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Chan Ho-him 
Hong Kong reporter @FinancialTimes covering politics, business and more. Ex-@SCMPNews. thomas.chan@ft.com
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Analysed 2,012 tweets, tweets from the last 330 weeks.
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1,944 | 96.6% |
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68 | 3.4% |
| Top Tweet Types | Count | % |
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| Retweet | 1,410 | 70.1% |
| Tweet | 379 | 18.8% |
| Reply | 178 | 8.8% |
| Quote | 168 | 8.3% |
| Top Content Types | Count | % |
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| URL | 373 | 18.5% |
| Photo | 205 | 10.2% |
| Video | 101 | 5.0% |
| GIF | 1 | 0.0% |
| Top Domains in URLs | Count | % |
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7 | 100.0% |
| Most Replied to Users | Count | % |
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174 | 97.8% |
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1 | 0.6% |
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1 | 0.6% |
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| Top Hashtags | Count | % |
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| #hk | 272 | 13.5% |
| #breaking | 136 | 6.8% |
| #now | 105 | 5.2% |
| #hongkongprotests | 102 | 5.1% |
| #hongkong | 101 | 5.0% |
| #covid19 | 58 | 2.9% |
| #latest | 40 | 2.0% |
| #hkust | 31 | 1.5% |
| #nationalsecuritylaw | 30 | 1.5% |
| #carrielam | 28 | 1.4% |
| #update | 27 | 1.3% |
| #new | 24 | 1.2% |
| #justin | 21 | 1.0% |
| #cuhk | 20 | 1.0% |
| #antimasklaw | 19 | 0.9% |
| #hongkongpolice | 18 | 0.9% |
| #hku | 17 | 0.8% |
| #nsl | 16 | 0.8% |
| #antielab | 16 | 0.8% |
| #wuhancoronavirus | 16 | 0.8% |
| #live | 15 | 0.7% |
| #dse | 14 | 0.7% |
| #coronavirus | 13 | 0.6% |
| #beijing | 12 | 0.6% |
| #polyu | 12 | 0.6% |
| #taiwan | 10 | 0.5% |
| #china | 9 | 0.4% |
| #earlier | 9 | 0.4% |
| #liberalstudies | 9 | 0.4% |
| #nationalsecurity | 9 | 0.4% |
| #covid | 8 | 0.4% |
| #rthk | 8 | 0.4% |
| #ncov | 8 | 0.4% |
| #june4 | 7 | 0.3% |
| #hkpolice | 6 | 0.3% |
| #jimmylai | 5 | 0.2% |
| #thread | 5 | 0.2% |
| #mtr | 5 | 0.2% |
| #watch | 5 | 0.2% |
| #appledaily | 4 | 0.2% |
| #police | 4 | 0.2% |
| #mongkok | 4 | 0.2% |
| #legco | 4 | 0.2% |
| #wuhancoronovirus | 4 | 0.2% |
| #taipo | 4 | 0.2% |
| #urumqifire | 3 | 0.1% |
| #standnews | 3 | 0.1% |
| #p | 3 | 0.1% |
| #hkalliance | 3 | 0.1% |
| #exclusive | 3 | 0.1% |
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| Top Words | Count | % |
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| hong | 457 | 22.7% |
| kong | 442 | 22.0% |
| police | 259 | 12.9% |
| security | 117 | 5.8% |
| students | 101 | 5.0% |
| govt | 87 | 4.3% |
| chinese | 84 | 4.2% |
| protesters | 83 | 4.1% |
| covid | 76 | 3.8% |
| arrested | 75 | 3.7% |
| being | 72 | 3.6% |
| beijing | 71 | 3.5% |
| bureau | 68 | 3.4% |
| chief | 67 | 3.3% |
| democracy | 62 | 3.1% |
| during | 61 | 3.0% |
| including | 59 | 2.9% |
| carrie | 59 | 2.9% |
| schools | 56 | 2.8% |
| government | 53 | 2.6% |
| protests | 52 | 2.6% |
| university | 52 | 2.6% |
| months | 48 | 2.4% |
| teachers | 47 | 2.3% |
| pupils | 45 | 2.2% |
| before | 44 | 2.2% |
| education | 44 | 2.2% |
| outside | 43 | 2.1% |
| mainland | 43 | 2.1% |
| hundreds | 38 | 1.9% |
| announced | 37 | 1.8% |
| since | 36 | 1.8% |
| confirmed | 36 | 1.8% |
| secondary | 35 | 1.7% |
| amid | 33 | 1.6% |
| lawmaker | 33 | 1.6% |
| quarantine | 31 | 1.5% |
| council | 31 | 1.5% |
| fired | 31 | 1.5% |
| masks | 30 | 1.5% |
| mask | 30 | 1.5% |
| authorities | 30 | 1.5% |
| already | 30 | 1.5% |
| slogans | 30 | 1.5% |
| any | 30 | 1.5% |
| authority | 30 | 1.5% |
| secretary | 29 | 1.4% |
| gov | 29 | 1.4% |
| officers | 29 | 1.4% |
| hku | 29 | 1.4% |
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| Top Emojis | Count | % |
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| 🚨 Police Car Light | 13 | 0.6% |
Tweets
#China’s leader #XiJinping will visit #Russia next week from Monday to Wednesday, according to the Foreign Ministry here.
