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Yuen Chan

@yuenchan.bsky.social
1.9K followers 654 following 1.5K posts

Was @xinwenxiaojie on the app formerly known as Twitter, where I was allegedly a bot and "sell-out blue-check boba Asian", possibly simultaneously. Hongkonger, South Londoner. Teaching journalism at City St George's, University of London.

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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 15h
She refuses to answer question of whether she thinks you can't be English if you're not white but says that she can't be racist against herself. And then, that people can call themselves whatever they want 🤯😵‍💫🤯 Makes my brain hurt & wonder if even posting this is helping make stupid people famous
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Back in the before times, in the summer of 2019, I was asked to write about the Hong Kong anti-ELAB protests. I started with a movement that from five years prior, in 2014: "a 79-day occupation movement that surprised the world no less than Hongkongers themselves." www.aljazeera.com/opinions/201...
aljazeera.com
What is next for Hong Kong’s protest movement?
The pro-democracy movement has scored another political victory, but can it continue resisting China's encroachment?
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
♥️
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ooooooh
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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 28/09/2026
World News Day: Why independent journalism is a lifeline for Hong Kong hongkongfp.com/2026/09/28/w...
hongkongfp.com
https://hongkongfp.com/2026/09/28/world-news-day-why-independent-journalism-is-a-lifeline-for-hong-kong
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Protect our women!
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I thought this was @nytpitchbot.bsky.social
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
AI would never be able to give us gems such as this! www.facebook.com/llchu/videos...
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1.6K views · 3.1K shares | 二零一六已來到, 齊做國旗大力操; 前前後後跳一跳, 平安健康好運道! | 朱立倫
二零一六已來到, 齊做國旗大力操; 前前後後跳一跳, 平安健康好運道!
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
自動筆,自動筆 Should be worked into Mandopop lyrics
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🤨
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This so wrong on so many levels. Journalism students: don't do this #反教材
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Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The ME Association have managed to acquire (via FOIA request) the report of the NHS stocktake of ME/CFS and Long Covid services that was completed at the end of January 2025. As expected, it is utterly inadequate. meassociation.org.uk/2025/05/nhs-...
meassociation.org.uk
NHS Stocktake of ME/CFS and Long Covid specialist referral services - The ME Association
**Trigger Warning: Upsetting content** Towards the end of 2024 NHS […]
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Let me know when the 'Danny Tommo' arrested story makes the BBC website landing page please.
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What even is the point of satire anymore?
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Nathan Ruser @nrg8000.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A BBC Verify investigation found that Apple Maps' censoring of Chinese Military and Government sites has included arbitrary detention sites in Xinjiang, including the prison where Ilham Tohti is detained. Watch the investigation.
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There is no journalistic reason why any news report would omit the fact that the self-styled 'Danny Tommo' slashed a dinghy with a rescue worker on board.
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The headline, the photo, the graphics and fonts shown in the photo - all so Hong Kong (not in a good way).
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please read the whole thread.
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
That's this year's Mid-Autumn bakes done. Now to wait for them to 回油 (literally 'return oil', or soften) before they can be eaten.🥮🐖
Rows of piglet shaped mooncake cookies in the foreground with rows round mooncakes behind them, on a metal cooling rack. Close-up of piglet shaped mooncake cookie next to round mooncakes.
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Also, the "lifted X people out of poverty" shtick is so annoying. As if people didn't have any agency in working themselves out of poverty once conditions allowed them to.
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
That's some funky-ass Cantonese she's spouting there.
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
That was a weird af hybrid of Mando and Canto. Like that wasn't any regular Chinese language (of the Chinese languages).
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Well yes, except this isn't very nice to Paw Patrol, whose members perform acts more akin to the RNLI than the blackshorts.
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Principality of Piddington?
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I keep misreading Binance as Binface
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
不問蒼生問鬼神?
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Behind every amazing woman is another amazing woman. There isn't a wasted word in these post-sentencing remarks from Chow Hang-tung's mother. This is what everyday resilience and fortitude looks like. 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhne...
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支聯會案判刑|與愛女一起留長髮同行 彤媽:佢唔係稱職嘅大狀,只係一個出色嘅被告!
YouTube video by 集誌社 The Collective HK
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
人民不會忘記
