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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.พ. 2021
- Hong Kong's news stands are facing extinction.
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What happens when telling the truth becomes a crime?
Dictatorship...
Then you vote for Trump (or another autocrat)
COVID happens
Yes, of course nothing to do with newspaper sales have declined worldwide as people read news on the Internet.
CCP, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Russia, NK, Venezuela etc. Take your pic.
Turn the background ambiance sound down its way to loud
No offense but can you not hear?
Thanks I felt the same
Should not be as loud as the people speaking
@@sandrapark8705 ???? jesus who pissed you off
Sandra Park using "no offense" doesn't make you sound less impolite
It disappeared everywhere it’s sad but no one read newspaper anymore
That’s technically true but disingenuous, information media is consumed online
I read my fake news online
@@hugol648 same reading fake news is the best
Sprak for yourself. I still read paper
@@Colombiani speak for yourself, most people read news online, that's a fact
I don't even remember the last time I went to a newstand
Cause you get your news on a phone or laptop but old people can’t use that and sometimes news stands have papers from real un biased journalists
@@lilcaesars100 Papers aren't unbiased. They might have been once, but not anymore.
@@hassan-et1el speaking the truth on most matters is un biased
@@lilcaesars100 Yeah, if only that were the case.
@@lilcaesars100 All news source have their own biases. It is up to you to be smart enough to sort out the bullshit that is being published.
VICE thank you very much for covering this story. I grew up in Hong Kong and I would always buy 老夫子 comics while my family bought newspaper from these stands. These are local small businesses please support them and buy from their stands. Tissue packs, newspapers, snacks, umbrellas, these are common items that they have. Urging Hong Kong people to buy from local folks instead of convenience stores🙏🏻🙏🏻
Amazing vice is covering this
Not really, I mean Vice has many bad takes, but this is regular Vice.
I thought the same thing. VICE is extremist left, they should be celebrating this crackdown by the Marxists.
@@buddykerr1 haha... If you think China is marxist... you really need to do more research... and Vice is far from being extremist left. Since they were bought by CNN's parent company, they basically just became the CNN for millenials... its not hardcore left... its just the 'left' kinda stuff that the corporations and the Establishment Democrats want you to think. ANd it seems like the Biden admin may be interested in opposing China more than Obama did, though not as strongly as Trump. So we'll see what the future of China-US relations is.
In São Paulo, Brazil, it has happened as well. The Paulista Avenue has lot of theses newsstands and now, they are already there but declining.
They’re acting like news stands are still relevant with phones and computers
They are. Not everyone uses a cell phone like you! some want a physical paper!
Good you are seeing through the ideological anglo spin that turns anything into hostile evidence. If they kept using newspapers they would accuse them of being backwards and contributing to pollution.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but newspapers are dying everywhere. Not just Hong Kong. I know work for one in the US. I am 4th generation and most likely the last in my family.
in US people dont trust the news no more cause of fox news and other fake news propaganda outlets unlike in China where the government is trying to stop them from posting real news
That's 😧 crazy.... what a Joke that they can not keep a business in the family. A business that they built-up from the ground. 🖕🏾🙏🏽🤦♀️
Sorry technology happened
@@qjtvaddict what does technology have to do with passing a business to another family member. They can pass the business to someone else and it will still remain open, but can't pass it to a family member because they already played that card... That country just sucks any way you look at it.🤷🏽♀️🐍🤮💩👎🏽🐍🤦♀️
@@winnterk6569 I agree.... So they can gift it to someone else.....just not their family member!?!?!🤮🤦♀️ I mean God forbid how can they wanna keep their hard work in the family??!!!🤷🏽♀️👎🏽
It is not exactly true. The “business” can’t be transferred because the news stand’s physical location is not owned by the permit holder, they were more or less like a (rent free) tenants. So, it is more like they can’t inherit the “rent free” location more then once, they can take the business to anywhere they want if they rent/own the new space.
@@trapezius8890 shhhh I see so they kinda twisted the truth like a 🥨... They CAN keep the business in the family but they will have to move locations. And because they might not want to move locations they are complaining that they can't keep it in the family!?!?!🤦♀️
What’s the purpose of having kids if they are going to be born into a life of a programmed drone with the illusion of choice.
dang this was so accurate
Welcome to the USA
that's why kids in schools were manipulated politically to be anti-China
@@mashlee8712 50 cents army
@@ocjmakaveli1 Wumao alert
$6,400 a month in 1990’s dam that’s a lot of money
What is happening to Hong Kong and its citizens alarms me. I'm sad to watch their way of life reduced for those trying to cope.
You & me both! I hope they stay strong!