China bond trades hit by suspension of pricing data, prompting traders to rely on messaging apps to set prices:
ft.com/content/77b920… @cheng_leng_
ft.com/content/77b920… @cheng_leng_
Scoop w/ @AnnaSophieGross: CK Hutchison in talks with Scandinavian telecoms group Telenor among other potential partners about merger in Denmark and Sweden
CK Hutchison is seeking to drive a wave of consolidation across European telecoms to boost growth
ft.com/content/da20b9…
CK Hutchison is seeking to drive a wave of consolidation across European telecoms to boost growth
ft.com/content/da20b9…
Exclusive🚨: Hong Kong to make first ministerial visit to UK in 3 years.🇭🇰🇬🇧
The trip is the 1st since the UK accused China of violating the Sino-British Joint Declaration & since the UK offered Hongkongers a route to citizenship post NSL.
ft.com/content/f685b9…
The trip is the 1st since the UK accused China of violating the Sino-British Joint Declaration & since the UK offered Hongkongers a route to citizenship post NSL.
ft.com/content/f685b9…
Michelle Yeoh & Ke Huy Quan tonight highlight the fact that the Asian-American experience is not a monolith and cannot be defined by one country. A Malaysian-Chinese woman, a Vietnamese-American who lived in a refugee camp in HK: there are nuances and layers to their identities
The woman arrested is Marilyn Tang Yin-lee, veteran labour rights activist and younger sister of Elizabeth Tang , and the man is Fred Ho, veteran lawyer and younger brother of ex #HKAlliance leader Albert Ho , sources said.
Xi Jinping confirmed for unprecedented third term as China’s president on.ft.com/3ypgad1
The Chinese arm of US gaming giant MGM and Hong Kong casino mogul Lawrence Ho’s Melco have emerged stronger from the zero-Covid policy era than their rivals on.ft.com/3ZECSK4
Hong Kong national security police arrested Elizabeth Tang, wife of prominent activist Lee Cheuk-yan, outside Stanley Prison, sources said. The move is seen as part of a crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy camp following massive protests in 2019. apnews.com/article/9473d8…
Hong Kong security police arrest veteran labor activist
apnews.com
Perhaps the first time in 38 years - HK Catholic Diocese announced today that Bishop Stephen Chow will lead a small delegation to visit Beijing for 5 days next month upon an invitation from the Beijing Diocese sent last year.
Not many protests around here these days (…) but this was Wu-tang Clan’s response to Hong Kong’s ban on CBD at the first major music festival post pandemic last weekend:
#Wutangclan
#Wutangclan
Hong Kong’s elite were told to give up their western passports if they wanted a seat in China's parliament on.ft.com/3kSRq9N
🚨 Scoop @ThomasHHChan @primroseriordan @FinancialTimes: Hong Kong politicians and tycoons wishing to represent the city at China’s NPC were pressured to renounce foreign passports, including BN(O)s: the “message was either you give it up or you don’t run” ft.com/content/be0ac1…
#BREAKING The Hong Kong Women Workers' Association has cancelled their protest march, originally scheduled to be held Sunday 11am with police approval.
The group apologised on Facebook but did not elaborate.
Police will brief press shortly.
The group apologised on Facebook but did not elaborate.
Police will brief press shortly.
‘An addiction’: masks come off slowly in Hong Kong as habit outlasts Covid on.ft.com/3KS7Euh
🚨Scoop @rwmcmorrow @QianerLiu @EleanorOlcott @FinancialTimes: When China’s NPC meets this weekend, newcomers will include executives and engineers from hard tech sectors such as semiconductors AI.
One major mogul not in attendance: Tencent founder Pony Ma ft.com/content/9dc478…
One major mogul not in attendance: Tencent founder Pony Ma ft.com/content/9dc478…
A fire broke out at a redevelopment site in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, causing damage to several nearby buildings, including the five-star hotel Sheraton Hotel and Hermes House.
Authority issued No. 4 alarm fire at 1:46am
#Reuters #hk #Breaking_News #hongkongfire
Authority issued No. 4 alarm fire at 1:46am
#Reuters #hk #Breaking_News #hongkongfire
🚨Chinese brokerages pressured to end overseas investing services for mainland clients:
@cheng_leng_ @QianerLiu @TomHale_
ft.com/content/296588…
@cheng_leng_ @QianerLiu @TomHale_
ft.com/content/296588…
Hong Kong will end its mask mandate, one of the last places in the world to impose such restrictions on face coverings.
🇲🇴Macau dropped its mask mandate on Mon
🇹🇼Taiwan halted its indoor mask mandate in Feb
🇯🇵Japan eased guidelines on mask wearing in Feb
ft.com/content/1f9522…
🇲🇴Macau dropped its mask mandate on Mon
🇹🇼Taiwan halted its indoor mask mandate in Feb
🇯🇵Japan eased guidelines on mask wearing in Feb
ft.com/content/1f9522…
Our latest on how the Singapore vs. Hong Kong battle is shaping up in 2023👇 @imandylin2 @mjruehl @ThomasHHChan
In a single week last November, Sam Bankman-Fried, who is facing charges including money laundering, watched his $40bn company disintegrate into a pile of financial toxic waste.
