Hong Kong Fire: Summary of Open Documents
This matters because it was preventable. The rapid spread suggests human negligence, unsafe decisions, and systemic oversight failures, not an “accident”.
Here are the suspected cases of corner-cutting in the renovation project:
(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.
🇺🇦 says that mayor of Melitopol was released “after a special operation”. Zelensky speaks to him& jokes: “we are happy they took you.. “You seem to have a very lively voice”, he says.
Mayor:”Thank you for not dropping me”.
Z: “We don’t drop our own”.
It is understood that Ralf Rangnick regards the opportunity to take over at #mufc as too big an opportunity to turn down. He is believed to have previously rebuffed Chelsea when they were preparing to sack Frank Lampard #mulive [@TelegraphDucker]
Only one man left doing his runs with a coach - poor Donny van de Beek. 🇳🇱
Penny for the thoughts of the £35m signing that can’t get into a midfield that played like that today…
Pogba's performance:
76 touches
38 passes completed (88%)
— 19 forward passes
12 total duels won
6/8 take-ons completed
4/5 aerial duels won
4 recoveries
4 clearances
2 chances created
1 assist
His influence, especially in the second half, was huge.
🧵Today we are launching an emoji for the #MilkTeaAlliance, an online solidarity alliance first started in April 2020 as a Twitter meme which has grown into a global pro-democracy movement led by activists and concerned citizens in 🇭🇰🇹🇭🇹🇼🇲🇲 and around the world.
🧵Today we are launching an emoji for the #MilkTeaAlliance, an online solidarity alliance first started in April 2020 as a Twitter meme which has grown into a global pro-democracy movement led by activists and concerned citizens in 🇭🇰🇹🇭🇹🇼🇲🇲 and around the world.
THREAD:
Donny van de Beek didn't have a SINGLE TOUCH on the ball yesterday—literally NONE—and yet he was a major reason why Mason Greenwood scored the winner. How?
Movement.
#AndyLi has served 7 months in jail in China.
He has now been returned to #HongKong, unlawfully interrogated, and taken by the authorities to an undisclosed location.
They think nobody will notice or care.
They’re wrong.
BREAKING:
47 #HongKong politicians and/or activists have been prosecuted under National Security Law on 28 Feb.
Worse still, the lawyer who represents 9 out of 47 arrestees are arrested outside the court tonight. The police refused to comment on the arrest.
Source: Stand News
#BREAKING: A committee in Hong Kong’s legislature today approved an amendment proposed by the security bureau that enables the government to bar people from leaving the city. The bill will be deliberated in the general meeting, and will take effect as early as August 1 if passed.