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Boom News|爆炸頭

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Boom News (爆炸頭) is an independent Hong Kong online news outlet run by journalist Tang Ho-wing (鄧浩榮) — a Chinese University computer-science graduate and former student- and online-press reporter who built the "爆炸頭" brand of street reporting and live-streams from around 2020 — with a following of some 200,000, publishing chiefly through Facebook. On 30 September 2026, national-security police arrested Tang (37) and former League of Social Democrats member Lee Ying-chi (李盈姿, 58) for allegedly "spreading false information" with seditious intent under section 24 of the 2024 Safeguarding National Security Ordinance — an offence carrying up to seven years — over coverage of the 31 August commemorations of the 2019 Prince Edward MTR incident; the force confirmed the arrests on 1 October. Tang was released on bail shortly after midnight on 2 October, having been held almost two days; no charge has been laid. He was one of eight people arrested over the 31 August gathering. The Hong Kong Journalists Association's response — "reporting is not sedition" — and the wider pattern are on the Press Freedom under Siege hub.

Update — bank accounts frozen (October 2026). On 7 October, days after his release, Tang said on social media that all of his personal bank accounts had been frozen — with no advance notice and no formal freezing order shown to him. He said he had been left to rely on cash and could not even take up food-delivery work, which requires a bank account, and that he might have to "resort to begging." No bank has been named, no amount disclosed, and the authorities have not confirmed ordering the freeze. The freeze was first reported by the exile outlet Points Media (棱角媒體) and documented by the China Media Project's Lingua Sinica; the Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders have voiced concern. Cutting off a bail-released journalist's everyday banking — before any charge is even laid — extends the case from his reporting to his ability to live. The pattern sits alongside the overseas asset and funding measures on 🌏 Pursued Abroad and the wider record on Press Freedom under Siege.

Because an outlet that lives on a platform can vanish with a single account takedown, this page preserves Boom News's Facebook presence as a self-contained web archive (WACZ) that replays in your browser — the timeline, photos, videos, reels and about pages as captured on 30 September – 1 October 2026.

Browse the archive

Last archived: 1 October 2026 · capture window 30 Sep – 1 Oct 2026

Replays entirely in your browser via ReplayWeb.page; nothing is fetched from Facebook. It streams only the parts of the 2.6 GB archive you view, so give each page a moment. — open full-screen ↗ if the player above stays blank.

Open full-screen or jump to a section (opens in ReplayWeb.page):

Download the archive: boomheadhk-public.wacz (~2.6 GB, WACZ — open it in the ReplayWeb.page desktop app or at replayweb.page → Choose File).

About this capture

  • Captured: 30 September – 1 October 2026, via a browser-based crawl packaged as WACZ with the wacz tool.
  • Scope: the public facebook.com/boomheadhk timeline, photos, videos, reels and about pages.
  • Format: WACZ — an open, self-describing web-archive package that replays client-side; integrity is covered by its internal datapackage-digest.json.
  • Privacy: the public copy has been reprocessed to strip all request/response cookies and authorization headers from the underlying WARC records, so no capture-session credentials are exposed.

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香港中文報道 (Chinese-language HK coverage):

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