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Deaf artist who lost life’s work in Hong Kong’s Tai Po fire is ‘painting to heal myself’
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5/10/2026

Deaf artist who lost life’s work in Hong Kong’s Tai Po fire is ‘painting to heal myself’

For Hong Kong-based artist Apple Tong Wing-yin, Wang Fuk Court has always been more than a home address. It was a library of her life’s work. Tong, a prominent deaf illustrator and graphic designer who communicates through what she calls her “silent language” of art, kept the many canvases that spoke for her inside her flat in the Tai Po housing estate. In November last year, that library was reduced to ash in one of Hong Kong’s deadliest fires. She lost everything – her awards, her backlog of...

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Australian Publisher Scraps Children's Book Over Illustrator's Comments on Bondi Shooting
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Politics·4/24/2026AI summary

Australian Publisher Scraps Children's Book Over Illustrator's Comments on Bondi Shooting

The University of Queensland Press has cancelled the children's book "Bila, A River Cycle" by poet Jazz Money after illustrator Matt Chun published an essay critiquing responses to the Bondi beach shooting that killed 15 people in December 2024. The publisher called Chun's comments "abhorrent and hateful" and said they violated antisemitism policies. Several prominent Australian writers have since cut ties with UQP in protest, with poet Evelyn Araluen rescinding all her contracts. The book had already been printed with copies now in storage awaiting "recycling options".

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