It's news of the Weird as it seems like a why bother, yet it's news as part of the continuing tensions between Hong Kong's special status as the jewel of Pacific trade and economics as a free port of asia vs Hong Kong as a Subject of the People's Republic of China.
At it's most Basic Nintendo, did not bother to make a Cantonese version of the next series of Pokemon.
This is causing a back lash mostly because of the existing tensions in Hong Kong where there is a continuing fear of a Mainlandization including Mandarin-ization.
Some might remember a movie that caused some controversy lately called "10 Years". The movie is basically an expression of the Fear of loosing the unique culture of Hong Kong. Part of the Film's major hits was that as part of the plot the PRC had banned public use of Cantonese.
So by skipping Cantonese Nintendo trip lined local worries and fears that the PRC may begin pushing policies and encouraging private foreign entities ( like Nintendo) to skip Canton as It they produced such It would possibly face retribution.
If there Were such policies enacted it would push Hong Kong culture more and more fringe and eventually lead to the possible extermination of Hong Kong culture and independent identity.
By forcing Hong Kong into line with the rest of the PRC.
The old line was "One country, two systems" more and more however we are seeing the break down of that.
You missed my point. Since when has a dozen spoilt idiots protesting been international news worthy?!
I noticed the BBC reporting on this completely omitted the pathetically paltry numbers involved, and thus made this total irrelevant extreme fringe issue seem like a legitimate mainstream concern.
That goes to the heart of the issue, and smacks of the news organisations trying desperately to find stories to push their agenda as opposed to objectionably reporting the true and fair representation of events and moods on the streets.
In doing so, they are crossing the line from the news reporting business into news creating one.
