This is a message from a small group of Korean residents. It's pretty heartbreaking. Please share widely

Hello Everyone,

I'm a member of a group of concerned Koreans living in the UK, and I am trying to organise a protest/vigil to show support for a young Korean girl who was attacked in the middle of Oxford street two weeks ago.

On Sunday 25 November, as has become customary for Chinese LibDems, members and friends gathered for our annual general meeting at the New Loon Fung Restaurant in Chinatown, followed by dimsum lunch.

It has been an eventful year, as reported by Co-Chairs Cllr Tatyan Cheung and Merlene Emerson:

CLD contributed to and were mentioned in Lord Alderdice's report on the culture of the party, we supported 5 candidates of Chinese heritage in the May local elections (with Cllr Sarah Cheung Johnson successfully elected to South Cambs District Council), participated in anti-immigration raids in Chinatown and the Anti-Brexit Peoples march and launched our new logo at the Autumn conference where we shared a stall with Liberal Democrat Campaign for Race Equality. We also celebrated our 12th birthday at a dinner in Brighton with Lord Paddy Ashdown.

I'm often asked why I first joined the Liberal Democrats and I have often answered with the word 'Brexit'. But whilst it was true that devastating result of the EU Referendum in 2016 was the catalyst for me joining the party, it really encompasses many wider issues that I wish to make a stand against.

Last week (9 October) I stood for the first time in the City of London elections in Castle Baynard ward that stretches from Fleet Street to Blackfriars, taking in St Paul's Cathedral. It was a 3-week whirlwind of a campaign. The by-election was called as one of the Common Councilmen in the ward was elected as an Alderman elsewhere and created a vacancy. There were 8 of us contesting one place.

I was always tempted to have a first-hand experience of the LibDem national party conference, and this year I finally made it.

My overall verdict is: my schedule during those 2 days became so packed, and I got more than what I anticipated.

It was a dynamic and busy weekend with a lot going on. The guidebooks filled with all sort of events. There are a lot of things going on: debates on policies, fringe sessions, trainings and others. On top of it, there are Easter eggs in the conference because there are a lot of events which are not mentioned in the guidebook/agenda.

Chinatown was shut down for five hours [on 24 July] during a strike triggered by "hostile environment" immigration raids that led to one blind mute protester almost being run over by a Home Office van.

Hundreds of traders walked out at midday on Tuesday and marched to the Home Office waving placards and chanting slogans including "No more fishing raids" and "Justice for Chinatown".

No one wants to step into a pile of rubbish when you walk out from your house, not to mention a street littered with garbage.

Unfortunately this happens to the residents in the apartment blocks on the Capitol Way, Queensbury.

It is located on the edge of the borough of Brent, with a bus stop providing 2 vital connections to the tube station, an Asda Superstore, a brand new M and S, Aldi, and Wilko.

On 3 June, Co-Chair of CLD Merlene Emerson captained a team that took part in the London Hongkong Dragon Boat Race at the Albert Docks. The annual boat race was organised by the London Chinatown Lions Club and is an event which CLDs had taken part in many years ago - paddling as the "Democracy Dragons".

The Chinese Welfare Trust scratch team wearing their distinctive tee shirts with water dragon logo managed to win a place in the charity finals. The team made up of 16 paddlers and a drummer fundraised for the first Chinese speaking Admiral Nurse, specialising in caring for patients with dementia, a most worthy cause which CLD supports as well.

Here's a picture of myself with a whole host of South Cambs LibDems celebrating a historic victory. We not only took South Cambs District Council out of the hands of the Tories, we won 30 of the 45 seats and are now in control of the District. In the process, I have become the first ever ethnically Chinese Councillor in Cambridgeshire.