country:hong-kong

Show 611
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Field recordings realised in Hong-Kong during the mentorship program organised by soundpocket, between October 2014 and April 2015. Composed in Spring 2016.

Tai Po Kau, I couldn’t imagine such a peaceful forest as a first intimate contact with this territory. A harbour in Chai-Wan, the light and the heat, a meeting on the pier, someone borrowed my equipment. Lamma Island and its rural landscapes, a place where my guide and friend should own a house. The street intersections are sonified by a system which adapt the level of its signals by measuring the intensity of the sound of the traffic. The intentions are probably good, trying to preserve a little bit of the relative quietness, but made me feel like my aural sensitivity was alternatively increasing and decreasing. Mai Po (...)

▻http://www.radiopanik.org/media/sounds/radia/show-611_03121__1.mp3

Hong Kong’s McRefugees
▻http://blog.apimages.com/2015/11/12/mcrefugee

As other diners in the McDonald’s enjoyed their Big Macs past midnight early last month, no one noticed the middle-aged woman who appeared to be sleeping at her table.
The woman, wearing a grey coat and slippers, abruptly slumped over at about 1:20 a.m., according to surveillance camera footage.
It wasn’t until the next morning that a customer found the woman was cold and unresponsive. The police were called at 8:30 a.m., about 24 hours after the woman first entered the restaurant, according to a report in the South China Morning Post.

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Filipino Domestic Worker Earns Prestigious Magnum Fellowship for Her Photography

For the past 10 years, 27-year-old #Xyza_Cruz_Bacani has been working as a domestic worker for a wealthy Chinese family in Hong Kong. On her days off, she brings her camera onto her city’s sidewalks and captures impressive street photos.

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Judge refuses provisional warrant for Snowden - RTÉ News
▻http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0708/461286-edward-snowden

Après le refus de Hong-Kong celui de l’Irlande

Mr Justice Colm Mac Eochaidh refused the application this weekend, saying the grounds were too general.

In his judgment he wrote that: “An extradition request is required to state as accurately as possible the time and place of commission of the alleged offence or offences”.

He went on to write that: "My conclusion in this matter is that the request made on 5th July 2013 by the United States of America through its Embassy in Dublin fails to indicate the place where any of the offences took place.

“Therefore, I am compelled to refuse the application by the United States of America for a provisional Arrest Warrant in respect of Mr Edward J Snowden.”

Tell the US government to go fuck itself, most diplomatically - the Hong-Kong government shows you how it is done:
▻http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201306/23/P201306230476.htm
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