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Eric Cheung

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@GovAIOrg Summer Fellow (AI Policy Research) | @Cambridge_Uni MSt | Fmr @CNN field producer in Taiwan | eric@ericcheung.uk
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Dissent and creativity in Hong Kong

Dissent and creativity in Hong Kong

Rest of World — Christine worked quickly to transform a promotional poster originally designed for global telecoms company Three Hong Kong. The company's name is homophonic with "Free Hong Kong" - the message Christine and a group of graphic designers are committed to spreading throughout the city - which is now illegal to express.
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Burning threads: How a raucous internet forum became ground zero for the Hong Kong protests

Burning threads: How a raucous internet forum became ground zero for the Hong Kong protests

Rest of World — One afternoon this past October, Nick, a university student in Hong Kong, unlocked his smartphone and logged into LIHKG, a website that looked like a Cantonese-language version of Reddit. Nothing about the site's appearance suggested that it, along with the messaging app Telegram, had become the primary organizing center of protests that had been shaking the city for months.
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How a summer of protest pushed young Hong Kongers to the edge

How a summer of protest pushed young Hong Kongers to the edge

CNN International — Jim bent over, collapsed and started crying. The 16-year-old didn't want to abandon the injured man next to him. He applied gauze to stop the man's eye from gushing with blood, but he still was having trouble walking. Jim tried to carry him, but only made it a few feet.
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How a Hong Kong protest song became an unofficial 'anthem'

How a Hong Kong protest song became an unofficial 'anthem'

CNN International — In glitzy malls across Hong Kong, people are spontaneously breaking into a song. It's not just any tune -- it's a rousing ballad that some are calling the city's new, if unofficial "national anthem."
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We have only a decade to save Earth's biodiversity: that's why all of ...

We have only a decade to save Earth's biodiversity: that's why all of ...

South China Morning Post — Scientists warn that Earth's sixth mass extinction may be underway, and man may only have 10 years to take drastic steps and protect planet's vital plant and animal life.
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'Liberate Hong Kong': pre-election calls for independence from China grow

'Liberate Hong Kong': pre-election calls for independence from China grow

The Guardian — When Edward Leung closes his eyes and dreams of Hong Kong's future he pictures a utopian metropolis of skyscrapers and social justice, "where people can do whatever they want as long as it isn't harmful to others". "It's an international place. A cosmopolitan state," says the fashionable 25-year-old politics and philosophy graduate.
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Screened out? Film charting Hong Kong's umbrella movement struggles to be seen

Screened out? Film charting Hong Kong's umbrella movement struggles to be seen

The Guardian — As police tear gas rained down on student protesters, Chan Tsz-woon grabbed his Canon 50D camera and raced to the frontline. It was the night of 28 September 2014 and, as the umbrella movement protests erupted on the streets of Hong Kong, the young filmmaker decided it was his mission to make a visual record of the historic political convulsion.
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How design thinking pushes Hong Kong forward to a cashless future

How design thinking pushes Hong Kong forward to a cashless future

South China Morning Post — While Hong Kong has been slow in adopting digital payments, a mobile app has been leading the change with design thinking, an approach that puts user-centricity at the heart of product design.
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One of the few surviving buildings of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima may be demolished

One of the few surviving buildings of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima may be demolished

CNN International — An old garment depot that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and provided temporary shelter to victims within its concrete walls, could be partially demolished by local authorities 75 years later.
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