13 Dec 2023獨媒#2662
Tang Ying-kit the Finale “Protagonist” of TVB National Security Law Programme; Says in Prison Interview: “I Had Become One-sided in My Thinking”
無綫翡翠台昨晚播出《有法安國》的國安法資訊節目，《香港國安法》首案被告唐英傑成為壓軸「主角」，身穿啡色囚衣，側身背對鏡頭接受訪問稱：「諗埋咗一邊，嗰個思緒呀，被當其時嘅社會氣氛影響咗，會覺得除咗用暴力，好似解決唔到（問題）。」對於駕駛電單車撞向警員，唐英傑就稱，「當其時就純粹興起嘅」，並提到近日獲懲教署給予機會，讓其在立德學院成立儀式上擔任升旗手。
TVB’s Jade channel broadcast the national security law information programme “With the Law, the Country Is Secure” last night, with Tang Ying-kit, the defendant in the first case under the Hong Kong National Security Law, as its finale “protagonist”. Wearing a brown prison uniform and shown side-on with his back to the camera, he said in an interview: “I had become one-sided in my thinking. My thoughts were influenced by the social atmosphere at the time, and I felt that, apart from using violence, it seemed there was no way to resolve (the problem).” Regarding riding a motorcycle into police officers, Tang said, “At the time, it was purely an impulse.” He also said that he had recently been given the opportunity by the Correctional Services Department to serve as a flag raiser at the founding ceremony of Lide Academy.
8 Dec 2023獨媒#8780
Hillway Culture Announces Closure; Founder to Move Overseas
本地出版社山道文化宣布將於今年尾結業，創辦人之一Sam明年會移居海外。山道文化過去曾出版反修例運動中「爆眼教師」楊子俊的《逆權教師》、前立法會議員邵家臻《石牆生花─坐監記及其他（增訂版）》等書藉。2022年，山道文化欲參加香港書展但被貿發局DQ，之後另覓場地舉辦的「香港人書展」亦於開幕前一日遭場主中止租約，終要改為「網上書展」。
Local publisher Hillway Culture announced that it will close at the end of this year, and one of its founders, Sam, will move overseas next year. Hillway Culture previously published books including *Teacher with an Injured Eye* Yeung Tze-chun’s *Teacher Against the Powers That Be* and former Legislative Council member Sha Kachim’s *Flowers Blooming on Stone Walls: Prison Memoirs and Other Writings (Revised Edition)*. In 2022, Hillway Culture sought to participate in the Hong Kong Book Fair but was disqualified by the Trade Development Council. The “Hong Kong People’s Book Fair”, which was subsequently organised at another venue, also had its lease terminated by the venue owner one day before its opening and ultimately had to be held as an “online book fair”.
6 Dec 2023獨媒#8774
Refusal to Disclose Media List for Xi Jinping’s Hong Kong Visit; Complaint Not Substantiated — Ombudsman: Could Help Terrorists Evade Security
國家主席習近平去年出席香港回歸25周年暨第六屆特區政府就職典禮，多間傳媒因為「保安理由」被拒出席採訪。有傳媒機構要求新聞處提供獲准採訪回歸活動的完整傳媒名單，以及揀選機構準則的指引、政策或通訊文件，惟遭新聞處拒絕。該傳媒機構遂向申訴專員公署投訴，公署最終認為投訴不成立，並指國家領導人及外國元首是「高價值的施襲目標」，認同需要最嚴格的保安安排。公署又稱披露獲邀傳媒名單有風險，或讓「恐怖份子」推斷出保安查核機制的運作，日後可規避。
Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the celebrations for the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to the motherland and the inauguration ceremony of the sixth-term HKSAR Government last year. Several media organisations were denied access to cover the events for “security reasons”. A media organisation requested that the Information Services Department provide the full list of media organisations approved to cover the return anniversary events, as well as any guidelines, policies or correspondence documents on the criteria for selecting the organisations, but the department refused. The organisation then lodged a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman. The Ombudsman ultimately found the complaint unsubstantiated, saying that national leaders and foreign heads of state are “high-value targets for attack” and agreeing that the strictest security arrangements were necessary. The Ombudsman also said that disclosing the list of invited media organisations could pose risks, potentially enabling “terrorists” to infer how the security vetting mechanism operates and evade it in future.
