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Nury Vittachi

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Top Canada judge gives vote of confidence to Hong Kong

THE FORMER TOP JUDGE of Canada is standing strong with Hong Kong’s legal sector. Staying in place is “what Hong Kong needs”, said Beverley McLachlin, who served as chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 2000 to 2017, and now works in the city on the southern coast of China. Hong Kong has long had…

June 17, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Europeans follow China’s lead in staying neutral over Russia: study

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS people around the world, including Europeans, are following China’s lead in staying neutral over the war in Eastern Europe, a new study shows. While 45 British firms have left Russia, only ten French and two Italian companies have followed suit, Yale researchers said. No Spanish firms have left. The west’s call for withdrawal…

June 17, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features

Media embarrassingly show their poor grasp of Hong Kong history

Western press says textbooks are rewriting Hong Kong history, but the truth is they are simply giving both sides Even the British admitted that Westerners were "occupying" Hong Kong in January 1841, when they arrived and planted their flag Mao Zedong made it clear in 1949 that ALL unequal treaties were cancelled in full Under…

June 16, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

China eases sex change rules, but stays wary

DOCTORS IN CHINA are taking steps to establish a middle ground in the “trans” debate that has divided western nations. New rules make it easier and faster to change sex in China. But people who are entirely male in a physical sense will continue to not have access to women’s safe spaces or sports competitions.…

June 13, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features

When every picture did tell a story

THIS WRITER HAD a nostalgic lunch yesterday with Martin Lee Chu-ming, Liu Kinming and others to celebrate a new book by top Hong Kong photographer Liu Heung Shing, known as H.S. H.S., who is now 70 years old, was born in Hong Kong, and educated in the United States but became a top photographer for…

June 10, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features

Kong Qingdong gives insight into protest of 1989

DURING THE 1989 protests in Beijing, student Kong Qingdong came across two undergraduates using a mimeograph machine to makes copies of personal documents. One of them looked up. “Kong, have you nabbed a passport yet?” he asked. “What passport?” “Feng Congde, Chai Ling—they’ve both got American passports.” As he listened, Kong found himself…

June 7, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Clever pay-out scheme has China oldsters getting vaxxed

MEDICAL SCIENTISTS ACROSS China have launched a creative win-win-win scheme which is finally getting older generation hold-outs to take the Covid vaccine. Health officials are buying insurance for oldsters, who get up to 500,000 rmb from insurance companies if the vaccine harms them. Traditionally, elderly people in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other places…

June 7, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Opinion

A list of songs used by torturers

A HUGE NIGHTMARE has descended on Hong Kong. Yes, a new Y.U.U. song. Last year, the first song promoting the Y.U.U. shoppers’ loyalty card was played on a loop in thousands of shops for months, causing utter misery for shoppers and, surely, a major retail crisis. The new Y.U.U. song ("YUU to me") is 80…

June 6, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features

How psy-ops warriors fooled me about Tiananmen Square: a warning

THE MYTH OF THE “Tiananmen Square massacre” is arguably the most successful disinformation campaign of modern times, according to western and eastern sources—so much so that proud psychological warfare specialists recently used it to ADVERTISE their news manipulation skills. We’ll get to that below. As everyone knows by now, there have always been two dramatically…

June 4, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Community with most confidence in their style of democracy is the Chinese

There are 14 remarkable findings about China, Hong Kong, the US, free speech and elections, in the latest edition of the world's largest survey of democratic attitudes, which has just been released CHINESE PEOPLE FEEL better democratically represented by their system of governance than citizens of any other nation feel about their own, a major…

May 31, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Nury Vittachi

Top Canada judge gives vote of confidence to Hong Kong

Europeans follow China’s lead in staying neutral over Russia: study

Media embarrassingly show their poor grasp of Hong Kong history

China eases sex change rules, but stays wary

When every picture did tell a story

Kong Qingdong gives insight into protest of 1989

Clever pay-out scheme has China oldsters getting vaxxed

A list of songs used by torturers

How psy-ops warriors fooled me about Tiananmen Square: a warning

Community with most confidence in their style of democracy is the Chinese

Hong Kong quietly becomes major tennis hub for the world

3-parent baby case led to one of the oddest reviews in HK legal history

This child has three parents: so who is his mother?