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Rushes only: Hong Kong escalator commute
Thousands of Hong Kong commuters use the world’s longest escalator system to get to work every day.
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Aleksander S.
Hong Kong
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Aleksander Solum is a freelance video journalist and producer based in Hong Kong. He works for a variety of local and international media covering both breaking news and current affairs reportage. He also takes assignments for corporate clients. Before moving to Hong Kong, he worked for ABC Nyheter and NTB Scanpix as a video journalist in Oslo, and on the production side of Monocle magazine’s broadcast arm.
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Hong Kong's high tech haven for kids
These kids at MakerBay in Hong Kong are all about making drones. They dream of making droppable first-aid kids and delivering food – and they’re off to a good start.
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4.0 Produced for NBCUniversal
Hong Kong gears up to vote on chief executive election reform
The months of June and July are always very intense in Hong Kong as there are mass rallies on June 4th and July 1st. These are the anniversaries of the Tiananmen massacre and the handover from Britain to China, respectively. The rallies are opportunities for people to express their grievances about contemporary issues.
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4.0 Produced for NBCUniversal
HK turns to crowdfunding to protect dress freedom
How Hong Kongers' fear of eroding freedom of the press is leading to a number of crowd-funded or independently financed initiative as the 'digital generation' aims to create news platforms that are free from the increasing control of China's Liaison Office in the city.
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Decision time for Hong Kong
Hong Kong goes to vote tomorrow Wednesday to finally vote on the government's reform proposal. So why are the streets so quiet? Outside of LegCo there is a highly visible police presence - and thousands of officers are reported to be on standby. But in the small protests that take place every night, few demonstrators come out.
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Student protests bring Hong Kong to a halt campaigning for democracy
Up to 10.000 citizens, most of them students and young people, will try to bring the financial centre in Hong Kong to a halt on October 1st. It's the first large-scale action of civil disobedience in China since 1989.
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