson Lo’s birthday! His fans paid tens of thousands of dollars to splash his face on KMB buses and light up a cruise ship with a birthday wish.

郵輪公司喺Facebook宣布今晚將會有Anson Lo遊輪喺杏花邨及小西灣海旁一帶出沒
Cruise ship wishing Anson Happy Birthday via Yahoo

COVID news

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Hong Kong SAR Government News @newsgovhk
The Centre for Health Protection says it is investigating one additional #COVID19 case involving a 32-year-old man who arrived from Greece
news.gov.hk1 imported COVID-19 case recordedThe Centre for Health Protection says it is investigating one additional COVID-19 case involving a 32-year-old man who arrived from Greece.
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Coronavirus in Hong Kong

  • New cases: 1 (imported)

  • Total cases: 11,946 cases so far (91 active cases, 212 total deaths, 11,643 total recovered)

Hong Kong expected to extend most social distancing rules. Despite 30 straight days without local infection, health experts still consider the situation to be unstable. Current social distancing measures, due to expire on Wednesday, are expected to largely stay in place for at least another two weeks (paywalled).


Chief Secretary criticises ‘apologists’ of July 1 stabbing

Chief Secretary John Lee accused academics and political commentators of condoning last week’s stabbing of a police officer. He called apologists for terrorism are “sinners for 1,000 years”. Lee also warned public figures (paywalled) that freedom of speech did not absolve them of social and moral responsibilities.

“There are people who tried to play down the adverse consequences and possible harm that the extreme acts could inflict.”

— Chief Secretary John Lee

Former HKU Law dean Johannes Chan Man-mun had previously said that suggesting that residents were promoting terrorism simply by laying flowers was far-fetched. Chan argued that the laying of flowers could instead represent an act of sympathy for the attacker’s plight or an expression of dissatisfaction with the government.


Other updates

Social media accounts of major university LBGTQ+ rights groups have been blocked from WeChat. The pages of groups such as Huazhong University of Science and Technology Gay Pride and Peking University’s ColorsWorld have been removed from the app, sparking fears of LGBTQ-targeted censorship.

Hong Kong lawmaker urges government to build a Chinese Communist Party museum. Non-official Executive Council member and lawmaker Jeffrey Lam believes that the museum would help education the public on the “correct ideology“ and “correct history“ of the CCP.

UK Labour Party urges officials to snub Beijing Olympics. Britain’s main opposition party has urged ministers and the royal family to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics to protest China’s refusal to allow the UN to probe human rights abuse claims.

Pro-democracy activist Andy Li could be facing life imprisonment after his case under the national security law was transferred to Hong Kong’s High Court. He is accused of conspiring with media tycoon Jimmy Lai, Lai’s aide Mark Simon and self-exiled activist Finn Lau to request external forces to impose sanctions on Hong Kong or China.


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