"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor"
--James Baldwin
It's amazing and disappointing how many people in the comments just refuse to address the elephant in the room and says stuff like: "yeah but it's because people now check the news on the internet so no one reads newspapers anymore"
Well its true, no one really buys the newspaper around the world anymore... My dad used to, I did when I was a teen. I was born in 1980 and don't even remember the last time I went to a news agency and bought a magazine or the newspaper. Even as late as 2019 I still remember seeing those news stands selling DVD's. Thats the underlying problem with Hong Kong citizens, the hold onto the old and refuse to "get with the times" its no wonder they have a struggling economy that is now almost totally reliant on China. Once a bustling city jewel of Asia is no more, they are no longer a tourism hot spot, no longer a shopping paradise, no longer music/movie empire and their famous ports are no longer being used. Heck even their language (Cantonese) is being phased out.
Lol right
@@cim888 but media censorship is the problem in Hong Kong
Alrighty, explain why print paper sales are falling in the United States as well then.
Isn't it true, though? Why politicise the decline of news stands when they simply no longer sell? And the environmental department is cracking down on things that operate from mobile stalls, guess why..........because people are *complaining* about them being in the way and being unhygienic. That's why mobile food stalls have died out in Hong Kong as well.
Before you judge Hong Kong, take a look at how news stands are thriving in "countries with freedom".........oh wait, they aren't.
People still read printed media, just not going to buy it anymore when papers can't carry the truth.
It's sad watching the CCP constrict Hong Kong. I really hope that we can get some international pressure on the CCP. What they're doing it's obviously wrong.
I STAND WITH HONG KONG
Lol nobody has the guts to stand against China. They know that if the Chinese get angry, they can cut off supplies and trade
@@glipk The world should just end trade with china, and take back manufacturing. Cut china off and let them starve.
@@FullyCharged22 The "world" doesn't just work like that. Western greed has had its consequences and it will take decades to rebuild those industries before even thinking of stopping trade with China. Now it's China that's holding the power and they dictate how things work.
Please also stand with news stands which are falling into obsolescence all over the world... I feel for them but this is about as political as the demise of Tamagotchis.
I told my friends to watch and read about whats really happening in Hong Kong instead of pissing and moaning about their "Freedom of Speech" being suppressed on Twitter and other tech platforms.
Different situations, doesn't mean you can't complain about injustice.
So suppressing speech is ok with you as long as you agree with it.
News stands are disappearing in Hong Kong for the same reason they are disappearing in New York.
the people in Hong Kong stay strong and keep fighting
The decline in news paper sales is so bad, news stand actually generate big portion of revenue from selling sodas, cigarette etc. The license listed 12 items that can be sold legally. Most news stand conduce their business illegally by selling items that are not covered under the license.
Meanwhile you can find news papers and books in convenience store like 7-11. Convenience store has to paid monthly bills (e.g rent) but the news stands are a direct competitor in the sales of items mentioned above. This often raise the question of competitive fairness.
Vice Editors, please for the love of god lower the volume of your background music, it's a news report not a fucking music video.
KEEP FIGHTING HONG KONG!!! GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU, BROTHERS AND SISTERS!!!
Thanks, but as a Hong Konger, just stay out of it.
fighting for what?
All democratic countries are behind you, Hong Kong. Stay Strong!
lol
When has HK ever been democratic?
No need for newspapers any longer, it's old news by the time you print it, when one can just look on their phone.
They don't have those anymore in the states.
I see a couple in NYC
Times change and things change. Side effects of modern technology
I'm just happy vice doesn't have a magazine
Hong Kong, remember that Australia will always have your back and you always have a home here.
Ha. Australia is no paragon of press freedom either. I don't see the Australian government defending Julian Assange.
@@deanjones2525 You have completely misread my comment. While I agree with your statement it has nothing to do with what I said. I completely agree, what happened with Assange is a disgrace. But my point remains true that Australia has always had the back of the people of China and Hong Kong. During the Tiananmen Square massacre, Australia against unpopular views took refugees from China. Much the same during 2019-2021 with the civil unrest in Hong Kong. the CCP has threatened to revoke passports and residence as a result of Australia offering asylum to any Hong Kong residents willing to come to Austalia. That is my point. I never said anything about freedom of the press in Australia, if you read my comment is specifically say 'You have a home here'. My suggestion is that you read a comment with an open mind and not a targeted opinion
@@deanjones2525 Aside from that, I don't see news stands thriving in Sydney..........nobody. Is. Buying. Newspapers. This is making politics out of something that is simply a sign of the times.
how is it that a lot of top ranked universities are from China if their knowledge is skewed and restricted?
