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Everything you think you know about Hong Kong is wrong, pt. 1

As Hong Kong gets ready for a new leader on May 8, with all eyes on former police officer John Lee Ka-chiu, there's much discussion about the presence/ absence of our ability to choose our head of state. Yet too much of conventional wisdom on that huge subject is not just factually incorrect, but the…

April 19, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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1967: When western pop discovered Chinese culture

GARY BROOKER DIED RECENTLY. Most people won’t know that name. But huge numbers of people around the world would recognize the 1967 tune he wrote with his bandmate Matthew Fisher: which became a worldwide hit song called A Whiter Shade of Pale. Scroll down to read the rest of the text version of this report,…

April 19, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Animoca puts NFT-creation into hands of gamers, artists

JUST A DECADE AGO, journalists were sceptical about Hong Kong’s attempts to create its own Silicon Valley in its business parks, and were uninterested in developments in neighbouring Guangdong. How quickly things change. Today, there are 43 unicorns (tech jargon for new, unlisted companies worth more than US$1 billion) in Hong Kong and the…

April 19, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Despite obituaries, Hong Kong’s legal system healthier than ever

In at least one aspect, Hong Kong only fully gained the rule of law after the handover, says top barrister Grenville Cross Before 1997, his work took him to many places, including on a rather scary journey to Downing Street to see an ancient body of Law Lords The National Security Law in Hong Kong…

April 11, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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The boy who had to see for himself: Allan Zeman

At 16, he was earning more than his teachers At 19, he flew across the world to look for his fortune In a noisy factory in Kowloon, he found it IT WAS 1968, Hey Jude was on every radio, and a tall thin teenager disembarked from a Panam flight at Kai Tak airport in Hong…

April 4, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Data says China, NZ strategy better than ‘living with Covid’

THE DATA IS IN. While columnists wave the flag for “living with Covid”, top medical journals say the numbers tell a different story: the minimizing "Covid elimination" strategy associated with China, New Zealand, and a few other places, is statistically better for public health, the economy, and even civil freedoms. Fridayeveryday looks at the numbers…

March 31, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Suhanya Raffel: Hong Kong’s visual art revolution

An Englishman's visit to a Guangdong village brickmaker led to the creation of a piece of art about China's people and the future of the world For years considered a cultural desert, Hong Kong now aims to be a world leader in appreciation of the arts Having overtaken London as an art investment hub, the…

March 28, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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China’s reinvention of money

INTERNATIONAL FINANCE EXPERT Martin Chorzempa this week sent his new book off to the printer. Called "The Cashless Revolution" it deals with China's reinvention of money and examines the coming end of America's domination of finance and technology. In the video below, Friday's editor Nury Vittachi looks at the subject of how China has been…

March 25, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Video: Chinese-style giant 3D ads are spreading

The eye-catching new 3D ads which went viral from Chongqing and Chengdu are now spreading around the world. Companies in China and South Korea have developed technology that can be easily applied to buildings which have screens on two sides or a curved screen. Fridayeveryday editor Nury Vittachi reports.

March 23, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Sunny Chai: When the god of scales weighed his options

ONE OF THE MOST positive moments in Sunny Chai Ngai-chiu’s life was, in a way, also one of the most negative. And that proved a turning point for him. He was in his 30s when he stood before a panel of experts. He was a finalist for the prestigious title of Young Industrialist Award of…

March 22, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Everything you think you know about Hong Kong is wrong, pt. 1

1967: When western pop discovered Chinese culture

Animoca puts NFT-creation into hands of gamers, artists

Despite obituaries, Hong Kong’s legal system healthier than ever

The boy who had to see for himself: Allan Zeman

Data says China, NZ strategy better than ‘living with Covid’

Suhanya Raffel: Hong Kong’s visual art revolution

China’s reinvention of money

Video: Chinese-style giant 3D ads are spreading

Sunny Chai: When the god of scales weighed his options

Truth at last: Yes, Chinese Uyghurs ARE treated badly

Record-breaking number of deals clinched at China import expo

Mainland China, HK, now helping other nations make clean energy transition