pkguy01 @pkguy01

@laozhouhengmei 好明顯係香港人侵犯左佢亂拋垃圾嘅權利⋯⋯

中国游客又火了。 五一假期，中国游客大批在香港咸田湾搭帐篷露营，有人乱扔垃圾以及破坏树木，被渔获署罚款3000元。 记者采访一位被罚款人的朋友，问他：自己的垃圾自己带走，你认为宣传得够不够？ 他嗤之以鼻：“我觉得很可笑，我交钱不就行了吗？” 这货一举成名，他这段采访现在已经火遍全球了。

2026年世界新闻自由度：台湾位居亚洲第1 中国全球倒数第3，叙利亚快超过香港。 无国界记者组织（RSF）公布2026年世界新闻自由指数，台湾排名第28，仍居亚洲国家之首，中国则因拘留121名记者居全球之冠，排名稳居倒数第3（第178名）。被评比为「状况恶劣」 香港排名第140名，因媒体人黎智英近期被判刑20年，堪称香港记者有史以来所受最重刑罚，此一事件被视为香港新闻自由度倒退的指标，新闻自由评比与中国同为「状况恶劣」。

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@khanadan99 Fuck you Iran. This is the fire tragedy in Hong Kong at Nov 2025, caused by the incompetent HKSAR government appointed by your shit ally CCP!

@HJB_News__ @grok Did he really said so? Any source?

@__Injaneb96 @NYCMayor Well said!

Today, my father was convicted simply for being my father. This is how the Hong Kong government retaliates against me and my pro-democracy advocacy. This is hostage taking. This is transnational repression.

For Hong Kong Fire, the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has arrested 12 people. Some are suspected of purchasing non-fire-retardant scaffold netting and “mixing” it with compliant materials in order to obtain a passing safety test report. Compliant netting was allegedly installed only at the lower sections of the building, while non-compliant netting was used above. The price difference between the two types is around HKD 100,000. (Photo: Now News)

Hong Kong’s CCP puppets so terrified of civil society that they will not even let people assist fire victims, let alone demand to know why so many people died in a preventable tragedy.

Razven @RazvenHK

8 months ago

@inmediahk reports that HK university student Miles Kwan, who was seen handing out fliers demanding an independent investigation and accountability for the Tai Po fire was detained and taken to the police station. The online petition and related media has since been deleted.

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Faster than one can say “national security threat”, the Hong Kong Police’s National Security Division has, in connection with the Tao Po Fires, arrested a university student who started a concern group and disseminated a leaflet with calls for (1) further support for victims; (2) an independent inquiry into potential systemic and corruption issues which led to the disaster; (3) reforms to the regulation of construction works projects; and (4) that officials who fell short in events/policies that led to the disaster be held accountable. Such demands would be considered the basic starting point in any democracy where such disasters have happened, and are not dissimilar to those demanded by @GrenfellUnited all those years ago. And yet in post-national security crackdown Hong Kong, one gets locked up for making such demands. Another irony in all this is that in Mainland China itself, it is now standard for local officials to be forced to step down after disasters, whereas in Hong Kong even just calling for official accountability can get you arrested for being a national security threat. WESTERN MEDIA, IT REALLY IS TIME YOU STOP JUST REPEATING HONG KONG GOVERNMENT LINES AND SHOWING INAGES OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS IN “MOURNING” PHOTO OPS, AND SEEING THE DISASTER AND ITS AFTERMATH FOE WHAT IT REALLY IS.

