Martin Yip
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2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 20 Apr
Martin Yip’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This will be the first time in nearly five months that these displaced residents will have a chance to see firsthand on what has left in their homes.
Speaking to Hong Kong's government-controlled broadcaster RTHK, Deputy Chief Secretary Rona Chirk says some 6,000 people have registered to go in.
In the next two weeks, families in groups of four at most are assigned each with a three-hour time slot to pack up.
Officials told them to prepare themselves both physically and mentally.
Those who live in higher floors are faced with tough hikes as there are no lifts.
Some might well come across the ferry sports where their loved ones had drawn their last breath.
Some have given up to go in altogether.
Pictures reviewed by the government earlier suggest some units are so damaged that walls and even ceilings have fallen off with virtually nothing left.
A few non-government organisations were offering counselling sessions or even landing out robotic exoskeleton legs to help pensioners who would like to walk up the stairs to go home for maybe one last time.
But there are reports of some services being cancelled in last minute under government orders, which the administration is yet to comment on.
On the other hand, officials are denying claims that they are banning volunteers from helping out residents on sites.
They have also said that some claims of ransacking were just misunderstanding.
These all add to people's frustration, but officials say it is important to follow their lead.
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We have in the dock today Albert Ho, a veteran solicitor and a pro-democracy lawmaker, alongside with his fellow Li Zijian, a veteran trade unionist, also a former legislator, and Xiao Hantong, a barrister.
sitting in the council's bench because she's defending herself.
She's not hiring any lawyers.
And just this morning as the trial began, Albert Ho have pleaded guilty to this charge of incitement of subversion that's prescribed under the Beijing-imposed national security law of Hong Kong.
And as an incitement charge, it would carry a maximum jail term of 10 years if found guilty.
And Albert Ho is facing exactly that.
Indeed, because in the past we would have been talking about tens of thousands or a hundred thousand or so people at Victoria Park in the heart of Hong Kong participating in this very candlelight vigil every year in the evening of the 4th of June to mark what happened in and around Tiananmen Square in 1989, the crackdown against the
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