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Today, March 27th is
🎂Chiikawa Pocket’s 1st Anniversary!🎂
Chiikawa Pocket celebrates its 1st Anniversary today!⭐
This milestone is all thanks to your amazing support.
Thank you so much!🍀
To show our appreciation, here is a special commemorative video!✨
Tai Po fire: This from Al-Jazeera 👇Meanwhile, on the ground, there isn't so much focus now on bamboo scaffolding (much of which has remained intact.)
Police Senior Superintendent Eileen Chung said firefighters suspected that the netting, mesh, canvas and plastic sheeting installed on the buildings did not meet fire safety requirements. https://t.co/F7AMPMSlcK
.@adamwithnall's piece does something deeply irresponsible: it takes a tragedy and uses it to push a simplistic conclusion--“the bamboo has to go” without evidence, without understanding HK’s construction practice, and with a clear cultural bias. It is Orientalism.
Anyone who has watched even one video knows the white plastic/fabric netting ignited first. It is highly flammable. It burns fast and drips fire.
The bamboo, by contrast, is still standing on multiple blocks even after the blaze. If bamboo were the problem, it would have collapsed.
Claiming bamboo “spread the fire” is simply false.
Bamboo isn’t a quaint “quirky throwback.”
It is a highly skilled, engineered system honed across decades, one that works specifically well because Hong Kong’s dense, humid, high-rise environment. If bamboo scaffolding were as unsafe as the article implies, Hong Kong would have had constant large-scale fires. We haven’t. This was the first Level 5 fire in 17 years.
Blaming bamboo because it “looks traditional” is lazy and prejudiced reporting.
Calling bamboo “quirky,” a “throwback,” and suggesting that Hongkongers should fear the sight of scaffolding the next morning is pure Orientalism. This is a textbook Western lens:
Western methods = modern, safe
Local methods = outdated, dangerous
Hong Kong uses bamboo because it works, not because the city is nostalgic or backward.
In honor of #NationalCatDay, we'll add more Flerkens for every 100 Reposts.
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Fans of hk girl group COLLAR member Rejena Simkhada/Day Hui is celebrating her birthday on June 4th (2002) in Mong Kok , police see it as “a sensitive day” and told them to leave. Yeah, birthdays not allowed.
The fact that a journalists' club now feels it necessary to seek legal advice before using free speech to defend freedom of the media itself speaks volumes about freedom of the media in HK.
https://t.co/VZ42m0NFDV
The ability to simultaneously insult both an entire category of democratically elected representatives and hundreds of thousands of migrant domestic workers is something only a representative of HK’s ruling class could pull off with a straight face.