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🌊Football is back: Fans boo the anthem

Macau to start taking mainland tours

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Sep 25, 2022
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🌊Football is back: Fans boo the anthem

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Yesterday’s student talk was a success (if I do say so myself). I got participants to proofread a paragraph from a longer reportage on Mo Li’s injuries because as an editor, I have no proofreading abilities.

Also my Instagram was bugged for days, so I only have one pic from the event that I could upload. But I think it gets the vibe across pretty well.

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Football fans boo the anthem

After three years of COVID induced hiatus, football fans once again crowded Hong Kong stadium yesterday to watch a test match between Hong Kong and Myanmar. And as soon as the national anthem came on, ten seconds of aggressive booing, followed by chants of “We are Hong Kong”. Police were seen videoing

Hong Kong v Myanmar was the first major sports event since the National Anthem Ordinance was passed in 2020, outlawing insulting behaviour towards the National Anthem. If convicted, you can get a maximum fine of $50,000 and 3 years imprisonment (full ordinance (Inst. A405) here).

Fun fact: the ordinance was written and passed in direct response to Hong Kong football fans booing the anthem after 2014.

In 2015, the Hong Kong Football Association was fined $40,000 after Hong Kong fans threw objects and booed the national anthem during a test match against Qatar. In 2017, China passed their version of the National Anthem Ordinance, but not yet added to HK law, fans at Mong Kok stadium continued to jeer the anthem during a match against Laos. During the height of the protests, in sept 2019, the anthem was booed, and ‘Glory To Hong Kong’ was sung in a Hong Kong v Iran test match at Hong Kong Stadium. Spectators outside the stadium sang along and chanted ‘Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Time’ (this was before it was illegal), and human chains were also formed during half time.

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COVID in Hong Kong

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Hong Kong SAR Government News @newsgovhk
The Centre for Health Protection says it is looking into 3,780 additional locally acquired #COVID19 cases, of which 1,084 were identified through nucleic acid tests and 2,696 via rapid antigen tests
news.gov.hk3.7k local virus cases identifiedThe Centre for Health Protection says it is looking into 3,780 additional locally acquired COVID-19 cases, of which 1,084 were identified through nucleic acid tests and 2,696 via rapid antigen tests.
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COVID-19 in Hong Kong

  • New cases: 3897 (117 imported)

  • Total cases: 1,745,500

  • New deaths: 10,116

  • Total deaths: 10

  • Compulsory Testing locations: 65

Please, just let us eat

Five major F&B associations penned a joint appeal directly to CE John Lee asking for COVID curbs on dining establishments to be urgently eased.

The groups were:

  • Association of Restaurant Managers

  • Hong Kong Federation of Restaurants and Related Trades

  • Association for Hong Kong Catering Services Management

  • Institute of Dining Professionals

  • Hong Kong Japanese Restaurant Association

In the appeal, they asked for seating cap to be eased from 8 to 12, and for the limit of 120 people for banquets and opening hour curfews to be scrapped.

"The epidemic restrictions on catering businesses have remained the same since a round of easing in May”, said the letter “and residents' willingness to spend in restaurants have not been recovering”.

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I want to go to Macau :(

Macau is planning on allowing tours from the Mainland again come November. Macanese CE Io Yat Seng said in a press conference that Mainland tourism is important to the city’s economy and that the Central authorities have given the ok for Macau’s plan.

When asked whether Macau will open up like Hong Kong is trying to, Io said that Macau doesn’t have the authority to make a big change like Hong Kong as they have to more closely follow China’s COVID policy.

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Big rains, little damage

Super typhoon Noru will be skirting around the South China Sea in the coming week, hitting Vietnam in the process. Noru is predicted to stay around 700 miles from HK, bringing sun on Monday followed by showers the days after. Not much more damage is predicted otherwise.

We will, with HKO’s updates, keep everyone updated if it does come closer.

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Moment: Music and Mindfulness is a collaboration between Ponte and music therapist Howard Ho which uses narration and carefully selected classical pieces to combine arts and mindfulness.

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When: 8 Oct, 8pm
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