Nick Chan

HK local born in the 80's

[iPaul @iPaulCanada]

六四从未公开的画面。这是英国独立电视新闻的前线记者冒死拍摄、偷送出境的影像，受限于当年新闻篇幅，只播出了不到20秒，剩下的99%，一直被封存于地下片库，长达30多年直到2026年5月，这段含现场杂音的「完整原始母带」，第一次公之于众。

[Nick Chan @magicnic22]

@broodsugar Only make sense if one does not have kids. If the US is ruled the same way HK is, US schools would forever tout Trump as the beloved leader and jailing those who publicly disagrees.

[李老师不是你老师 @whyyoutouzhele]

3月26日，美国国务院发布《香港��游警示》：
2026年3月23日，香港政府修改《国家安全法》的执行细则。从现在开始，如果拒绝向香港警方提供密码或协助解密，以供警方检查个人电子设备（包括手机、笔记本电脑等），将构成刑事犯罪。
这项法律适用于所有在香港境内的人，包括正在香港的美国公民，以及在香港国际机场入境或「转机」的旅客。

[Luke de Pulford @lukedepulford]

❌Books you can’t buy in Hong Kong:

Biography of innocent British citizen Jimmy Lai

✅ Books you can buy in Hong Kong:

Mein Kampf

[Nick Chan @magicnic22]

@MarkTarrant9 That's a beautiful piece of art. History will prove Jimmy right.

[Mark Tarrant @MarkTarrant9]

A sad day for Hong Kong with Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison. I bought my t-shirts from his first 'Giordano' store in Nathan Rd, Kowloon in 1981.
A HKSAR Government Official has filed a complaint against me with the NSW Legal Services Commissioner for displaying my life-size neon artwork 'Jimmy Lai in Chains' in Sydney & Brisbane.

[Luke de Pulford @lukedepulford]

This is Jimmy Lai.

[Iain Duncan Smith MP Chingford & Woodford Green @MPIainDS]

Today’s so-called guilty verdict against Jimmy Lai lays bare the utter hollowness of justice in Hong Kong. This was not a trial conducted under the rule of law; it was a political exercise designed to silence a man whose only crime is believing in freedom of speech.

The charges of “national security” and “sedition” are entirely trumped-up, weaponised under Beijing’s draconian National Security Law to crush dissent and intimidate others into silence. The judges who presided over this case did not uphold justice they enforced repression. Their verdict is a shameful endorsement of authoritarian control masquerading as law.

Jimmy Lai is a British citizen. He is a devout Catholic. Yet he is held in prolonged solitary confinement, denied proper consular access and deprived of religious support, as the Chinese Communist Party seeks to break him physically and spiritually. His health is deteriorating, and his family are rightly deeply concerned.

The British government cannot continue with business as usual. The Prime Minister @10DowningStreet should not set foot in Beijing while a British citizen is imprisoned for exercising fundamental freedoms. We must impose travel bans and asset freezes on those directly responsible for this judicial farce including; Judges Esther Toh, Alex Lee, and Susana D’Almada Remedios.

This case is not just about Jimmy Lai. It is about whether we are prepared to stand up to the destruction of free speech and the rule of law in Hong Kong or whether we look away while courage is punished and tyranny is rewarded. #FreeJimmyLai
@SupportJimmyLai @Keir_Starmer

[Benedict Rogers 羅傑斯 @benedictrogers]

855 pages of lies and propaganda

#JimmyLai has been unjustly convicted by a kangaroo court in a police state

Now @Keir_Starmer @YvetteCooperMP must do everything possible to #FreeJimmyLai, a British citizen, and other governments must do so too

[Samuel Bickett @SamuelBickett]

Notably absent, again, is any acknowledgment by the Foreign Office that Jimmy Lai is a UK citizen. Why does the UK continue to stop short of treating this as the detention of one of its own? Because it might compel them to act?

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇭🇰 159 PEOPLE DIED IN HONG KONG BECAUSE THE SYSTEM KEPT SAYING “NOT MY PROBLEM”

Before the flames tore through Wang Fuk Court and took at least 159 lives, the warnings were everywhere.

They were written into safety violations, buried in consultant slides, shouted by residents, and shrugged off by officials.

What burned on late Nov was a system that had been rotting in plain sight.

Prestige Construction, now the centerpiece of a manslaughter probe, didn’t drop out of the sky. The firm had apparently racked up 15 safety violations, fines, and even a temporary government ban.

Yet residents were told - incorrectly - that Prestige’s record was spotless. That claim came not from Prestige, but from Will Power Architects, the consultant hired to vet the bids.

That “clean record” stamp is now Exhibit A in a collapse of oversight stretching from the contractors to the homeowners’ board to the Labour Department itself, which told residents they faced “relatively low fire risks” while flammable mesh and foam boards hung inches from their windows.

The residents saw it first: workers smoking on scaffolding, substandard materials, fast-rising costs, and a contractor pushing for early payments.

They tried to revolt. They gathered signatures. They demanded a special meeting. It took 7 months, a typhoon, and 1,200 people standing in the rain to force new leadership onto the board.

But by then the trap was already set.

A lawyer warned that canceling Prestige’s contract could make homeowners liable for damages - a threat vague enough to paralyze action, precise enough to stick.

The project limped on, under “supervision,” while safety fears mounted.

And then, everything residents predicted came true.

The mesh failed. The foam boards ignited. The building became a chimney.

Wong - the retired electrician photographed in anguish as flames engulfed the home where his wife was trapped - had been tearing out flammable panels and spraying the scaffolding with water for months.

He knew. Everyone knew. Except, apparently, the people paid to know.

This is where the story stops being local.

It’s the playbook: consultants assuring, regulators deflecting, contractors cutting corners, residents ignored until the smoke is visible from space.

Hong Kong’s housing safety regime didn’t malfunction - it performed exactly as designed, pushing responsibility downward while keeping liability vaporized.

Prestige and Will Power won’t be the last names in this scandal. Once investigators pull the procurement thread - who knew what, who signed what, who checked nothing - this stops being a construction failure and becomes a governance failure.

And that’s a far more combustible material.

Source: Reuters

[Nick Chan @magicnic22]

@serpentza @Fcyene I had to say, the CCP shills in the past were much better. I guess they can’t afford proper ones anymore.

[hailey @haileyhmt]

For the Hong Kong Fire, we built an open, centralised database to preserve all verifiable information, news reports, footage, technical analyses, contractor details, volunteer/community support records, official responses, and follow-up developments.

[Luke de Pulford @lukedepulford]

Hong Kong’s CCP puppets so terrified of civil society that they will not even let people assist fire victims, let alone demand to know why so many people died in a preventable tragedy.

[Samuel Bickett @SamuelBickett]

The fire disaster in Hong Kong is a big test of whether there is any space for public advocacy left in the city. So far, it seems not: a student who organized a mild petition calling for official accountability has been arrested.

[Nick Chan @magicnic22]

@strtandnarrow @littlenewsnetwk @elonmusk That “a lot of space” is shrinking by the year, thanks to climate change

[Nick Chan @magicnic22]

@taresky Euler… 放貸用户���賣了也控告不了誰

[Nick Chan @magicnic22]

@CryptoNobler If you think rate cuts are cancelled, go get the 50 to 1 odds on Polymarket.

[Nick Chan @magicnic22]

@0xSiuwawa 先瘋牛再深熊

[Nick Chan @magicnic22]

@BensonTWN 白事當作紅事辦，這件事很中共