5 Dec 2023獨媒#8759
Shot "Tsang Chi Kin" Appears on TVB National Security Law Programme, Says Rehabilitation Programme Taught Him to Avoid Incitement and Instigation
在2019年10月1日荃灣衝突中，被警方開槍射中胸口的「健仔」曾志健，早前承認暴動、襲警及妨礙司法公正罪共被判監禁47個月。無綫翡翠台昨晚播出名為《有法安國》的國安法資訊節目，曾志健亮相其中，稱在參加了懲教署推出的「沿途有『理』」計劃後，學會在做事之前諗清諗楚，「避免唔好俾人煽動同埋唆擺」。
Tsang Chi-kin, who was shot in the chest by police during the Tsuen Wan clashes on October 1, 2019, earlier admitted to riot, assaulting a police officer and perverting the course of justice, and was sentenced to 47 months in prison. TVB Jade broadcast a national security law information programme titled “A Lawful Nation” last night, in which Tsang said that after taking part in the Correctional Services Department’s “Reason Along the Way” programme, he had learned to think carefully before acting, “to avoid being incited and instigated by others.”
4 Dec 2023光傳媒#8746
Ming Pao Ends Taiwan Scholar Ho Ming-shiu’s Column After Editing Title on ‘Diversity of Taiwan’s Independent Bookstores’
專門研究香港社會運動的國立臺灣大學社會學系教授何明修在Facebook透露，其《明報》專欄近日被終止，編輯在電郵未有明言原因，僅稱「很多都是一開始未能預見的」。何明修又披露早前有一篇稿件標題是「台灣獨立書店的多元化」，編輯事先沒有問他，就改成「獨立書店在台經營」，更感慨：「這五年多來，香港變了，台灣變了，世界也變了，我們都是同一批的時空過客，只是會前往不同的方向。天佑台灣，天佑香港！」《光傳媒》統計資料，過去兩年《明報》至少有7個專欄被終止。
Ho Ming-shiu, a professor in the Department of Sociology at National Taiwan University who specialises in Hong Kong social movements, said on Facebook that Ming Pao had recently ended his column. An editor did not give a specific reason in an email, saying only that “many things could not have been foreseen at the beginning”. Ho also disclosed that an earlier article titled “Diversity of Taiwan’s Independent Bookstores” had been changed by the editor, without asking him beforehand, to “Independent Bookstores Operating in Taiwan”. He wrote: “Hong Kong has changed, Taiwan has changed, and the world has changed over these past five-plus years. We are all travellers passing through the same time and space, but we will head in different directions. May God protect Taiwan; may God protect Hong Kong!” According to statistics compiled by Light Media, at least seven Ming Pao columns were ended over the past two years.
1 Dec 2023Channel C#8734
South China Morning Post Reporter Chan Min-lei Missing After Reporting Trip to Beijing; Journalists’ Association Says It Is “Highly Concerned” and Investigating
日本《共同社》昨日（30日）引述知情人士指，《南華早報》資深記者陳敏莉（Minnie Chan）10月29日至31日到北京採訪「香山論壇」後失蹤，至今已有一個月。香港記者協會今日（1日）發聲明指，十分關注陳敏莉的安危，正向《南華早報》了解事件。
Japan’s Kyodo News yesterday (30th), citing people familiar with the matter, reported that senior South China Morning Post reporter Chan Min-lei (Minnie Chan) went to Beijing from 29 to 31 October to cover the Xiangshan Forum and has been missing for a month. The Hong Kong Journalists Association said in a statement today (1st) that it is highly concerned about Chan Min-lei’s safety and is seeking information about the matter from the South China Morning Post.
