TG Thursday December 4th, 2025 (rebuild)
Tripperhead Gazette
(In my one-sided, self-inflicted, personal war with Substack this week, this issue was deleted in error, so is being re-upped for continuity)
TAI PO FIRE
Official death toll: Still 159.
They seem to have axed the daily press conference that was updating the number.
• Disaster relief allowance has been doubled to HK$100k per household affected by the fire.
• On Wednesday evening, the HK Govt ordered all protective meshing on buildings in the city to be removed by Saturday.
• Latest number of arrests in relation to the fire.
• Youtuber taken in for making some very tacky videos.
If the media reports are true and he has been charged with sedition by the National Security Department police, this would be one of the first cases brought to trial that wasn’t political in nature. It was vile, but was it an NSL violation?
• Via SCMP: A new scheme spans doctors across 170 locations, including four private hospitals, allowing victims to have three consultations, plus medication, free of charge between now and February 28 next year.
• Via Transit Jam:
OTHER NEWS
ICAC arrest four more for election-related alleged crimes.
And finally, for some reason the link to Bernice Chan’s Substack went AWOL yesterday, so here it is.