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Nury Vittachi

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How Emperor Ketchup and pals made a billion $ this week

ApeCoin is cryptocurrency but the money it creates is real enough Emperor Tomato Ketchup and friends suddenly made it big Coins were “airdropped”, with some people becoming instant millionaires Americans and Hong Kongers played key roles in the launch A NEW CRYPTOCURRENCY token has been an instant hit, with US$9 billion worth being traded in…

March 20, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

China’s extraordinary Digital Courts: future of the law?

A SERIES OF QUIET innovations has led to the creation of an extraordinary milestone: the world’s first true Digital Court system. You file a lawsuit, fill in the forms, present evidence, and get the legal ball rolling – and then get out of bed, because you are still in your pyjamas. Anxious to do away…

March 18, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Mind control and Molotovs: Hong Kong’s special pandemic challenges

Initial hostile reactions to quarantine facilities and the vaccines in Hong Kong (arson attacks, mind control accusations, and "a way for Beijing to steal our DNA!") seem bizarre to us now, but they are just two years old. THERE HAS BEEN A LOT of criticism regarding deaths in Hong Kong’s fifth wave of Covid.…

March 17, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Investors race to give Cool Carl money for Nothing

HONG KONG TECH leaders are betting big on a top secret transparent smartphone to be announced in two weeks. But business reporters are struggling with the company’s name: “Nothing”. Here’s the story: Phones which are NOT iPhones come and go: but occasionally a brand sticks around and outsells the Apple phone in several markets. Samsung…

March 10, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

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

Nury Vittachi

How Emperor Ketchup and pals made a billion $ this week

China’s extraordinary Digital Courts: future of the law?

Mind control and Molotovs: Hong Kong’s special pandemic challenges

Investors race to give Cool Carl money for Nothing

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?

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