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【Tai Po Fire, Bid-Rigging, and Bamboo Scaffolding in NSL-Era Hong Kong】 The Tai Po fire was not just a tragic accident; it was the predictable outcome of a broken system. A system where estate management, renovation contracts, and public safety have long been undermined by collusion, bid-rigging, and zero accountability. And since the NSL, Hong Kong has no civil society or independent media strong enough to hold these networks to account. Even when residents and expert and activists like Jason Poon, took their own samples of the netting and tried to expose the risks, they were ignored. Wang Fuk Court was in the middle of a HK$330M “mega-repair.” Residents had protested the sky-high cost, accusing the owners’ corporation of force-pushing the plan through despite objections. Transparency was minimal. Oversight was weak. This is exactly how bid-rigging works in HK housing estates: pre-selected contractors, inflated prices, limited competition, opaque decisions, and incentives to cut corners on materials and safety, because no one is genuinely checking, nor can the civil society did what it used to do-- to hold different people to account and raise awareness of these issues. During the renovation, the contractor wrapped the buildings with mesh, and foam boards that allegedly failed to meet fire-resistant standards. Some residents took a sample of the netting material to test on their own; videos showed it burned and dripped-- hardly in compliance with the regulations [1]. Here, cheaper, flammable materials meant higher profit margins and higher risk. The Wang Fuk Court contractor ignored safety again and again, with a long trail of corruption and violations. In 9 years, they racked up at least 17 regulatory breaches and fines. When the fire started, the netting as shown in many videos, burned quickly. A slow fire became an inferno in minutes. Police arrested multiple directors and engineers from the construction company. ICAC launched an investigation into the renovation contract itself — including how a controversial HK$330M plan was approved and whether corruption was involved. This is the cost of collusion: Bid-rigging doesn’t just overcharge residents. It kills oversight, kills competition, and, in this case, helped create conditions that killed people. Hong Kong’s building maintenance system has tolerated collusion and corruption for years. The Tai Po fire is the clearest possible warning: corruption in estate management is not just a financial issue. It tells us a lot about HK-China relationship. Beijing could and had rewritten Hong Kong’s political system overnight and crushed organised dissent, but it has never been able to cleanly uproot the entrenched construction and maintenance networks that profit from this model of “business as usual.” And this is where the politics of bamboo scaffolding enters the picture. There is a long-understood agenda from Beijing to undermine Hong Kong’s bamboo scaffolding industry, not because it is unsafe, but precisely because it is a local craft, part of the Hong Kong identity, practised safely for decades, and one of the last corners of construction work where Chinese state-owned developers and their preferred contractors have never managed to gain a foothold. Bamboo scaffolding is not standard in the PRC; metal scaffolding is. And right now, mainland China faces a record glut of metal scaffolding materials, made worse by recent scandals over fake steel being used in their production , scandals that have no counterpart in Hong Kong’s bamboo trade. So when the Hong Kong Government suddenly pushes a mandatory shift to metal scaffolding “for safety,” it is hard to ignore the timing. Yahoo Finance reports that Hong Kong experts defending the safety of bamboo scaffolding are being aggressively dismissed by PRC netizens, while the Government doubles down on the same narrative. In other words, this is not really about fire safety. It is a political and economic project to replace a resilient local craft with PRC-standard practices, conveniently absorbing a mainland oversupply while sidelining an industry Beijing has never been able to capture. Thus, the tragedy is being used to accelerate “integration,” dressed up as technical modernisation. On paper, it’s about protecting the public; in practice, it sidesteps politically connected local players without ever reckoning with the actual causes of the fire: opaque estate governance, weak enforcement, collusion, and the hollowing out of watchdogs under the NSL. We, Hongkongers, outside or inside the city do not trust the government or any of its proxies. Five years of national security crackdowns, media censorship, and relentless state messaging have not repaired the rupture exposed in 2019. That distrust is alive, deep, and justified. HKSAR Gov and co are clearly not acting in good faith. Now, as you are reading, volunteers who organised themselves to help were reported to the police for unlawful assembly, a move that looks less like public order and more like spite. It is yet another sign that the Government now treats ordinary civic-minded Hongkongers as adversaries. And I fear reporting them is not the end of it, as Hongkongers came up with 4 very reasonable demands asking for investigation and accountability. For us, the fact that John Lee decided to thank Xi Jinping first, rather than giving the credit to the brave firefighters, showed us that they are replicating the Mainland disaster-stagecraft: PR-first, people-last; party-state-first, people-last. Taken together, the political economy of scaffolding, the erasure of civil oversight, and the Government’s behaviour during the crisis reinforce the same truth: the problem is not bamboo. The problem is a system where power, profit, and propaganda take precedence over safety, accountability, and the lives of Hong Kong people. [1] facebook.com/JasonPoonHongK…

For the Hong Kong Fire, we built an open, centralised database to preserve all verifiable information, news reports, footage, technical analyses, contractor details, volunteer/community support records, official responses, and follow-up developments.

Moves to silence criticisms of the Hong Kong Government’s handling of the Tai Po Fires aftermath is in full swing. A spokesman for the China Central Government’s National Security Office in Hong Kong is now saying that anyone who “maliciously” criticises the HK Government would be considered as using the disaster to destabilise Hong Kong so as to endanger national security, and that harsh punishments would be put in place for such acts.

(1/11) I oppose any hasty government move to abandon bamboo scaffolding, a proven, resilient, and cost-effective engineering system that has served Hong Kong’s high-rise and complex urban environment for decades. #HongKongFire And here is why:

@lukedepulford

.@adamwithnall's piece does something deeply irresponsible: it takes a tragedy and uses it to push a simplistic conclusion--“the bamboo has to go” without evidence, without understanding HK’s construction practice, and with a clear cultural bias. It is Orientalism. Anyone who has watched even one video knows the white plastic/fabric netting ignited first. It is highly flammable. It burns fast and drips fire. The bamboo, by contrast, is still standing on multiple blocks even after the blaze. If bamboo were the problem, it would have collapsed. Claiming bamboo “spread the fire” is simply false. Bamboo isn’t a quaint “quirky throwback.” It is a highly skilled, engineered system honed across decades, one that works specifically well because Hong Kong’s dense, humid, high-rise environment. If bamboo scaffolding were as unsafe as the article implies, Hong Kong would have had constant large-scale fires. We haven’t. This was the first Level 5 fire in 17 years. Blaming bamboo because it “looks traditional” is lazy and prejudiced reporting. Calling bamboo “quirky,” a “throwback,” and suggesting that Hongkongers should fear the sight of scaffolding the next morning is pure Orientalism. This is a textbook Western lens: Western methods = modern, safe Local methods = outdated, dangerous Hong Kong uses bamboo because it works, not because the city is nostalgic or backward.

I want to add as a HongKonger: 1. Mourning period isn’t a thing in HK, esp when MAMA is a Korean event not a local one. We don’t care if it takes place. 2. It’s a 6 hrs walk from Tai Po to the Kai Tak venue Bamboo scaffolding doesn’t fuel fires, but incompetent authorities do.

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Razven @RazvenHK

8 months ago

@inmediahk reports that HK university student Miles Kwan, who was seen handing out fliers demanding an independent investigation and accountability for the Tai Po fire was detained and taken to the police station. The online petition and related media has since been deleted.

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(1/3) Regarding the Hong Kong fire: CNN quoted PolyU’s Prof. Huang saying bamboo is flammable, implying the bamboo scaffold was the main driver. But multiple clips show the netting and wrap igniting, not the scaffold; most bamboo poles remained intact.

‼️ In a now deleted post, the 🇨🇳 Consul General in Osaka threatened @takaichi_sanae "If you go sticking that filthy neck where it doesn't belong, it's gonna get sliced right off. You ready for that?" 🇯🇵 should PNG him. japan-forward.com/chinese-consul…

@ipacglobal @ukhomeoffice @DavidAltonHL Thank you for @DavidAltonHL and those keeping their enthusiasm on Hong Kong matters.