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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

This is very sad. David Webb’s collection of data has been a treasure trove for journalists and HongKongers alike. Thank you, Mr Webb, for all your hard work. Godspeed! webb-site.com/articles/shu...?

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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Hopefully by the time the 2034 World Cup comes round, the message it’s not okay to grope visiting supporters will have been heard. What a grim story. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Spanish FA apologises after Mallorca players’ families harassed in Jeddah

The RFEF president has apologised to Real Mallorca supporters six days after they were harassed at the Super Cup semi-final in Saudi Arabia

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Whipling @seanhaines.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Behind all the excitement of these TikTok escapees discovering Little Red, Chinese censors must be having kittens. Chinese public have a lifetime of inate self-censorship, ease to fit XHS's ToS. "Free speech" American kids? Not so much~ 🔮Surely many bans coming~ 🔮

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Mark Dreyer @dreyerchina.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Happy 2025! I started a Substack. Here's my first post: open.substack.com/pub/chinaspo...

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Li Tie and me

Chinese football legend is appealing his 20-year sentence for corruption

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Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 29/12/2024

The lesson being Hong Kong is horrible at organizing exhibition football

(SCMP headline) Editorial | Real Madrid event needs to be a lesson learned
• The disappointment of some football fans over a ‘meet-and-greet’ comes less than a year after Lionel Messi failed to play in an exhibition game

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Mark Dreyer @dreyerchina.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Four typos in four sentences for this BBC homepage piece on Vanuatu's earthquake. It's clear the editors were laid off there years ago, but what about Grammarly? AI? Or even a read through??

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Mark Dreyer @dreyerchina.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

A 20-year prison sentence was handed down to former Everton and China player and national team coach Li Tie today - "short" according to what he could have received for admitting bribery charges of more than $10m. Sad end to a truly groundbreaking career.

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Mark Dreyer @dreyerchina.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Qi Jun, former director of the strategic planning dept of the CFA, who was also team leader of the men's national team during the 2022 World Cup qualification campaign, was sentenced to 7 years today. Speculation in Chinese media that Li Tie's verdict could come as early as this week...

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Mark Dreyer @dreyerchina.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

That, and the fact that "Hong Kong" was the reason why the NBA hasn't played games in China since 2019. No point in giving the critics - and there will still be plenty critical of this move - the neat and tidy "full circle" ironic headline.

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Mark Dreyer @dreyerchina.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

NBA games are returning to China next October - six years since a single tweet derailed the league there. Covered this a LOT in my book, as all my worlds - comms, sports, China, US-China - collided. Expect plenty more rhetoric next year... apnews.com/article/nba-...

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NBA returning to China for pair of Suns-Nets preseason games in 2025, AP source says

The NBA is returning to China next season. The league has struck a deal to play preseason games there more than five years after the league was effectively banned for Commissioner Adam Silver not puni...

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Mark Dreyer @dreyerchina.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This is explosive. Summary: -WADA's investigation unit tells WADA that Chinese athletes are likely/historically taking trace amounts of TMZ. -WADA then learns Chinese athletes tested positive for trace amounts of TMZ. -But WADA does not inform its own investigation unit WADA --> not fit for purpose

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Mark Dreyer @dreyerchina.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Ohtani's 50/50 ball sold for $4.4m last month to Taiwanese investment firm UC Capital - a tenant of Taipei 101 - so they decided to put it up for viewing until March next year.

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JaredTNelson @jaredtnelson.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Bluesky now appears to be blocked in China

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Mark Dreyer @dreyerchina.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

🧵The Shanghai marathon takes place tomorrow, December 1. Last month, the Abbott World Marathon Majors (@worldmarathon.bsky.social) announced that Shanghai was in contention to join its elite races. A thread on why that might still happen - but why it probably shouldn't.

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Mark Dreyer @dreyerchina.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I remember the days long, long ago, when you could read stuff like this on Twitter. 10/10 thread.

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Mark Dreyer @dreyerchina.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

At an over/under of 10 days until Bluesky is blocked in China, I'm taking the under.

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Paul Mozur @paulmozur.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

First hot take on a new social network: international baseball needs to happen more. It’s Taiwan v Japan in the finals of the WBSC at the Tokyo Dome and the atmosphere is electric. Got dudes going headfirst into first. Fan chants booming. Half of Taiwan is watching. National honor on the line.

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Mark Dreyer @dreyerchina.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Tried the Hong Kong-Beijing overnight high-speed train journey last weekend. Overall: good, but seems like I was only overnight passenger in the cheap(er) seats, which were packed from HK-Changsha (7:30-11pm) and again from Shijiazhuang-BJ (5:30-7am), but deserted in between!

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Mark Dreyer @dreyerchina.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Remember Bing Dwen Dwen, the mascot of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics? Well, it's back - with some snake-themed hairstyles for the upcoming Year of the Snake!

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Mark Dreyer @dreyerchina.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

China lost 3-1 at home to Japan last night in 2026 World Cup qualifying, "a result that many considered worthy of praise", as per the Global Times, noting that "plenty of Chinese journalists burst into applause" at the end of coach Ivankovic's press conference. Tells you everything you need to know.

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