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#FirstHand #Sept7
Police Arrests Hong Kong Journalists Association's Chair
On September 7, 2022, veteran journalist and chairman of Hong Kong Journalists Association (#HKJA) #RonsonChan was arrested in Hong Kong for "obstructing police officers and disorder in public place".
It was reported that Chan and a photographer were on their way to a press briefing in Mong Kok, where they were intercepted by two plainclothes police officers for no apparent reason.
As Chan asked the officers for
police ID, they refused and accused Chan of being not cooperative. Within minutes, he was warned for multiple times and arrested.
Before mid-night, Chan was released on bail after being held at the Mong Kok police station for about 11 hours.
In an interview with local press, Chan told reporters that one of the police officers scoffed at him, "HKJA is trash". Later, he also taunted that "when will you die?"
Chan recited that his wrist was being forcefully held together, leaving a visible bruise mark.
Source: #FirstHand #Sept7
#PoliceState #Journalism #PressFreedom
Police Arrests Hong Kong Journalists Association's Chair
On September 7, 2022, veteran journalist and chairman of Hong Kong Journalists Association (#HKJA) #RonsonChan was arrested in Hong Kong for "obstructing police officers and disorder in public place".
It was reported that Chan and a photographer were on their way to a press briefing in Mong Kok, where they were intercepted by two plainclothes police officers for no apparent reason.
As Chan asked the officers for
police ID, they refused and accused Chan of being not cooperative. Within minutes, he was warned for multiple times and arrested.
Before mid-night, Chan was released on bail after being held at the Mong Kok police station for about 11 hours.
In an interview with local press, Chan told reporters that one of the police officers scoffed at him, "HKJA is trash". Later, he also taunted that "when will you die?"
Chan recited that his wrist was being forcefully held together, leaving a visible bruise mark.
Source: #FirstHand #Sept7
#PoliceState #Journalism #PressFreedom
#DeutscheBank CEO warns recession is inevitable, says #Germany must cut reliance on #China
Source: CNBC #Sept7
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Source: CNBC #Sept7
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#DeutscheBank CEO warns recession is inevitable, says #Germany must cut reliance on #China
//The German economy stagnated in the second quarter, while producer price inflation hit a record high in July. The German finance ministry cited reduced gas supplies from Russia, rising costs of energy and other goods, and persistent supply chain disruptions in part due to China's "zero-Covid" policy...
"When it comes to dependencies, we also have to face the awkward question of how to deal with China. Its increasing isolation and growing tensions, especially between China and the United States, pose a considerable risk for Germany," Sewing said, adding that China had become a "cornerstone" of the German economy.
He highlighted that China accounts for around 8% of German exports and 12% of imports, while more than one-tenth of the sales of companies listed on the country's DAX stock index go to China, adding that the pandemic made clear the extent to which German supply chains rely on Russia.
"Reducing this dependency will require a change no less fundamental than decoupling from Russian energy," he said.//
Source: CNBC #Sept7
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/07/deutsche-bank-ceo-warns-of-recession-says-germany-must-cut-china-reliance.html
#Inflation #Recession #WorldEconomy
//The German economy stagnated in the second quarter, while producer price inflation hit a record high in July. The German finance ministry cited reduced gas supplies from Russia, rising costs of energy and other goods, and persistent supply chain disruptions in part due to China's "zero-Covid" policy...
"When it comes to dependencies, we also have to face the awkward question of how to deal with China. Its increasing isolation and growing tensions, especially between China and the United States, pose a considerable risk for Germany," Sewing said, adding that China had become a "cornerstone" of the German economy.
He highlighted that China accounts for around 8% of German exports and 12% of imports, while more than one-tenth of the sales of companies listed on the country's DAX stock index go to China, adding that the pandemic made clear the extent to which German supply chains rely on Russia.
"Reducing this dependency will require a change no less fundamental than decoupling from Russian energy," he said.//
Source: CNBC #Sept7
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/07/deutsche-bank-ceo-warns-of-recession-says-germany-must-cut-china-reliance.html
#Inflation #Recession #WorldEconomy
CNBC
Deutsche Bank CEO warns recession is inevitable, says Germany must cut reliance on China
Deutsche Bank CEO Christian Sewing has warned that a recession in Germany is inevitable, and urged the country's leaders to accelerate its decoupling from China.
#US bans āadvanced techā firms from building facilities in #China for a decade
//US technology firms that receive government funding will be banned from building āadvanced technology facilitiesā in China for a decade, the Biden administration has announced, as it outlined plans to increase domestic production of semiconductors.
The requirements come under the US governmentās near-$53bn (Ā£46bn) plan to scale up manufacturing of semiconductor chips ā the ābrainā in every electronic device from cars to household appliances ā which are predominantly produced in Asia.
The US Chips and Science Act (#Chips), approved by Congress in August, is part of the American response to a long-running technological dispute between Washington and Beijing, as US firms demand more government support to reduce reliance on components produced in Chinese factories...
