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Elaine Yu
@yuenok
China Reporter, CNBC. Formerly WSJ, AFP.
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    Elaine Yu
    @yuenok
    Aug 23, 2019
    This is extraordinary. Exactly 30 years after the Baltic Way took place, Hong Kong people have taken inspiration from the demonstration and joined hands across the city to form a massive human chain this Friday night. This video was taken in just one small part of Causeway Bay.
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    Elaine Yu
    @yuenok
    Sep 15, 2019
    Week 15 of Hong Kong protests. At this point, it’s about democracy and a refusal to normalize police militarization, immunity and abuse of power. Police banned this march but people showed up anyway, families with young children & black bloc protesters marching side by side
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    Elaine Yu
    @yuenok
    Dec 2, 2020
    Thinking of how Joshua Wong & Agnes Chow's paths tell a bigger story about their generation in Hong Kong. Weeks ago they both proudly announced having finally graduated from college/attended their ceremony (after years of juggling activism w. their studies). Today they go to jail
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    Elaine Yu
    @yuenok
    Jul 26, 2019
    When people arrive at the Hong Kong airport, they are usually greeted by government branding that welcomes them to “Asia’s world city”. This is what they’ll see today as soon as they leave the baggage reclaim area:
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    Elaine Yu
    @yuenok
    Aug 11, 2019
    Replying to @yuenok
    She said she lives in the area, and explained: “I came from South Africa to move away from this... I don’t want this. This is not the Hong Kong I’ve grown to love.”
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    Elaine Yu
    @yuenok
    Aug 12, 2019
    Replying to @yuenok
    I’ve interviewed at least seven people at protests who started crying when they talked about how much they loved this place and why they are fighting for it. But this is the first time I’ve seen a white lady cry at the sight of street clashes.
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    Elaine Yu
    @yuenok
    Nov 12, 2019
    This is painful. The "University Fitness Room" at CUHK has turned into a makeshift first-aid center for injured students.
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    Jessie Pang
    @JessiePang0125
    Nov 12, 2019
    Replying to @JessiePang0125
    Multiple students got injured tonight. #antielab #hongkongprotests
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    Elaine Yu
    @yuenok
    Nov 18, 2019
    Police officers cornered hundreds of protesters who occupied PolyU, offering them one way out: "drop your weapons" and surrender (and possibly face up to 10 years in jail), or be met with a hail of tear gas and rubber bullets (and still risk arrest).
    Protesters surrounded by tear gas outside Hong Kong Polytechnic University early Tuesday.
    In Hong Kong, Daring Escapes From a Violent Siege at a University (Published 2019)
    From nytimes.com
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    Elaine Yu
    @yuenok
    Aug 2, 2019
    The dissent of Hong Kong bureaucrats and civil servants — an unprecedented protest and a huge embarrassment to Carrie Lam and her administration. The rally is about to begin.
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    Elaine Yu
    @yuenok
    Nov 18, 2019
    Replying to @yuenok
    Parents of trapped students joined a sit-in directly in front of the police cordon near campus. "They realize once their children get out they will be immediately arrested. They just want to take a look at their kid and see if he or she is OK," @ClaudiaMCMo told @austinramzy
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    Elaine Yu
    @yuenok
    Apr 18, 2020
    The Hong Kong government has called for "solidarity" & for people to "put aside their political differences" to fight the pandemic. But it's also been a time of mass arrests, incl. the biggest police swoop on high-profile activists in recent memory today:
    Martin Lee, center, a Hong Kong politician and lawyer, speaking outside the Justice Place last August after a silent march.
    Amid Pandemic, Hong Kong Arrests Major Pro-Democracy Figures (Published 2020)
    From nytimes.com
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    Elaine Yu
    @yuenok
    Jul 1, 2020
    The police laid out these confiscated signs when they announced on Facebook that two women in their 30s, and a 15-year-old girl who waved a Hong Kong independence flag, had been arrested under the national security law. The top left sign says "conscience."
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    Elaine Yu
    @yuenok
    May 24, 2020
    For how much longer will we see images like these? Hong Kong's crisis has always been an existential one, but it's reached a critical tipping point. I chatted with protesters who gathered in Causeway Bay before the tear gas hit. Here's what they said:
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    City Broadcasting Channel(CBC)
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    May 24, 2020
    [5.24 Causeway Bay] A great crowd gathered in Causeway Bay of Hong Kong marching towards Central against the making of national security law #hongkong #hongkongprotest
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    Elaine Yu
    @yuenok
    Oct 1, 2019
    Hong Kong protesters “mourn” China’s National Day in Causeway Bay with a banner showing solidarity with Uyghurs and Tibetans & by sprinkling ghost money — a Chinese funeral rite
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