SOME PEOPLE ARE saying that the “test the whole population” system that worked so well in China could not be implemented in a non-mainland city like Hong Kong, which leans towards Western individualism rather than Chinese cohesiveness.
That may not be true. The same Chinese “universal testing” program was tried in Macao, which has…
SPEND LESS, ACHIEVE MORE – that was the aim of the financial controllers of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and so far it looks like they’ve done it. The total budget has come in at US$3.07 billion, making it usually good value, since the 2018 games cost US$12.2 billion.
How did they do it?
To answer…
COULD COVID-19 be good for you? Surely not. Yet statistics show that people in mainland China and Hong Kong have turned the coronavirus into a positive factor for public health in some ways, at least.
The Chinese response has been very thorough: as a result,
they prevented hundreds of thousands of people from catching the virus…
Wealthy activists outraged to have their work scrutinized
OMICRON
FLEW INTO Hong Kong on November 11 hiding in the nasal passages of a passenger
from South Africa. The man was fully vaccinated and would have been allowed to
roam freely, maskless, infecting hundreds with the new Covid-19 variant, had he
travelled to other places.
But Hong Kong’s tough rules forced him to stay masked at all times,…
Limited war over Taiwan is desirable, US military experts say
An infographic to share about coverage of China
Richard Cullen wrote that the media was editing the violence of 2019 Hong Kong out of history. Here’s evidence
New city will tap into the energy of Shenzhen