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Nury Vittachi

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10 Ways China is behind the scenes in Qatar

THE WORLD CUP, an annual soccer tournament that takes place very four years, is running Qatar as we speak. The attention is most on the sports, except for the Western media, which is focusing mainly on the politics. But there's another story too -- the work that China has done in helping build the facilities.…

November 24, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Opinion

How Hong Kong national anthem row exposes cultural chauvinism

WESTERN REPORTERS: YOUR CHAUVINISM is showing. Many western scribes and their followers are mocking Hong Kong people who are upset after a rather brutal prank or "an error" happened in South Korea, where a protest song was played in the place of the national anthem. Is it okay for these reporters to have a laugh?…

November 15, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Taobao sold twice as much as Amazon

Chinese shopkeepers are quietly conquering the world. A new survey shows three of the planet’s top four internet shops globally are Chinese, and Alibaba's Taobao did twice as much business as Amazon.com. (Sorry, Jeff.) Graph from Insider Intelligence.com How did they get so big so quickly? One factor is home location – there are A…

November 14, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Voices rising to tell a broader, deeper, fairer story

AN INCREASING NUMBER of people are speaking out to tell the truth about Hong Kong and Mainland China, top Hong Kong business leader Herman Hu Shao-ming said. “Today, many voices are trying to tell a broader, deeper, fairer story of what is happening our city and our country,” he told a conference. “Many of us…

November 9, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Hong Kong stepping up intelligence ops: John Lee

THE STRUGGLE TO KEEP Hong Kong safe is not over, the city’s leader John Lee Ka-chiu said. “There are still underlying national security threats from different fronts,” he warned. In response, the city is putting more resources into intelligence gathering, the Chief Executive told a conference. “We will step up efforts in gathering and…

November 9, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

U.S. has launched ‘economic warfare’ against Chinese: FT

THE PRESENT U.S. administration’s determination to stop the world selling vital semiconductors to China “is an act of economic warfare”, top Financial Times columnist Martin Wolfe wrote on Friday. The move “is far more threatening to Beijing than anything Donald Trump did,” he added. “The aim is clearly to slow China’s economic development. That is…

November 7, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Hong Kong setting up forex market for virtual assets

BITCOIN BROS, SALVATION is coming. Hong Kong is quietly creating retail markets for virtual assets. The city is using its considerable financial clout to create special share markets where people can buy and sell crypto currencies, NFTs and so on. It’ll be just like buying and selling regular currencies—but with new age assets, which you…

November 7, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features

The good folk organizing parties for other people’s children

CLOSE YOUR EYES. Make a wish. Now blow out those candles! One of the great things about these modern “globalized” days is that we can all adopt each other’s traditions. And the big favorite across much of the world now is the children’s birthday party. The idea of annual gatherings, where you mark someone’s age…

October 28, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Musk accelerates plan for WeChat copy; Facebook, Apple follow

ELON MUSK’s “project x” team has started intense work behind the scenes to make a copy of China’s WeChat app for the western world. Top executives are filing out of Twitter HQ in San Francisco, leaving the company’s arriving leaders free to follow their plans - first, to increase free speech on the app, and…

October 28, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Hong Kong News News

Primary children to swap crayons for coding: 2022 Policy Address

Hong Kong's new leader John Lee showed himself determined to build on Hong Kong's many success stories in his maiden Policy Address, given yesterday. Below is a summary of the main points. Or scroll down for a link to a video summary of the story. CHILDREN; GIVE THE crayons a break. Primary school kids…

October 20, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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10 Ways China is behind the scenes in Qatar

How Hong Kong national anthem row exposes cultural chauvinism

Taobao sold twice as much as Amazon

Voices rising to tell a broader, deeper, fairer story

Hong Kong stepping up intelligence ops: John Lee

U.S. has launched ‘economic warfare’ against Chinese: FT

Hong Kong setting up forex market for virtual assets

The good folk organizing parties for other people’s children

Musk accelerates plan for WeChat copy; Facebook, Apple follow

Primary children to swap crayons for coding: 2022 Policy Address

West’s ‘shadow world government’ meets in Washington DC

Harm caused by the ‘western lens’ interpretation of China

Hong Kong stays top of financial world