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[Joel Chan @kjoules]

Hong Kong's low score in the 2024 World Happiness Report is due to its abysmal Dystopia + Residual score; i.e. the aspects of life in Hong Kong that contribute to happiness are not significantly better than those in a hypothetical Dystopia with the worst conditions possible

[Webb-site @webbhk]

Breaking: Phase 3, the bulk of the #HK Govt's "Trade Single Window" software project for trade documents has already gone horribly over budget. Originally at HK$1.4bn, the tender was recently awarded to "Aisino-Varmeego Joint Venture" for HK$3.01bn. https://t.co/78JuAb3SW3

[Air-Moving Device @AirMovingDevice]

Thread: Search for Beijing/Shanghai/other cities in Chinese on Twitter and you'll mostly see ads for escorts/porn/gambling, drowning out legitimate search results.
Data analysis in this thread suggests that there has been a *significant* uptick in these spam tweets.

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

China under watch.

#AFPGraphics on the estimated number of CCTV cameras in Chinese cities compared with other cities around the world

[Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hkfp]

Deadly Xinjiang fire stirs anger at China’s zero-Covid policy, Urumqi mayor apologises

https://t.co/4d8w0sIy8L

[Stephen McDonell @StephenMcDonell]

In reference to what the doctor said above re #China’s hospital ICU unit capacity… #ZeroCovid

[Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hkfp]

Hong Kong to see up to 45.6% year-on-year increase in electricity rates in January

https://t.co/sFAkAofGIW

[Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hkfp]

Hong Kong's economy is taking a battering, the government revealed on Friday, as it grapples with strict Covid controls, geopolitical tensions, rising interest rates across the globe and waning demand.

[シュゴウ @shugou17]

図書館の資料修復技術を駆使し、カピカピになったポイ捨てエロ本を蘇らせ、少年時代の雪辱を晴らした男の10日間の物語。
https://t.co/n0SsEYlKPh

[Bloomberg Graphics @BBGVisualData]

Signal, Starlink and air raid alarm app downloads surged in Ukraine. Russians flocked to VPNs. What trending apps are telling us about life during the war https://t.co/MKAGek6H27

[Ruben Mathisen @rubenbmathisen]

Who arms whom? I made a graph showing each country’s largest arms supplier. Two major clusters emerge.

(I borrowed the visual design from @sundellviz's excellent graphs on global trade). #dataviz

[Visual Capitalist @VisualCap]

The Problem With Our Maps 🗺️

Explore the other maps in detail here: https://t.co/Nfvmhm6saP

[Selina Cheng @selina_cheng]

Here's your likelihood of death depending on vaccine brands & dosage, if you're an 80+ yo. HA & CHP denied having these statistics when HKFP asked back in February.

[Reuters @Reuters]

Breakingviews - China’s politics have wrecked its markets https://t.co/rCuJSwliee

[HKO Earthquake M6.0+ @HKOEARTHQUAKE6E]

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

[Econ記者 @econreporter]

"We have one guy – I don't know who he is, but he came through a broker – and they're like, 'we want to sell 125,000 bitcoin'. And I'm like, 'what? That's $6 billion guys'. And they're like, 'yeah, we're going to send it to a company in Australia'," https://t.co/ncCrpKZzkt

[Aaron Busch @tripperhead]

Keen press conference observers may have notice that the Chief Executive has taken full advantage of the hair salons reopening today.

Related note: Hair salons and barber shops have reopened today.

#GreyHairsBegone

[Alexandra Stevenson @jotted]

🧵Overrun hospitals, depleted ambulance services, morgues with no more space. Shelves cleared out at supermarkets. A run on pain and fever medications. You’d be forgiven for thinking this was early 2020. It's not. It's Hong Kong today https://t.co/bI2y9OXsij