Thanks vice but please make your captions readable!!
Thank you Vice for a good video once more. Please make more videos of Asia and Europe and Russia!
4:12 why'd that music come in?
Well its true, no one really buys the newspaper around the world anymore... My dad used to, I did when I was a teen. I was born in 1980 and don't even remember the last time I went to a news agency and bought a magazine or the newspaper. I visit HK regularly and even as late as 2019 I still remember seeing those news stands selling DVD's. Thats the underlying problem with Hong Kong citizens, the hold onto the old and refuse to "get with the times" its no wonder they have a struggling economy that is now almost totally reliant on China. Once a bustling city jewel of Asia is no more, they are no longer a tourism hot spot, no longer a shopping paradise, no longer music/movie empire and their famous ports are no longer being used. Heck even their language (Cantonese) is being phased out.
same here in the Philippines newstands are now rare because of internet revolution
The could replace for 7-11 stores...
"Friendly local hawker".
I was in HK in 2009. On a Sunday morning, I asked a newsstand old lady where I could eat dim sum near by. She yelled at me for asking stupid question and said I could find it anywhere.
LOL
Half million people is pass away, let's talk about people in asia how's they're doing.
Agree w comment, turn background noise/music down....way too loud.
Pretty much everywhere in the world. Might want to buy one and save it as a piece of history for your future generations.
*F R E E H O N G K O N G*
Yeah it's now worth $0 in geo-politics no one wants it anymore
Same in Paris, and guess everywhere...
The background music and sound effects are just too loud.
I'm glad vice is covering this. I hope Vice though returns to its prior level of courageous journalism. This video should highlight Joe Biden's Presidential Town Hall live interview and what he said he'd do or not do with China in relation to Hong Kong and more...for now look it up yourself if you read this far.
Biden won't do squat.
He and his crackhead son owe the CCP $1.4 billion.
I'll bet they have incriminating photos and video, too.
Yes, tell us about how news stands are thriving in New York because people still buy newspapers there... this was a really crap take by Vice.
@@canto_v12 mad
But you still have telcos, the internet, satellite phones and bureaucrat who are secretly on your side. Your allies have satellite reconnaissance and drones.
I dont think they look at the News stands as lower class, its just not a necessity anymore everything is on the internet and usually its free whereas the papers have limited information and there expensive not to mention the extremely expensive magazines. Its like a horse and a plow, some still use it but most people use tractors.
2:08 好耐冇嘆一盅兩件
TURN DOWN THE DAMN AMBIENCE BACKGROUND MUSIC, IT'S TOO LOUD AND DISTRACTING, AND SUPER ANNOYING!
You don't say..
one thing im ashamed we gived up hongkong to china we should of kept it atleast they would have more freedom
Colonisation
Hong kong was inevitably going to become part of the mainland but it shouldn't have been this early.
Who is we?
internet cafes went away too, so did payphones and taxis are next. Sad for the newsstand owners but we don't live like in the 80s to preserve jobs.
😥😢😓🥺
Oh, I discovered a new Canto Channel! Will check it out
Incognito mode is the new read your neighbor's news paper & throw it in the trash
“A newstand being a feature of hong kong's culture for centuries”. Right, because there were already many newspapers 500 years ago.
I thought everyone read digital news now a day ... Prints are fading away everywhere in the world, how is this still news?
People always want to politicise every single thing that they see in their lives. It's a way to shift blame around.
I love when someone says that Xi Jinping are the China ''president'', instead of a dictator. lol
I love when someone says US "President" Bush, Obama or Trump, instead of "war criminal". lol
Well he is the effective president. Just elected differently
Hamza no westerner on this planet would prefer a Chinese dictator over any of the USA presidents you stated. Dictators are the scum of the earth.
@@jackmccall4385 You should ask the Afghans, the Iraqis or the Yemenis. Just today, China sent thousands of free Covid vaccines to Iraq. Meanwhile, what has the US done for Iraq except for occupying, brutalizing and Abu Ghraib? I think Iraqis would definitely prefer Xi over Bush. 🙄
They try to force people to go into stores to buy stuff and therefore increase the commercial real estate valuation. Case closed.
Trynna get rid of the source
This is not necessarily as political as some of the interviewees are making it out to be. People don't buy newspapers anymore because they are reading news on their phones. In cities across the world, news stands are increasingly a relic of the past--I certainly do like seeing them but the reality is that news media has long evolved from relying on paper.
Even knowledge about Wendy's Corporation more useful than many gossips in print.