29 Nov 2023光傳媒#8717
British Media Documentary Exposes Fake Journalist Who Approached Lau Chor-dik for Information; He Had Worked as an “English Teacher” in China
英國公共廣播頻道《Channel 4》今（29日）晚將播出紀錄片節目《Dispatches》，調查香港社運人士如何遭監視，例如有白人假扮加拿大媒體《多倫多衛報》記者，邀請被港警懸紅通緝的劉祖廸做訪問，但《多倫多衛報》表明並無僱用此人，紀錄片團隊使用面部識別軟件追蹤到這位自稱是記者的人，指他實際是曾在上海擔任英語教師的美國男子。中國駐倫敦大使館表示，涉嫌間諜活動的指控是「純粹的虛假信息」。
The British public broadcaster Channel 4 will air the documentary programme Dispatches tonight (29th), investigating how Hong Kong activists have been subjected to surveillance. It reports that a white man posing as a reporter for the Canadian media outlet The Toronto Guardian invited Lau Chor-dik, who is wanted by Hong Kong police with a bounty on his head, for an interview. The Toronto Guardian said it had not employed the man. Using facial-recognition software, the documentary team traced the self-styled journalist and said he was actually an American man who had worked as an English teacher in Shanghai. The Chinese Embassy in London said the allegations of espionage were “pure disinformation”.
27 Nov 2023獨媒#8700
TVB plans to merge J2 with Finance, Sports & Information Channel; Ztore to cease operations next month, 300 jobs cut
無綫宣布重組電視廣播及電子商貿業務，包括擬向政府交還一條免費電視頻道，即由現時5條減到4條，J2台會與財經體育資訊台合併成新頻道「TVB+」，裁員逾200人。另外「士多」則會合併至「鄰住買」，前者在12月19日停運，約100人將離職。
TVB announced a restructuring of its television broadcasting and e-commerce businesses, including a proposal to return one free-to-air television channel to the Government, reducing the number from five to four. J2 will merge with the Finance, Sports & Information Channel to form a new channel, “TVB+”, with more than 200 jobs to be cut. Ztore will also be merged into Neighbour Buy; Ztore will cease operations on 19 December, and about 100 employees will leave.
22 Nov 2023獨媒#8680
John Lee praises Bastille Post as government’s “Red Team” outside government, says it has “oxygen”
「巴士的報」創辦人盧永雄既是選委會第二界別成員，有份提名李家超選特首之餘，其後加入其競選辦公室負責網上輿論。今日「巴士的報」舉行十周年午宴，李家超出席致辭，盛讚盧永雄是「政府以外的Red Team（紅隊）作用」，稱令政府施政更貼近市民。他又讚「巴士的報」是新聞界中「有心、有熱力、有氧氣的」帶領者。
Bastille Post founder Lo Wing-hung is a member of the Election Committee’s Second Sector. In addition to nominating John Lee for Chief Executive, he later joined Lee’s campaign office to oversee online public opinion. Speaking at Bastille Post’s 10th-anniversary luncheon today, Lee praised Lo as providing a “Red Team” role outside the government, saying this made the government’s administration more closely aligned with the public. He also praised Bastille Post as a leader in the news industry with “heart, passion and oxygen.”
21 Nov 2023光傳媒#8674
Mystery buyer pays HK$760,000 for appledaily.com domain
《光傳媒》早前報道，《蘋果日報》的域名（domain name）appledaily.com上月被人登記註冊，《光傳媒》進一步發現，該域名易手價高達9.75萬美元，折合超過76萬港元。香港互聯網協會董事Edmon分析，appledaily.com域名擁有大量真實流量，商業價值相當高，認為成交價格合理。另外，該域名的新買家相當神秘，《光傳媒》以傳媒身份聯絡該網頁留下的電郵地址，了解是否域名的買家及具體業務，卻被反問「為甚麼問我這些問題？」
Light Media earlier reported that the appledaily.com domain name of Apple Daily had been registered by someone last month. Light Media subsequently found that the domain changed hands for US$97,500, equivalent to more than HK$760,000. Edmon, a director of the Hong Kong Internet Society, said the appledaily.com domain had a large amount of genuine traffic and considerable commercial value, and considered the transaction price reasonable. The domain’s new buyer is also highly secretive. When Light Media contacted the email address left on the website in its capacity as a media organisation to ask whether the person was the domain buyer and about the specific business involved, the person responded by asking, “Why are you asking me these questions?”
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