The world's top dragon boat competition will ditch Hong Kong in favour of Thailand next year due to the city's stringent coronavirus rules, organisers have announce.
The world’s top dragon boat competition will ditch Hong Kong in favour of Thailand next year due to the former’s stringent coronavirus rules, organisers said on Saturday.
Hong Kong Marathon participants ran into trouble Sunday over clothes—and even a tattoo—that bore a Cantonese slogan popular with the city’s pro-democracy movement, local media reported
Hong Kong marathon runners on Sunday were ordered to cover up “political” slogans and tattoos before being allowed to compete at the first major sporting event in the territory in almost two years.
According to local media reports, runners reported being told to cover or remove slogans, including idioms like “add oil” (加油) a phrase which was widely heard during the 2019 protests, but is also a ubiquitous term of encouragement.
Hong Kong’s Citizen News reported that one runner was escorted to a changing booth by police during a security check, and told to change her shorts because of a small