Yuen Chan
@yuenchan.bsky.social
"Where everything was as fresh as the bright blue sky" Was @xinwenxiaojie on the app formerly known as Twitter. Hongkonger, South Londoner. Teaching journalism at City St George's, University of London.
"We didn’t discuss whether I was a good immigrant." You had one job, Joe.
Zoë Grünewald@zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 5d agoI can't explain exactly why, but Phil's amuse bouche is doing 2,000 words worth of voter analysis that psephologists could only dream of
Press group says 5 journalists dismissed at BBC Hong Kong amid bullying claims, urges review 🔗 hongkongfp.com/2026/07/28/p...
"Where is the humanity here?" asks @nathanlawkc.bsky.social. Indeed. It's hard not to conclude that the rhetoric and politics of immigration and asylum have poisoned the well so much that someone like Wu Chi-wai is treated like this. Imagine what it's like for others.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.Britain promised to protect Hongkongers from China. Why does it now seem ready to sacrifice us? | Nathan Law
Or just @kenchengceo.bsky.social really.
Karen K. Ho@karenho.bsky.social · last wk.LinkedIn posts about The Odyssey highlight a kind of business mentality where art cannot be enjoyed for art's sake or even provoke introspection, it has to be turned into some sort of inspiration content for how to be more productive, entrepreneurial, or a better leader.
🚨 BREAKING: At 5pm today Green Bean Media reported that Wu Chi-wai has been granted leave to remain in 🇬🇧 for 6 months. Following intensive advocacy by MPs and NGOs, Wu will not be deported back to #HongKong. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJKj...
【獨家】胡志偉只獲短暫留英現轉機？夏博義：英邊防兩大錯，現重審個案｜Refusal of Wu was doubly wrong. UK Border Force revisits the case
YouTube video by 綠豆 Green Bean Media
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What a travesty. There are so many questions here. Presumably Wu has a BNO? Even if he were to claim asylum, he has compelling grounds to do so. Wu was the leader of Hong Kong's largest pro-democracy party, formerly an elected lawmaker and a political prisoner.
Kanis Leung@kanisleung.bsky.social · last wk.After spending more than five years in Hong Kong’s prison, former pro-democracy lawmaker Wu Chi-wai finally got to embrace his wife and son in London last week. But he could be sent back to the Chinese territory in days. His story: apnews.com/article/hong...
//The vote came after the panel was reconstructed under Kennedy’s leadership to include pharmacists and doctors who stand to benefit from selling peptides, and at least six members who have ties to the industry.//
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2w agoFDA panel supports access to peptides over scientist objections ft.trib.al/L2gE1V2
This disingenuous commentary doesn’t help anyone. Frauds start unravelling pretty quickly. That you apparently cannot afford to put your oven or treat yourself is quickly undermined by the question “so why are you spending £50 per week on petrol?” Then, it turns out, she has an agent and /1
Ash@queerash.bsky.social · 2w agoElaine in this article "can't remember the last time she used her oven" but also spends £200 a month on petrol (so driving probably ~50 miles a day?) (she's also a professional old person; she was on Good Morning Britain last year, and then also at the Nov budget, and the year before lmao)
NEW: DHS plans to pay Thomson Reuters $125 million for access to its databases which includes peoples’ names, addresses, Social Security numbers, ethnicity, social media posts, and geolocation information — to help ICE investigate “voter fraud”, according to documents reviewed by 404 Media.
ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125 Million to Find ‘Voter Fraud’
A new procurement record says ICE wants access to personal data, including names, Social Security numbers, and ethnicity, to investigate in part what the agency calls “voters fraud.” It also plans to ...
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The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w agoTrump administration to grant $12m to groups founded by UK conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young
What’s that job title Liz Truss? 😂 Shambolic start to day two of the UK’s version of MAGA conference CPAC this morning… (Hastily corrected after about 5 mins)
These years of anti-immigration hysteria we're living through right now are going to look utterly incomprehensible in the coming era of closing schools, ageing populations and massively understaffed public services
Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 3w agoWow. The Department for Education has just published new projections which estimate that the number of pupils in state-funded schools in England will plummet by more than 9% by 2031 amid falling birth rates And yet this issue receives probably 1,000th of the coverage the immigration debate receives
Where to even start with this?
Joel Chan@kjoules.org · 3w agoSecurity of Security Chris Tang: “[Booksellers] have to make sure the books you sell won’t endanger national security. It’s equal to, for example, when you are selling food, you need to ensure the food won’t cause a stomach ache and is not either poison or illegal.” apnews.com/article/hong...
To any BNO'ers flirting with supporting Reform, the Tories or indeed the Marshall family.
David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · 3w agoThe Spectator going full on ethnonationalist
Feels like this photo and caption are just trying to troll me.
The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 3w agoThe chicest accessories for alfresco dining
Saw a post about how all the democracy walls in Hong Kong campuses have either been removed or are all now blank. And of course they are. But for some reason, filled me with an aching sadness. #莫名哀傷
British Academy President's statement on the UK's higher education crisis, July 2026.
British Academy President: UK higher education crisis risks irreversible damage
As course closures, shrinking provision and widening regional inequalities threaten the future of UK higher education and research, President of the British Academy, Susan J Smith calls for an immedia...
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Frankie genuinely cared about the people, issues he covered and the societies he lived in. It was a privilege to experience his kindness, warmth and boundless wit. His mastery of accents and impressions are unforgettable. Much cherished, much missed.
Francis Markus obituary
Other lives: BBC Shanghai correspondent with a particular concern for humanitarian issues
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Historic Hong Kong student publication announces it has ceased operation due the inability to recruit members to its editorial board. "Undergrad" was founded in 1952 by the Hong Kong University Students' Union.
Lovely, joyous article! My late-teen (diagnosed ME, likely hEDS) has likewise been inspired to pursue performance and found community through Kate Stanford's fantastic accessible dance classes and her shining example. Thank you and bravo to all these amazing young people!
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.‘Like swimming through the air’: my thrilling role in Giselle with the Royal Ballet School’s wheelchair dancers
Is it me or does this look like satire?
The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · last mo.We doubled the size of our home with a £400k basement
I remember when then sec gen of LegCo Kenneth Chen was a big champion of open data. Wasn't really THAT long ago.
Joel Chan@kjoules.org · 2mo agoHong Kong's elections office will no longer provide statistics on voter turnout by age and gender; the data was not available after the 2025 LegCo election. • In the 2016 LegCo election, turnout among those age 18-30 was 57.48%; in 2021 it was 7.01% www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
There is a group-think in the London media-political complex, that the only response to any political development is to shift further in a Reform direction, a view held from pundits and think-tankers to spads and BBC producers and news editors. But it is a spell, and one day spells can be broken.
Apparently, SCMP staffers used to refer to her as 郭阿女 Kwok Ah Nui (IFYKYK)
Joel Chan@kjoules.org · 2mo ago“Tap your [Hong Kong] cultural foundation,” says Kwok Hui Kwong, daughter of tycoon Robert Kuok and the CEO of the Shangri-La Hotel group, who incidentally also advocated eliminating Cantonese
