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Home Security an Unlocked Frontier in Rural Hong Kong
(June 2018) “I was robbed of my main source of income and it makes me feel broken,” said freelance photographer Irina Blit.
In the early hours of the morning, a burglar climbed into the terrace of her subdivided village house in Mui Wo on Lantau Island and stole HK$140,000 worth of camera equipment and a Macbook laptop.
A 40-year-old single mother of two, Blit was renting a single floor of a subdivided village house. After the robbery, her neighbours installed security cameras but Blit’s landlord refused to install new locks. Made of thin aluminium, the sliding doors in Irina’s flat employed a simple latch lock that was not working.
“I was in shock the first week,” she said.
“It’s psychologically damaging to have someone inside your house without your knowledge. Nobody here cares about security..."
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This article was published in Pop-up Newswire, an in-house news organisation managed and run wholly by students enrolled in the Master of Journalism programme at The University of Hong Kong.
Making a deaf film in Hong Kong - why is it so difficult?
(May 2018) Hearing-impaired director Terry Tsoi Kei-Kwai, 29, knows the struggles in making a deaf movie in Hong Kong all too well.
Last year, Tsoi’s film Deaf of Dream was screened at the International Deaf Film Festival. Tsoi, who is only partially deaf but can converse in sign language, believes that cinema allows him to act as a ‘middleman’ for the community.
Deaf cinema exists in Hong Kong to a limited extent but deaf artists still face financial challenges. Tsoi had to apply for a film grant through a private group called Shun Hing to create Deaf of Dream and even then the HK$30,000 grant only allowed space for an extremely low budget film.
“Without funding, we resort to making ‘no-budget’ short films,” he said. “The quality suffers.”
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This article was published in Pop-up Newswire, an in-house news organisation managed and run wholly by students enrolled in the Master of Journalism programme at The University of Hong Kong.
Dancing to Freedom: Nepal's last two remaining dancing bears rescued
(December 2017) Authorities apprehended the last two known dancing bears in Nepal and their owners at 9pm on a foggy winter night Tuesday on the outskirts of Gaur.
They had been on the run for four days, travelling 160km across the eastern Tarai from Sukhipur of Siraha District.
With the use of sophisticated cell-phone tracking by the Central Investigation Bureau and information from animal welfare activists, the Rautahat police in Gaur were able to geolocate the bears’ owners, before moving in to make the arrest this week.
The Jane Goodall Institute Nepal provided crucial ground intelligence on which the local authorities in Simara could act.
Two trackers from the foundation had been following the bear owners from Siraha pretending to be buyers of herbal remedies...
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This article was published in the Nepali Times, an English language weekly that provides in-depth reporting and expert commentary on Nepali politics, business, culture, travel and society.
