# sinica (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover sinica. Page: Feed: --- ## [More from ‘external forces’](https://www.biglychee.com/2026/08/26/more-from-external-forces/) _2026-08-25 · biglychee · Big Lychee, Various Sectors_ A group of lawyers’ organizations issue a statement on Chow Hang-tung… Chow Hang-tung has been subjected to extensive harassment, multiple arrests, prolonged pre-trial detention and periods of solitary confinement by the authorities for her legitimate human rights work. In 2024, … Continue reading → ## [Could commemorating Wang Wang be subversion?](https://www.biglychee.com/2026/08/25/could-commemorating-wang-wang-be-subversion/) _2026-08-24 · biglychee · Big Lychee, Various Sectors_ Following a notorious animal-cruelty case in the Mainland, Hong Kong people line up to lay flowers in memory of the dead dog Wang Wang and launch publicity campaigns calling for better protection for animals in China. But will the authorities … Continue reading → ## [Responses to HK Alliance convictions](https://www.biglychee.com/2026/08/24/responses-to-hk-alliance-convictions/) _2026-08-24 · biglychee · Big Lychee, Various Sectors_ The Hong Kong government’s statement on the conviction of Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan… The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government today (August 22) expressed strong dissatisfaction with and firm opposition to, and strongly condemned, the baseless slanders and … Continue reading → ## [Anyone expecting a ‘not guilty’ verdict?](https://www.biglychee.com/2026/08/21/anyone-expecting-a-not-guilty-verdict/) _2026-08-21 · biglychee · Big Lychee, Various Sectors_ For years after 1989, the HK Alliance were free to organize annual Tiananmen vigils, which included calls for an end to one-party rule in China. Then, in 2021, its leaders were arrested and charged with inciting subversion under the NatSec … Continue reading → ## [More Hong Kong demographics](https://www.biglychee.com/2026/08/20/more-hong-kong-demographics/) _2026-08-20 · biglychee · Big Lychee, Various Sectors_ Some stats from a contributor here. A quarter of Hong Kong’s population is over 65. It’s amazing things are still ticking over. Joel Chan at Numberwang goes into detail… Looking back in time, the population has hovered around 7.5 million … Continue reading → ## [Two demographics stories](https://www.biglychee.com/2026/08/19/two-demographics-stories/) _2026-08-19 · biglychee · Big Lychee, Various Sectors_ Hong Kong’s population reaches 7.58 million – a 0.3%/19,400 increase year on year. After some 30,000 births and 50,000 deaths, that means a net inflow of around 40,000… The government spokesman said that various measures to attract talent and import … Continue reading → ## [Bibliophobia latest](https://www.biglychee.com/2026/08/18/bibliophobia-latest/) _2026-08-17 · biglychee · Big Lychee, Various Sectors_ A thorough HKFP account of Hong Kong’s clampdown on bookstores, which seems to be expanding into a broader official fear of books imported from Taiwan… This year alone, staff from four bookstores were arrested by national security police. In March, … Continue reading → ## [Some Monday reading](https://www.biglychee.com/2026/08/17/some-monday-reading/) _2026-08-16 · biglychee · Big Lychee, Various Sectors_ From the HK Uncensored Substack… A hard-hitting Observer investigation by Danny Vincent reveals the extraordinary lengths Hong Kong’s authorities have gone to keep Jimmy Lai isolated — clearing entire floors of Stanley Prison to cut him off from other inmates. … Continue reading → ## [Having a ‘body check’](https://www.biglychee.com/2026/08/14/having-a-body-check/) _2026-08-13 · biglychee · Big Lychee, Various Sectors_ Spent yesterday morning getting my first proper physical in a decade at a place in Central. They must do dozens of people every day a three-hour long conveyor belt of form-filling, examinations and tests, plus some waiting in between. Continue reading ## [Pro-govt media against journalists](https://www.biglychee.com/2026/08/13/pro-govt-media-against-journalists/) _2026-08-12 · biglychee · Big Lychee, Various Sectors_ Lingua Sinica examines the links between pro-Beijing media outlets attacking the HK Journalists Association last week… Without evidence, and in remarks that seemed a clear public setup stemming from the Wen Wei Po question \[at a press conference on a Continue reading ## [Web Coding With AI, Live (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/15Emelxfpjp8) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ Collaborative screen sharing with simultaneous remote control, open source. ## [Some mid-week reading](https://www.biglychee.com/2026/08/12/some-mid-week-reading-12/) _2026-08-11 · biglychee · Big Lychee, Various Sectors_ Desmond Shum tweet on Beijing’s tax clampdown on offshore wealth… Article 11 states that even someone who has obtained foreign nationality or permanent or long-term residence overseas may still be deemed a Chinese domiciled tax resident if his or her Continue reading ## [In the courts](https://www.biglychee.com/2026/08/11/in-the-courts/) _2026-08-10 · biglychee · Big Lychee, Various Sectors_ The Court of Appeal allows 11 of the HK47 convicted of ‘conspiracy to commit subversion’ over the 2020 pan-dem primary elections to go to the Court of Final Appeal The defendants feature some of Hong Kong’s most prominent Continue reading ## [NatSec grinds on](https://www.biglychee.com/2026/08/10/natsec-grinds-on/) _2026-08-10 · biglychee · Big Lychee, Various Sectors_ Lingnan University Students Union founded in 1967 decides to dissolve. The only student unions still active are at City U and HKUST, plus a couple of Chinese U’s colleges. One of the few remaining prominent and critical civil-society Continue reading ## [Your tax bill for the last 25 years…](https://www.biglychee.com/2026/08/07/your-bill-for-the-last-25-years/) _2026-08-07 · biglychee · Big Lychee, Various Sectors_ The Hang Seng Index suffers a modest plunge as insurers, banks and property developers worry that Beijing’s new drive to tax decades of offshore income will dissuade wealthy Mainlanders from parking their money in Hong Kong. Some observers will wonder Continue reading ## [Someone pays attention to LegCo](https://www.biglychee.com/2026/08/06/someone-pays-attention-to-legco/) _2026-08-06 · biglychee · Big Lychee, Various Sectors_ We don’t hear much about the Legislative Council these days. Although there are 90 of them, the all-patriots members are mostly low-profile. There’s the one who drove her car the wrong way down a street. And another who did something Continue reading ## [A mid-week read](https://www.biglychee.com/2026/08/05/a-mid-week-read/) _2026-08-04 · biglychee · Big Lychee, Various Sectors_ From Flying Chopstick on Substack, a long, academic-type piece, partly critiquing a starry-eyed guy called Perez who thinks China has invented a space-age new form of governance, but mainly examining how Hong Kong fits into China’s system of government, with Continue reading ## [Fundamentalists speak out](https://www.biglychee.com/2026/08/04/fundamentalists-speak-out/) _2026-08-03 · biglychee · Big Lychee, Various Sectors_ HKFP reports criticism of the Hong Kong government’s clampdown on bookstores from a slightly unexpected source: a small conservative Christian group known mainly for its anti-gay views… The Society for Truth and Light’s secretary general Choi Chi-sum said in a Continue reading ## [The Economist on ‘NatSec theatre’ and invisible red lines](https://www.biglychee.com/2026/08/03/the-economist-on-natsec-theatre-and-invisible-red-lines/) _2026-08-02 · biglychee · Big Lychee, Various Sectors_ The Economist tries to explain Hong Kong’s obsession with shutting down small bookstores… Evidently the officers in charge of the raid had not expected such a big haul, or they would have brought more bins. The last of it had Continue reading ## [Latest NatSec threat: scholarships](https://www.biglychee.com/2026/07/31/latest-natsec-threat-scholarships/) _2026-07-31 · biglychee · Big Lychee, Various Sectors_ Yesterday’s on-line Standard carried an op-ed (or ‘news’ story) warning that overseas exchange and training opportunities, including the Fulbright and Chevening scholarships, are being used to groom agents for evil foreign forces… …Some political figures have bluntly stated that such Continue reading ## [Takes one to know one?](https://www.biglychee.com/2026/07/30/takes-one-to-know-one/) _2026-07-29 · biglychee · Big Lychee, Various Sectors_ Stephen Roach, former boss of Morgan Stanley Asia, writes a piece updating and defending his belief that ‘Hong Kong is over’ This dramatic transformation into Xianggang is the real story. Hong Kong s defenders are in denial about this new chameleon-like Continue reading ## [8.1% APY Plus Free Stock (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/yHoL5RGscL7I) _2026-07-29 · **Sponsored**_ Claim 8.1% APY and up to $1,030 in SK hynix and Nvidia stock. ## [Mid-week reading](https://www.biglychee.com/2026/07/29/mid-week-reading-2/) _2026-07-29 · biglychee · Big Lychee, Various Sectors_ Lingua Sinica on how Hong Kong is emulating Mainland-style merging of NatSec police and media… Episodes two and three \[of NS Files: Decoded\] touch on the publication and distribution of the allegedly seditious children’s book Sheep Village, and the prosecution Continue reading ## [Sounds better than ‘fired’](https://www.biglychee.com/2026/07/28/sounds-better-than-fired/) _2026-07-27 · biglychee · Big Lychee, Various Sectors_ After his fifth case of plagiarism and several reprimands High Court Judge William Chan ‘takes early retirement’. HKFP reports… In the latest instance of plagiarism, Chan was found to have copied large parts of the defence’s opening and Continue reading ## [‘Less and less to scrutinize’](https://www.biglychee.com/2026/07/27/less-and-less-to-scrutinize/) _2026-07-26 · biglychee · Big Lychee, Various Sectors_ HK Labour Rights Monitor looks at how former members of the Hong Kong Police are moving into senior positions elsewhere in the public sector… Since taking office, \[ex-cop CE John\] Lee has appointed at least seven former senior police officers Continue reading ## [Introducing Asia’s Touchy-Feely Hub](https://www.biglychee.com/2026/07/24/introducing-asias-touchy-feely-hub/) _2026-07-24 · biglychee · Big Lychee, Various Sectors_ The SCMP reports on the HK Tourism Bored Board’s new exciting promotional campaign. Because apparently we don’t have enough tourists yet… Hong Kong is seeking to promote itself as a city that visitors “feel” rather than merely see under a Continue reading ## [Hong Kong thwarts teenage autistic graffiti menace](https://www.biglychee.com/2026/07/23/hong-kong-thwarts-teenage-autistic-graffiti-menace/) _2026-07-22 · biglychee · Big Lychee, Various Sectors_ Police staked out a bathroom in order to catch an autistic 18/19-year-old for scrawling ‘seditious words’ on the wall. The guy worked part-time as a clerk for the Vanuatu consulate… Magistrate Victor So handed down judgement on Wednesday morning at Continue reading ## [Hong Kong thwarts mentally disabled waiter menace](https://www.biglychee.com/2026/07/21/hong-kong-thwarts-mentally-disabled-waiter-menace/) _2026-07-20 · biglychee · Big Lychee, Various Sectors_ Of all the national security threats Hong Kong has faced in recent years teenagers, housewives, booksellers, etc this one must be the most pitiful… A Hong Kong court has sentenced a man with an intellectual disability to two Continue reading ## [More on bookstores](https://www.biglychee.com/2026/07/20/more-on-bookstores/) _2026-07-20 · biglychee · Big Lychee, Various Sectors_ Detained-bookseller artwork here. I visited Hunter Bookstore over the weekend. Quite crowded, with a slight ‘closing down sale” vibe though the store is issuing customer-loyalty cards as if it expects to be around for the long term. As well Continue reading