What follows is the most detailed account yet of FTX’s final days 👇 on.ft.com/3DU4CSg
What follows is the most detailed account yet of FTX’s final days 👇 on.ft.com/3DU4CSg
This is huge for HK’s LGBT community: HK’s top court has ruled authorities’ requirement for transgender people to undergo full sex-reassignment surgery before they can change their gender on ID card has breached their rights
🚨 Scoop @ThomasHHChan @FinancialTimes: Disney has cut an episode of ‘The Simpsons’ — its second — from the Disney+ streaming platform in Hong Kong over a reference to “forced labour camps” in China ft.com/content/05d7df…
#NEW Disney+ dropped yet another episode of The Simpsons in Hong Kong, the second time it did so under the city’s national security law
The fresh episode (S34E2) made reference to “forced labour camps where children make smartphones” when describing China ft.com/content/05d7df…
The fresh episode (S34E2) made reference to “forced labour camps where children make smartphones” when describing China ft.com/content/05d7df…
Despite the fear authorities have instilled in citizens for even attending the trials of opposition figures, supporters still showed today. “My conscience has urged me to come and support them...I have to stay true to myself,” one said. ft.com/content/10830d… /7 @ThomasHHChan
Hong Kong pro-democracy activists go on trial in landmark national security case on.ft.com/3XYi4wh
Yat Siu has survived being kicked off the App Store, booted off a stock exchange & clashing with his auditors.
But can this blockchain gaming pioneer survive the crypto winter?
Big Read on his $5.9bn Animoca Brands venture w/ @jemimajoanna @ThomasHHChan
ft.com/content/676222…
But can this blockchain gaming pioneer survive the crypto winter?
Big Read on his $5.9bn Animoca Brands venture w/ @jemimajoanna @ThomasHHChan
ft.com/content/676222…
BREAKING: Chinese govt says this is a weather balloon which has accidentally been blown a long way off its course and that it “regrets the unintended entry of the airship into #US airspace due to force majeure”.
China mobilised millions of 'dabai' pandemic workers to implement lockdowns and testing mandates during its three years of zero-Covid. We spoke to some of them who were still reeling from the end of the policy for the @FinancialTimes.
ft.com/content/2cc7e3…
ft.com/content/2cc7e3…
“A world city like no other”: Hong Kong leader John Lee welcomes back tourists after almost 3 years of border closure
The city is giving away 500,000 free air tickets in a major campaign aiming to woo tourists as it suffers a 3.5 annual GDP contraction last year
Source: ISD
The city is giving away 500,000 free air tickets in a major campaign aiming to woo tourists as it suffers a 3.5 annual GDP contraction last year
Source: ISD
Hong Kong's economy had a bad end to a bad year
-4.2% in Q4 vs estimate -2.9%
for 2022, -3.5% vs est. -3.1%
-4.2% in Q4 vs estimate -2.9%
for 2022, -3.5% vs est. -3.1%
#read Former Shanghai bookseller Miao Yu told me airport border officials stopped his wife from leaving China last Aug. They said she’s “suspected of endangering national security”. Police later told her she’s innocent. Still, she cannot leave until her husband gives himself up.
“Macau has always been a washing machine”. The saga and downfall of “junket kingpin” Alvin Chau, protégé of a triad boss, who ran a business that rivalled the biggest US casinos. Colourful, in depth report by @primroseriordan @ThomasHHChan @FinancialTimes on.ft.com/3Dt2W1P
China’s film industry shoots for post-Covid recovery on.ft.com/3wJnLC5
Macau gaming: Chau’s jail term warns punters and investors alike on.ft.com/3Hgo2mp
“China is facing a demographic crisis that far exceeds the imagination of Chinese authorities and the international community"
China’s population falls for first time in in 60 years:
ft.com/content/00b481…
China’s population falls for first time in in 60 years:
ft.com/content/00b481…
Le Yucheng, vice-minister of foreign affairs and the ministry’s top Russia expert before the invasion of Ukraine, was demoted to deputy head of China’s broadcast regulator. “Le was held responsible for the intelligence failure on Russia’s invasion.” enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/73bb3fb…
Thousands cross Hong Kong-China border as Covid restrictions end on.ft.com/3vKG6yb
Casino mecca Macau gambles on becoming a global tourist attraction on.ft.com/3XflYA5
A Hong Kong farm next to a bustling truck road lives nine leopard cats, creating the second densest population in the world. Scientists say it is thanks to over six decades of reforestation efforts. Here is a story about the elusive feline. sc.mp/ahcz?utm_sourc… via @scmpnews
Crypto exchange Huobi to cut 20% of its staff as ‘bear market’ strikes on.ft.com/3Ctw08F
Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao criticised by No. 2 official over comic strip about Beijing ruling on security law
hongkongfp.com/2023/01/06/hon…
hongkongfp.com/2023/01/06/hon…
