Hong Kong - Special delivery for the occupier at Tent No 22

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Special delivery for the occupier at Tent No 22

Government officials say Occupy Central has disrupted public services, but it seems that it's business as usual for the postmen. A letter to "Occupier at Tent No 22, Occupation Zone on Harcourt Road/Connaught Road Central near Admiralty Centre" was successfully delivered to an encamped protester yesterday, according to the Democratic Party. A photo posted on the party's Facebook page shows someone holding the envelope with the address and two stamps bearing a post office chop mark. The sender added: "Thank you for your hard work, Mr Postman." And it looks like the postmen will have to familiarise themselves with more new addresses, as protesters on Harcourt Road rename their second homes as Democracy Road and Umbrella Square, among others.



I change my T-shirts every day: Alex Chow

Federation of Students secretary general Alex Chow Yong-kang has taken the stage at the occupied zone in Admiralty clad in the student group's trademark "Freedom Now" T-shirt almost every day. But he assures All Around Town that although the T-shirts look exactly the same, he has been changing them. Chow says he has four of the T-shirts and that he changes into a fresh one each day. And unlike some protest leaders - such as Scholarism convenor Joshua Wong Chi-fung and Occupy co-founder Benny Tai Yiu-ting, who say they have not returned home since the civil disobedience movement began more than two weeks ago - Chow said he has been home twice. But the prolonged campaign has meant sacrifices - Chow told his supporters he had to give up catching a popular stand-up comedy show by Dayo Wong Tze-wah with his girlfriend.



Beijing loyalist slams 'barbaric revolution'

Beijing loyalists have strongly opposed the Occupy Central civil disobedience movement, but few would have described it as Jaime Sze Wine-him did. At a media gathering last Sunday, Sze - a standing committee member of the All-China Youth Federation and a member of the government's Commission on Youth - said: "It is good for people to have ideals, but while this Occupy movement was idealistic in its first five days, it has become barbaric afterwards. I think it is a revolution." Sze added: "If we don't have the central government's strong support, there will be great chaos and a governance crisis for the administration." His fellow federation member Witman Hung Wai-man also suggested that the democracy movement had become "barbaric". "Only barbaric societies would [force people to give in] by showing that they have more [supporters] on their side," Hung said. But after the media gathering, another member of the federation's standing committee told reporters that he disagreed with Sze. "We did not say it is a revolution; we didn't say something like that," he said.