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Yuen Chan

@yuenchan.bsky.social
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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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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 12/10/2026
This is how private interests manufacture consent for policies that are NOT in our interest Private companies have extracted £90 billion in dividends since privatisation - and loaded them up with £72 billion in debt It is time for Andy Burnham to bring our water into public ownership!
Graphic that shows that the new report purporting to show that it would cost £105 billion to nationalise England's water was funded by Water UK, an organisation that represents private water companies.
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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 09/10/2026
Gov’t loses appeal against acquittal of former lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting over 2019 protest charge hongkongfp.com/2026/10/09/g...
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Gov’t loses appeal against acquittal of former lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting over 2019 protest charge
Hong Kong’s Department of Justice (DoJ) has lost its appeal against a lower court’s decision to acquit former lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting of a perverting the course of justice charge linked…
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
On the one hand, some people look at me and somehow don't understand my English. On the other, I've been told "If I didn't look at you, I could have sworn you were British". I mean, I speak pretty RP English, and have even been paid to do so on the radio and the telly, but whatevs, I suppose.
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
For those who have the pleasure of not knowing who Zippy from Rainbow is. rainbowtv.fandom.com/wiki/Zippy
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Zippy
“You see, the trouble with Zippy is, He always thinks he's right, and usually, he's totally wrong but he won't listen!” — Bungle, Zippy is a fictional character on the British children's television pr...
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If Burnham is Paddington, then Badenoch is ... Zippy from Rainbow?
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Every time I see another obit describing convicted liar, serial fabulist and fraudster Jeffrey Archer as "colourful" and downplaying his crimes and misdemeanours, I can't help comparing to the coverage of Jason Arday.
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
沒有最 只有更 There is no most, only more
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As a child of working class immigrants with a rich food culture, I somehow thought they were fancy and exotic, an extremely rare treat. I remember the notched sausage in a round with a half tomato in the middle. I thought that was well posh.
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Image of Hong Kong actor Eric Wan playing the character Fong Tin-yau in the cult TV series I Have a Date With a Vampire
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Look, if you clicked, that's kind of on you ...
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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...
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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...
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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
And more Gua Gua
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
with nattier suits and English soundbites
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
exact7ly
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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-...
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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
My transcription, there are some bits I can't make out: 阿,你是問 錯 (我?)電影裡其他人員嗎 係咪都係數字替身 像我一樣 XXX 一樣混合製作 XX 有真正嘅導演,編劇同 XX 嘅參與,但屏幕上嘅演員都係人工智能,即係一種全新嘅 。。。 It's basically a translation of what she says in English. It's weird accented Cantonese with some words in Mandarin.
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thanks, that took a turn!
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
And also the "Chinese" is a weird hybrid of Cantonese and Mandarin.
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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 · 17/09/2026
We need more pedestrian discourse. Nobody cares about pedestrians.
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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 · 15/09/2026
It's that time Krycek joined Mulder in the X-Files
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I love congee and marmite! even better with some crispy peanuts and spring onions.
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Pfffft xinwenxiaojie.medium.com/in-praise-of...
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In Praise of Hong Kong Macaroni Breakfasts
A few years ago, when my young daughter was sick, I did what any Canto mum would do and fed her congee (a gruel of white rice made with…
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I wanted to post an article I wrote about Monkey Hill and then remembered it was published on Hong Kong Citizen News and no long exists.
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I read a book about Nostradamus predictions from the local library that said WWIII would be between the (Western) world and China and I was terrified because I thought we'd be rounded up, or killed or deported (even though we were British citizens and from Hong Kong).
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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
Chow Hang-tung's mum: [Tung] is not a competent barrister, she is just an outstanding defendant. I thank those who dragged her into the defendant's stand and in so doing recorded into Hong Kong's court record, the truth of June 4th and of what has happened in Hong Kong in recent years. 4/4
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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Her daughter told her: "That was such a great feeling. I have finally been able to shed my barrister's robes. Who knew it would feel so great to be able to represent myself in court and to tell the truth." 3/4
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