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
What hope indeed with these racists?
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Ryan Ho Kilpatrick 何松濤 @ryanhk.blue · 10/09/2026
Dow Jones' conviction for attempting to stop Selina from participating in a union is a small, partial victory for the press and labour rights in Hong Kong. But, unfortunately, what they did is not exceptional. I spoke with several journalists who said they were also discouraged from union activity.
chinamediaproject.org
Code of Silence - China Media Project
As the Wall Street Journal fires the head of Hong Kong’s biggest press union, sources tell us this is only the tip of the iceberg — across the board, international media are pressuring their Hong Kong...
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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 10/09/2026
BREAKING: A Hong Kong court has convicted the Wall Street Journal’s publisher of attempting to prevent a former reporter from taking up leadership of an embattled press union, but cleared it of unlawfully firing her. In full: buff.ly/KQGkBXg Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP.
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
One thing I would say about Tung Chee-hwa is that I don't think he was ever driven by personal ambition for power as CE, more a sense of old-fashioned patriotism and duty/gratitude to the motherland for bailing out his family business. Of course he protected the interests of his class.
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The absolute state of this. And the fact the team coach had to 'prove' his team's bona fides to the local Reform councillor, I can't even www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...
theguardian.com
Protesters outside Portsmouth hotel confuse Pakistan U19 cricket team for asylum seekers
Anti-immigration protesters gathered outside a Portsmouth hotel were forced to cancel their demonstration after discovering the Pakistan Under-19 cricket team rather than a group of asylum seekers wer...
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The fact that the RNLI has to state this is appalling. The fact that the truly courageous volunteers who put their lives on the line to save others are doxxed and abused by cowards hiding behind balacavas is even worse. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
theguardian.com
‘Their boat was sinking’: RNLI vows to keep rescuing asylum seekers despite attacks
Charity stresses small boat rescues are tiny part of its work and speaks out after volunteers abused by far-right agitators
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
They were able to do fascism tourism in Belfast, terrorise brown people, and then came back to England feeling energised to do more. All of this is in the open. The police knows about them too because everyone who spends more than 20 minutes looking into them can easily find out their info
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Serious questions to answer here. This must not be swept under the carpet.
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Good grief.
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Inciting hatred against people who save lives now.
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The RNLI have some of the best people in Britain volunteering for them. They put their lives on the line when they are called on and they will rescue anyone who needs them. Because every life matters, and offering help is the right thing to do. You can donate here: rnli.org
rnli.org
RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Saving Lives at Sea
The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions.
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Dereliction, appeasement, weakness.
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
So much for "engagement"
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Kent police said 'no arrests were made' of the people who blocked a port and roads. There's your two-tier policing, folks www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
bbc.co.uk
Port of Dover delays: Disruption as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roads
Hundreds of demonstrators, wearing black with their faces covered, caused delays to traffic reaching the port.
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Will it say: "noted with thanks"? Seriously, this is lovely.
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
All the receipts.
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Sunflowers and Santa. Christmas creep is out of control. Haven't even made mooncakes yet!
A supermarket display of Cadbury's Mini Snowballs and Dairy Milk Winter Wonderland chocolate bars. There is a pic of Santa with his finger to his lips with signage saying "Secret Santa 'Tis the season to treat. Display is next to buckets containing bunches of sunflowers for sale.
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Straight up racist incitement. And, um, you know why many people who left Hong Kong did so, right? Right?
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
What? No!
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Charles C Roseman @evoroseman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RE: freedom of speech, academic freedom, and race science. In this (long) thread, I’m going to 1) establish my bona fides on academic freedom and race science, 2) show why academic freedom and freedom of speech are different and… 1/34
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
In her tribute, @janefonda.com described Dolly Parton as the "voluptuous embodiment of empathy" and that's just gorgeous. The perfect rebuttal of the fake concept of "suicidal empathy".
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We will always love you
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