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🌊HK Film Festival in UK Begins

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🌊HK Film Festival in UK Begins

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Mar 19, 2022
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🌊HK Film Festival in UK Begins

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Good morning,

Jasmine put out a meme yesterday which is normally my thing, so I’m also turning the tables (wow) and giving you guys photographs which is her thing - she’s a photojournalist. I make puns and memes (the dignified technical term is shitposter but that’s also an incredibly informal term so you’ll never see it on Tide again).

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Cyril Ma @Cyrildoesthings
Cling film the fun, save for after COVID treats
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10:55 AM ∙ Mar 18, 2022

~ Cyril


On Today’s Tide:

  1. HT Original | The Wanch is reopening!

  2. COVID |

    • Lowest infection rate in weeks

    • Social distancing might relax at 90% vax rate

    • Extra tests required for Mainland Travel

  3. Culture | HK Film Festival in London so popular, it crashed servers

  4. Events

  5. Greater China |

    • President Xi urges cooperation with US on Ukraine

    • China reports first COVID deaths in years

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The Wanch is back

Special free news

In case you missed it, we did an article with John Prymmer, owner of The Wanch, earlier in the week. Got a message earlier from Howard McKay, one of the original owners, about some interesting history too. Will be updating the article but for now - The Wanch is reopening in April next to Amazonia.

There will still be weird tram seats, but you can’t sit on them.

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COVID in HK

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The Govt announces that 674 preliminary positive #COVID19 cases were found in the #CompulsoryTestingExercises for the restricted areas in Kwai Chung, Tuen Mun, Tseung Kwan O, Wong Tai Sin, Kwun Tong and Aberdeen news.gov.hk/eng/2022/03/20…
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11:44 AM ∙ Mar 19, 2022

Coronavirus in Hong Kong

  • New cases: 16,583 (new low!)

  • Total cases: 1,033,541

  • New deaths: 249 (67 backlog)

  • Total deaths: 5,650

Extra test for Mainland travel

Apart from just holding a negative test 48 hours before traveling, HK → Mainland travelers will now need to do a test at the border as well. The PCR test is free and will take 1-2 hours.

This is currently only for land travel but may be extended to air travel to the Mainland as well.

Fifth Wave Tetering; herd immunity on the horizon but stay vigilant

Hong Kong tallied 16,583 cases today - a new low which for once is a good thing.

Professor. Ivan Hung said yesterday that HK is reaching herd immunity, and if vax rates can reach 90%, we could start to maybe consider relaxing social distancing pretty please with cherries on top.

Hung said relaxations would likely begin with evening dining services, open air activities, then eventually opening back up for international travel. Negative travelers will be allowed to enter quarantine-free while positive travelers will have quarantine at home for 7 days.


Hong Kong Film Festival in the UK begins

Several political titles banned in HK will be showed in London, Manchester and Edinburgh as part of the Hong Kong Film Festival in the UK.

The festival, organised by the Hong Kong Umbrella Community, a community founded by self-exiled lawmaker Nathan Law will show films banned on grounds of subversion such as award winning documentary ‘Revolution of Our Times’ by Kiwi Chow, ‘Inside the Red Brick Wall’, by the anonymous Hong Kong Filmmakers Collective, and ‘May You Stay Forever Young’ by Rex Ren and Sam Lam a youth drama set during the 2019 protests.

Apparently ticket bookings crashed the booking sites, but also last night I tried to search for something on HM’s Land Registry and I think I crashed the site by typing in my email (can someone over there like fix the internet?)

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Festival curators Ng Ka-leung and Wong Ching: Although we didn't get funding or sponsorship, we crashed the servers of two cinemas when tickets went on sale ... We will use memory to resist forgetting
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5:45 PM ∙ Mar 19, 2022
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Events and deals

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Our friends over at La Cabane have kindly given all High Tide subscribers 10% off everything on their online store - high quality wines, cheeses and wines-and-cheeses accessories.

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Use the code HIGHONWINE10 at www.lacabane.hk to stock up your wine cellar today.

Other Events

  • HKU COVID and Mental Health Survey

Wanna become a statistic? I sure do! HKU is running a voluntary online mental health survey till April, trying to find if there is any (yes) relationship between COVID and HK’s mental health problems.

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Stolen/borrowed from @tripperhead Important survey for everyone to fill in - Chinese and English available
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6:30 PM ∙ Mar 19, 2022

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