Not sure what translation engine did they use

Hong Kong’s restaurants are suffering a summer slump in business as locals head across the border and mainland Chinese tourists watch their spending.

“We’ve had days where we have done zero covers on a Saturday night which is just unheard of.”

My latest:
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Chinese state-owned enterprises have over the past months dropped Mayer Brown, sources told the Financial Times, following the US-founded law firm withdrawing representation of the University of Hong Kong to remove the Pillar of Shame in 2021
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It's not X, it's not the platform formerly known as Twitter...it's Twitter. It's just Twitter.

If some rich guy bought my whole town and renamed it, I wouldn't start calling it 'The town formerly known as Missoula.'

It would still be Missoula, just like this is still Twitter.

#BREAKING : A weeks-long whale frenzy in Hong Kong concluded after its carcass was buried at a restricted site in the city’s northeast. Our photographer Sam Tsang captures the ceremonial scene as workers cover it with a black cloth. sc.mp/pkwo?utm_sourc… via South China Morning Post

Last week was founded dead the whale who was near the coast of HK. It was injured and it is believed that the tourist boats that came to see it were to blame. Here is a list of other marine species that would have to be protected. Edited by Ezra Cheung and SCMP Graphics

#BREAKING : Many blamed heedless sightseers for the death of a young Bryde’s whale that had ventured into the city two weeks ago. Conservationists said it was high time authorities learn from the incident and protect the city’s rich waters. sc.mp/zv5y?utm_sourc… via South China Morning Post

Caught Between China and Russia, Mongolia Seeks Closer U.S. Ties—Landlocked country casts itself as a democratic outpost in Asia with resources to power clean-energy transition
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This is actually more to this story: I spoke with expert Malaysian conservationist Wong Siew Te who says not many pple know about sun bears. How they often stand up to investigate their surroundings, how they are usually fat and round (their skin starts to sag if food is scarce)

#BREAKING : The whale carcass discovered Monday morning in Hong Kong’s eastern waters was dissected the other day for a necropsy. Conservationists flocked to criticise authorities for failing to provide enough protection, leading to its death. sc.mp/ccan?utm_sourc… via South China Morning Post

#BREAKING : A whale carcass found Monday morning was believed to be the Bryde’s whale spotted in Hong Kong’s eastern waters two weeks ago. The mammal had enthralled spectators and intrigued experts trying to assess the reason for its visit. sc.mp/rx9s?utm_sourc… via South China Morning Post

Hello, The New York Times is looking for a stringer to help us cover Indonesia. This person needs to be:
- fluent in Bahasa Indonesia and English
- be readily available to cover breaking news
Please send me an email with your CV if you are interested at [email protected]

#BREAKING : Two Hong Kong government sources said chief executive John Lee still felt there was “room to bargain” even though the Washington Post reported about the entry ban, especially because the White House had not confirmed the report. sc.mp/7438?utm_sourc… via @scmpnews

The #Barbie movie is gaining traction in China

“This movie really just flew under the radar” of censors, said Columbia University’s Leta Hong Fincher

“There hasn’t been anything this big … that is so explicitly feminist in China”

w/ Gloria Li
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#BREAKING : Hong Kong's High Court refused to grant a ban on 'Glory to Hong Kong', a song that originated during the city's 2019 democracy protests.

The government last month applied for an injunction to stop acts such as broadcast and performance, citing national security.🧵

Scoop from Ellen Nakashima : the US will bar the sanctioned HK chief executive John Lee from APEC: washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

National security threats in HK are not just about well known activists and politicians. There are ppl from all walks of life whose names you have seldom, if not never, heard of, caught by the sedition offence and convicted at the lowest level of court:

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I have no clear answers on whether or how Qin Gang was removed from the State Council. But the State Council organizational list now names Wang Yi as its foreign ministry member. gov.cn/gwyzzjg/

Yu Chun Keung Memorial College in Kowloon, was ahead of others when it started using ChatGPT in classes for non-science subjects in January, just two months after it was unveiled by Microsoft-backed OpenAI. scmp.com/news/hong-kong…

Authoritarian governments seek to crush democracy movements not just by silencing key voices, but turning them against each other. They make “making citizens doubt the political relationships they rely upon.” Latest from Timothy McLaughlin :
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