Candice Chau

Ex-reporter @hkfp, BSocSc Pol&IR @OfficialUoM, MSc IPE @LSEIRDept BA Law @cambridgelaw

[Selina Cheng @selina_cheng]

Today I met w the Labour Department of Hong Kong to seek an investigation of the Wall Street Journal's unlawful actions against union participation. As a union rep, I hope to lead by example in affirming & securing the job protections that are guaranteed by law. Photo: boomheadhk

[Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hkfp]

American newspaper The Wall Street Journal has terminated Hong Kong-based reporter Selina Cheng weeks after she was elected chair of the city’s embattled Hong Kong Journalist Association.

In full: https://t.co/ZiQbd0aYD7

Photos: Kyle Lam/HKFP.

[Candice Chau @ChauCandice]

Missing the amazing @hkfp team already!

Next stop: 🇬🇧

[Tom Grundy @tomgrundy]

Farewell & thank you to @HKFP's brilliant senior journo @ChauCandice
https://t.co/8ybkyh4ZIa

Almost 1,000 reports over almost 3 years - covering the pandemic and upgrading our court reporting. Best of luck with studies! 💪

[Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hkfp]

Why I am giving up writing about Hong Kong politics

🔗 https://t.co/4yYvJ1aWUQ

[Helen Davidson @heldavidson]

Hong Kong: landmark national security trial of 47 democracy advocates begins. With on-the-ground reporting by @holongsze and @ChauCandice from the @hkfp https://t.co/dyonDqRjjo

[Candice Chau @ChauCandice]

Some said on Monday they didn’t know which case they were there for, a woman said she was here for “the Jimmy Lai case” (the media tycoon is charged in a separate NSL case), some others said they joined the queue “as many other people did so.”

[Candice Chau @ChauCandice]

The trial against 16 of the 47 democrats charged under the NSL began on Monday, almost two years after the group was first brought to court on 1 March, 2021.

While both hearings saw hundreds of people queuing up outside the court building, some scenes were notably different.

[Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hkfp]

1/ 🧵At least 200 people lined up outside West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts early Monday morning as #HongKong's largest national security case against 47 pro-democracy figures was set to begin: https://t.co/jH93vdMW6A

[Candice Chau @ChauCandice]

Gone were members of the public holding up signs and chanting slogans, instead, groups of men and women who were not quite clear on what case they were lining up for took up a sizeable portion of the queue.

(Pic from 2021)

[Candice Chau @ChauCandice]

In a separate judgement, Lai was allowed to hire King's Counsel Timothy Owen for his upcoming national security trial, with the Chief Judge of the High Court Jeremy Poon saying that it was "clearly in the public interest" to do so.

[Candice Chau @ChauCandice]

As the city focuses on CE's first Policy Address today, the High Court ruled that the police can investigate journalistic materials stored in media tycoon Jimmy Lai's phones under a national security warrant.

[Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hkfp]

National security: Hong Kong court allows police to search journalistic materials stored on Jimmy Lai’s phones

https://t.co/YJz4vsqj4H

[Lea Mok @leamokhc]

Ex-chief of Observatory and environmental activist Lam Chiu-ying reacts to mean comments. Funniest video I’ve made, but it’s too long for twitter so let’s check out @ChauCandice’s article and my video in the link below.

https://t.co/x1yx3Qxvxo

[Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hkfp]

1/ The HKFP team are saddened to learn of the passing of columnist and political scientist Suzanne Pepper this week. The Chinese University of Hong Kong academic and author had written analysis for HKFP since our launch in 2015. https://t.co/I0CFNyGfoz

[Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hkfp]

BREAKING: Hong Kong bars multiple media outlets from inauguration of John Lee and July 1 celebrations

https://t.co/O6xm3o2dwv

[Candice Chau @ChauCandice]

定風波·莫聽穿林打葉聲 蘇軾

莫聽穿林打葉聲，何妨吟嘯且徐行。竹杖芒鞋輕勝馬，誰怕？一蓑煙雨任平生。
料峭春風吹酒醒，微冷，山頭斜照卻相迎。回首向來蕭瑟處，歸去，也無風雨也無晴。

Su Shi, the famous poet from Song Dynasty, was also known for his rough career in politics.

[Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hkfp]

1/ Constitutional affairs chief Erick Tsang appeared distracted during Chief Exec. Carrie Lam's final legislative Q&A on Thursday, as he practiced calligraphy in the chamber.

[Candice Chau @ChauCandice]

Jimmy Lai has been remanded (and then sentenced over other changes) for over 16 months since Dec 2020, while the remaining six defendants in the case have been in remand for close to a year since their prosecution in June and July last year.

[Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hkfp]

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai to stand trial in High Court over national security, sedition charges

https://t.co/WQMvJSm5ED

[Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hkfp]

In full: Winners of the axed FCC Human Rights Press Awards – revealed

https://t.co/PzgSypR3fO

[Jennifer Creery 紀寳瑩 @creery_j]

The @fcchk board has decided to cancel this year's @HRPressAwards. While undoubtedly a difficult decision, it is an extremely disappointing and I alongside seven other members have resigned from the club's press freedom committee https://t.co/9GwH8waVqz

[Shibani Mahtani @ShibaniMahtani]

Yesterday I resigned from the FCC's press freedom committee after three years on the committee, two of them as a board member. As a former winner and judge of the HRPA, I feel nothing but the deepest regret and do not stand by this decision
https://t.co/fAvwzSDJv3

[Candice Chau @ChauCandice]

All HK citizens will be "requested" to take three Covid-19 tests using RATs from April 8 to April 10, except it's voluntary, and the gov't won't have a way to enforce the request, #CarrieLam said

[Candice Chau @ChauCandice]

Where’s the emergency alert? I guess an earthquake doesn’t beat the conversion of QEH, or do I need to wait for a few more hours?

[Observatory HKO @ObservatoryHK]

Earthquake: The Observatory received reports of locally felt earth tremors.