Tag: Lee Hsien Loong

Having just spent two days in Hong Kong, popular travel video blogger Nuseir Yassin has already felt discontent among locals and wants to cheer the city up with videos showcasing its unique characteristics. “The frustration with the government, the frustration with just life here is pretty high,” he said, giving examples of high rent, the “China situation” and also the humid weather. On Tuesday, he travelled across the city to get footage of damaged buildings and fallen trees for a new video on Hong Kong’s recovery from Typhoon Mangkhut, the most powerful storm Hong Kong has seen since records began in 1946. “In Hong Kong, I think, one of the cool things is how it doesn’t feel there was a crazy typhoon a week ago, it just doesn’t feel like it,” he said. Yassin will also produce another video on expensive rent in the city and has published a clip on the tradition of villain hitting, or da siu yan in Cantonese, in which old ladies curse people upon request. “The politics of Hong Kong is not worth the headache,” he said. “Every time you engage in a political debate, there is a guaranteed headache from the comment section, from the reaction from everything.” He said he would like to shed light on the unique good things in Hong Kong to make people feel more proud of their town. His fans who met him on Tuesday afternoon at Hong Kong Park appreciated his efforts, saying Yassin always offered new perspectives on the world. Local university student Gloria Liu has watched his videos for about two years. He can tell us the special things which we did not know about in every city,” the 21-year-old said.