The Chips Act commits a total of $280bn to hi-tech manufacturing and research, and is designed to increase the USās competitiveness with China.
The US crackdown on the sale of technology to China has already begun to have an impact, with the US chip designer Nvidia disclosing last week that it had been told by US officials to stop exporting two top computing chips for artificial intelligence work to China.//
Source: The Guardian #Sept7
#IntellectualProperty #Technology
//US technology firms that receive government funding will be banned from building āadvanced technology facilitiesā in China for a decade, the Biden administration has announced, as it outlined plans to increase domestic production of semiconductors.
The requirements come under the US governmentās near-$53bn (Ā£46bn) plan to scale up manufacturing of semiconductor chips ā the ābrainā in every electronic device from cars to household appliances ā which are predominantly produced in Asia.
The US Chips and Science Act (#Chips), approved by Congress in August, is part of the American response to a long-running technological dispute between Washington and Beijing, as US firms demand more government support to reduce reliance on components produced in Chinese factories...
The Chips Act commits a total of $280bn to hi-tech manufacturing and research, and is designed to increase the USās competitiveness with China.
The US crackdown on the sale of technology to China has already begun to have an impact, with the US chip designer Nvidia disclosing last week that it had been told by US officials to stop exporting two top computing chips for artificial intelligence work to China.//
Source: The Guardian #Sept7
#IntellectualProperty #Technology
5 Hong Kong speech therapists found guilty of sedition over childrenās books
Source: HKFP #Sept7
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5 Hong Kong speech therapists found guilty of sedition over childrenās books
[Editors note: The five speech therapists were sentenced to one year and seven months in jail.]
//Five Hong Kong speech therapists have been found guilty of breaching the colonial-era sedition law by printing a series of childrenās books about sheep and wolves. The publications were said to have spread separatism and incited hatred against the authorities...
District Judge Kwok Wai-kin on Wednesday convicted Lorie Lai, Melody Yeung, Sidney Ng, Samuel Chan and Fong Tsz-ho of conspiring to print, publish, distribute and display three books with seditious intent between June 2020 and July 2021.
The five executive committee members of the General Union of Hong Kong Speech Therapists, all of whom had denied the charge, could face up to two years behind bars. They will return to court on September 10 for mitigation and sentencing...
Gwen Lee, Amnesty Internationalās China campaigner, said in a statement on Wednesday evening that the conviction was an āabsurd example of the disintegration of human rights in the city.ā
āWriting books for children is not a crime, and attempting to educate children about recent events in Hong Kongās history does not constitute an attempt to incite rebellion,ā Lee said in the statement...
āThe Hong Kong authoritiesā recent revival of colonial-era sedition charges to prosecute activists, journalists and writers is a brazen act of repression. No one had been charged with sedition since 1967 until the Hong Kong government began weaponizing these provisions to intensify its crackdown on freedom of expression.ā//
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https://hongkongfp.com/2022/09/07/breaking-5-hong-kong-speech-therapists-found-guilty-of-sedition-over-childrens-books/
Source: HKFP #Sept7
[Editors note: The five speech therapists were sentenced to one year and seven months in jail.]
//Five Hong Kong speech therapists have been found guilty of breaching the colonial-era sedition law by printing a series of childrenās books about sheep and wolves. The publications were said to have spread separatism and incited hatred against the authorities...
District Judge Kwok Wai-kin on Wednesday convicted Lorie Lai, Melody Yeung, Sidney Ng, Samuel Chan and Fong Tsz-ho of conspiring to print, publish, distribute and display three books with seditious intent between June 2020 and July 2021.
The five executive committee members of the General Union of Hong Kong Speech Therapists, all of whom had denied the charge, could face up to two years behind bars. They will return to court on September 10 for mitigation and sentencing...
Gwen Lee, Amnesty Internationalās China campaigner, said in a statement on Wednesday evening that the conviction was an āabsurd example of the disintegration of human rights in the city.ā
āWriting books for children is not a crime, and attempting to educate children about recent events in Hong Kongās history does not constitute an attempt to incite rebellion,ā Lee said in the statement...
āThe Hong Kong authoritiesā recent revival of colonial-era sedition charges to prosecute activists, journalists and writers is a brazen act of repression. No one had been charged with sedition since 1967 until the Hong Kong government began weaponizing these provisions to intensify its crackdown on freedom of expression.ā//
Read more:
https://hongkongfp.com/2022/09/07/breaking-5-hong-kong-speech-therapists-found-guilty-of-sedition-over-childrens-books/
Source: HKFP #Sept7
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5 Hong Kong speech therapists found guilty of sedition over childrenās books
Five Hong Kong speech therapists have been found guilty of breaching the colonial-era sedition law by printing a series of childrenās books about sheep and wolves. The publications were said ā¦