Protests

One thing that is interesting about living Hong Kong is that it is both the major (actually only) city and the center of government for the entire country. It's like living in a combination of New York and Washington D.C. That means that if I'm in Central, near the government offices there are very often small protests occuring. Small as in 10-20 people. What has been frustrating is that the signs and protest chants are all in Chinese. Now, I'm not about to insist that they protest in English just for my benefit, but it would at least be nice to have the signs be bilingual so I can have an idea about what they are protesting. I like to be informed...maybe I'll joing them in their fight..but, first I have to know what the issue is.

However, just the other day, I can across the protestors above who where mostly African and protesting in English. They were protesting the fact that Hong Kong does not have an asylum policy. A little research into this showed that there are currently 1500 asylum seekers in Hong Kong, most of them from Africa or South Asia. More than 150 of them are being detained (i.e. in prison) or have to report weekly to the police.

So, thanks to protests in English, I'm now better informed!