China Shuts Down an Annual Hong Kong Exhibition Commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre
Some fear the closure is another sign that mainland China’s pro-democracy crackdown is now targeting Hong Kong.
June 2, 2021
Flowers at the June 4th Museum in Hong Kong, China, 30 May 2021. Photo: Vernon Yuen/NurPhoto via Getty Images.
An annual temporary exhibition in Hong Kong dedicated to the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre has been shut down by Chinese authorities just three days before the anniversary of the event.
Critics say the move is part of a broader government crackdown on pro-democracy protests in mainland China that has in recent years increasingly targeted events in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong's June 4 Museum is the only museum in Greater China that memorializes the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing in 1989. But its days may be numbered.
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2 Jun 2021
Hong Kong’s June 4 Museum – whose exhibits preserve the memory of the Tiananmen Square massacre, despite the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) efforts to erase it from history – announced on Wednesday it must temporarily close due to a licensing investigation.
According to museum officials, Hong Kong’s Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) turned up at the building on Tuesday and declared it did not have the necessary license for running a public entertainment venue.
The June 4 Museum was established in 2012 by the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, which has also organized massive candlelight vigils and marches to commemorate the Tiananmen Square massacre for the past three decades. Alliance spokesman Richard Tsoi told reporters on Monday that the museum has never before been asked for the license that FEHD is now demanding.
June 01, 2021
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Sushi restaurants are popular in Hong Kong, a city known for its vast food and beverage scene. But many diners may not realise they might be consuming an endangered species when they eat at one.
According to a study by researchers at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), almost 90 per cent of eel products sold at 80 randomly selected licensed sushi restaurants in the city come from critically endangered or endangered species.
The researchers used DNA analysis to examine eel products, including roasted eel and sushi, sold in the restaurants - all with permits obtained from the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department - between May and June 2020.