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Six new nuclear reactors to be built on China coast

SIX NEW NUCLEAR reactors are to be built in China, it was revealed today. The ambitious plan is to help the country meet its targets to wean itself off coal. The new reactors will be on the coastal provinces, including Guangdong, Shandong and Fujian. China's first nuclear plant was in Daya Bay in Guangdong in…

April 21, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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China bans slavery, jumps ahead of US on workers’ rights

THE CHINESE BANNED slavery this week. This puts the country further ahead of the United States in the legal protection of workers. The world’s most populous country signed up to two more international conventions against forced labor. This means China has now signed up to six out of eight rights declarations protecting workers of…

April 21, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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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

Nury Vittachi

Six new nuclear reactors to be built on China coast

China bans slavery, jumps ahead of US on workers’ rights

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

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?