Ever Wonder why despite general education level has risen, most individuals still prefer gossip magazines more often. In fact, there are no convincing evidence showing readers do actually become smarter reading those publications.
It is wiser to address the root cause of a social phenomenon if at all possible.
How about Coupons & Contests magazines?
Special Halloween 🎃 Wendy's coupons, for example.
Little Booklets printed in Canada, big impact in Asia!
just a few days ago, RTHK, the pride and joy of HK, followed in the footsteps of China's National Radio and Television Administration in choosing to not broadcast BBC World News anymore, and just today RTHK announced they've lost editorial independence
Read all about it !!!
The 2nd greatest post Cold War geopolitical mistake was giving Hong Kong back to China. 🇬🇧 🇭🇰 🇨🇳
#1 was the 2003 Iraq war 🇮🇶 🇺🇸
Lol China would’ve forced Britain to hand it over one way or another. Remember HK gets its water from mainland China. It would’ve acquired the island without firing a single shot. Britain returned it knowing it couldn’t do much.
The Iraq War replaced a dictator with an elected government.
@@gallaxian
A corrupted shithole “elected” government. I fixed that for you
@@TheZachary86 Still a couple steps up from Saddam and his sons.
@@gallaxian
Lol the current government is a massive downgrade from Saddam and his sons if you haven’t noticed.
So the protests stopped?
no new hawker licenses since 1970s? But HK return to China in 1997, almost 30 years, hmmm
just move to online, more ppl read news online anyway and its harder for government to regulate online than printed news
I don't know who needs to hear this, you've got to stop saving money. Invest some part of it, if you really want financial freedom.
Invėst in bit-cöin, buy stöck, forėx markēt,Just invëst and savë yourself.
Good talk, I tell my friends everyday. It's good to save money but gotta have that investing spirit if you really want financial freedom
Facts 👏
Exactly, good insight man.
@Lauren Simmons If you think you're too busy to trade or learn how to trade, just know I have some friends who invest in a platform where and experts devotes their time and help them trade and they get paid profit every week
You have to blame technology
This is sad these news stand used to be a main source of Kung Fu comics.
They don’t like you knowing things........
If you are not Free to Use News or Internet ...you are not free & people will want to be free
duh they are disapperring because they dont want to be sent to jail for years
They are disappearing for the same reason news stands in London and New York are disappearing. People are not buying newspapers anymore.
Right now the media censorship is a much bigger issue.
BG music too loud, disliked. Yuck
The internet destroyed the news stand. This isn't a conspiracy.
4:11 Please help me. What is this song?
+1
It's just some royalty free stock music. It gets used in tons of ads.
@@JustOneAsbesto :(((
Times are a changing
hi from hk :)
Thanks for everything British empire
the same thing happening to mainland china, but hong kong news hawkers usually speak more languages.
Getting rid of the little guy.
Wow, there's only 350 news stands left??
#Savemyanmar
My parents always turned my eye away from these hawkers because some sell pornography... :P
This is why the younger generations don't necessarily like these hawkers.
Hahaha. Cool.
Might also be because you can find more information on your phone than at a news stand...
We want Cantonese humors back.
No to Mandarin.
So if news stand licenses were initially given out to the disabled, why should it be transferrable down to their children if their children aren't also disabled?
Is that all you got from this video? I don't think they meant it was only for disabled people they just used it as a job mainly given to people who were disabled, if that's all you got from this video you ae absolutely fucked in the head
We're in 2021, with phones...
What's your point ? You think we shouldn't have books anymore either because we have phones? Or we shouldn't have concerts anymore because we have phones? You see how dumb that argument is?
@@vintagedrugrug8637 The point is, nobody is buying from news stands. Look at the income reported in the video itself, it's incredible that they can even make 50% of what they did in the 1990s when every single person is online with their mobiles.
Are we sure newsstands aren't dying out because print news is dying? Plus most people who read papers get them delivered....
No, evil CPC is genociding newspapers
@@user-fg8ux8zo6w LMAO. Is that why news stands are thriving in California where I live? Oh wait, they aren't.
People will never miss an opportunity to politicise anything.
*"Dissapeared."*
Wow this is crazy, we should do something about china.
adeel, about HK not china
@@PHlophe No china is a dystopia
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DONT LET IT HAPPEN SPREAD KINDNESS
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This isn't about obsolescence. It's about ccp's ability to easily censor the internet vs print circulation that is difficult to censor.
they simply did not exist
the time you gave hongkong to china
No news for you
good
they are dying industry regardless....why would you show it as suppressing free press???? The young people who protested got their news from online.....
first!!
no real news allowed.
sad!
☹️
Omg you were first? No way! That's so cool!