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Nury Vittachi

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Squat toilet or luxury hospital suite? Start praying now

Seven things to know about what's happening as the virus sweeps through Hong Kong 1) YOU WILL HATE THIS As Covid sweeps through Hong Kong, workers have worked day and night to create temporary isolation centers at high speed – but they are NOT luxurious. They are basically container-sized boxes with three beds in…

March 1, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Opinion

Seven things I got wrong: a journalist owns up

I GOT IT WRONG. I thought Vladimir Putin would stay on his side of the border. But nope, not correct at all. I. Got. It. Wrong. Journalists get thousands of things wrong in our careers, and in that regard, I consider myself the Chief of Sinners. We try to excuse ourselves by saying that…

February 27, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Opinion

Why Putin opted to support ‘independents’, not invasion

THE RUSSIAN LEADER called the bluff of his Western critics by pointedly NOT invading Ukraine at the precise time and place that they had specified, according to many media reports. But then he did something even more surprising -- on the day of writing this article, the news media is full of reports saying…

February 22, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Life

Most HK age groups hit the 90% jabbed mark

MOST AGE GROUPS in Hong Kong have reached, surpassed or are fast approaching a 90 per cent jabbed rate, with families way ahead. PARENTS LEAD: “Mum and dad” age groups are ahead, with the 50-somethings at 92% and 40-somethings at a remarkable 96.6%. GRANDPARENTS JOINING: The oldies have been slow but are catching…

February 21, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features

Bridge-builder reveals childhood illness that changed his life

ONE OF HONG KONG'S best-known businessman-politicians, Bernard Chan, revealed how a chronic health problem hit him as a teenager—and how learning to paint with a tiny bottle of correction fluid got him back on track. The convenor of the Executive Council, Hong Kong’s top governing body, told a TV interviewer that he was hit by…

February 20, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Life

So was it the most-watched or least-watched Winter Olympics?

THERE WERE GLOBAL campaigns from the United States to make the Beijing Winter Olympics the “least-watched” Winter Olympic Games in history. Yet the International Olympic Committee indicated these were the most-watched such games—a line happily echoed by Chinese people on social media and China's state media. What’s the real story? As usual, simplification is misleading,…

February 20, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

New strain of Covid is stalking, killing people in this town

Forty-six sudden deaths leave community in shock New BA.2 strain producing worrying results in trials Health officials’ worst fears have emerged in densely populated city A KILLER HAS COME TO TOWN. In Hong Kong, 46 lives have been snatched at high speed by a strain of Covid in a shocked city which has been astonishingly free of…

February 18, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Culture

When a woman ruled the world

THE VAST, VAST majority of people listed as leaders in human history have been men. But did you know that a woman once commanded the top superpower in the world? Yet her story has been forgotten. Here at Fridayeveryday, we regularly celebrate amazing true stories from Asian culture, and particularly like to share tales which…

February 14, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Trading in a Floating City: the secret of Hong Kong’s success

People in the city on the southern coast of China got rich by moving goods without them ever touching the ground The community's extraordinary trading skills were highlighted by former Hong Kong leader CY Leung in a new business show, Friday Beyond Spotlights Hong Kong has become the "super-connector" between the rest of China and…

February 12, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Bitcoin ‘heist’ suspect Heather Morgan lived in Hong Kong

Cash from huge, unsolved crypto theft has finally been found, investigators say One time Hong Kong resident juggled careers, tried to be rap star The ultimate techy couple hid in the glare of publicity, her face on billboards Theft was from Hong Kong company – and so was part of the laundering operation A GAWKY…

February 10, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Nury Vittachi

Squat toilet or luxury hospital suite? Start praying now

Seven things I got wrong: a journalist owns up

Why Putin opted to support ‘independents’, not invasion

Most HK age groups hit the 90% jabbed mark

Bridge-builder reveals childhood illness that changed his life

So was it the most-watched or least-watched Winter Olympics?

New strain of Covid is stalking, killing people in this town

When a woman ruled the world

Trading in a Floating City: the secret of Hong Kong’s success

Bitcoin ‘heist’ suspect Heather Morgan lived in Hong Kong

Starmer meets Xi today, hopes to rebuild UK’s relationship

Treasures from 800-year-old sunken vessel exhibited in Hong Kong

At the Great Wall, I learned how the Chinese dealt with their enemies