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Nury Vittachi

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Criminal probe shines light on anti-China group’s wide links

AS INVESTIGATORS probe the links of arrested Epoch Times finance chief Bill Guan, the spotlight is spreading to include other individuals and organizations. Anti-China campaigner John Zhong Zhang, Epoch Times founder and CEO, resigned. He and Guan have been replaced by a temporary board. Li Hongzhi, leader of the Falun Gong religious cult behind the…

June 18, 20240Comments ByNury Vittachi

Hong Kong News News

Speedboat fugitive “heading to USA”, court hears

THE EXTRAORDINARY TRUTH about 12 people arrested on a boat in Chinese waters in 2020 came out in recent days with two people involved in that case appearing at the trial of publisher Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong. One of the men involved admitted that he was expected to land in Taiwan first—but then he…

June 6, 20240Comments ByNury Vittachi

Hong Kong News News

Remarkable family has kept HK’s buses running for a century

SEE THIS GUY? His company probably paid your bus fare at least once. Seriously. Hong Kong is famous for its cheap and efficient public transport, moving millions of people a day. But few people realize that the owner of the biggest bus fleet in the city, the Kowloon Motor Bus Company, is a private firm…

June 6, 20240Comments ByNury Vittachi

Culture Hong Kong News

Finance-mad Hong Kong has a surprisingly strong spiritual side

PEOPLE ARE OFTEN surprised to discover that Hong Kong is a spiritual place. Although one might be forgiven for assuming this global finance center would be hardnosed and irreligious business city, this is not the case. About half of the population belong to organized belief groups, such as Buddhism, Taoism or Christianity. Are the other…

June 6, 20240Comments ByNury Vittachi

China news News

UK set to announce biggest-ever listing: China’s fashion giant Shein

Members of the UK parliament’s Labour Party greenlit the country’s biggest ever stock market listing: the Chinese fashion firm Shein, it was revealed yesterday. London’s win will be New York’s loss, brokers said. The amount of cash to be raised was estimated by analysts as 50 billion GBP, a record breaker. The astonishingly fast-growing Chinese…

June 4, 20240Comments ByNury Vittachi

Hong Kong News News

Hong Kong subversion case: What you’re not being told

THE BIZARRE TALE of a 10-step plot to escalate chaos in Hong Kong until there was blood on the streets and destruction of the economy came to an end today. And the care taken by the judges shone a positive light on the Hong Kong judiciary - as did their openness in releasing their paperwork…

May 30, 20240Comments ByNury Vittachi

Chinese food Features Hong Kong News

Hong Kong food sector facing Shenzen challenge

HONG KONG'S FOOD KING revealed that he started out working at McDonald’s, the US fast food giant. Tommy Cheung, who represents the food industry at the Legislative Council, Hong Kong’s parliament, revealed that his first job was making burgers while studying in the United States. “I bought my first used car with my first paycheck…

May 24, 20240Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features Hong Kong News

China’s new Silk Road is transforming the world

MORE THAN 22 CENTURIES AGO, the Silk Road connected east and west in a global trade route that changed the world. Today, the Belt and Road Initiative, or BRI, is repeating that miracle on a much bigger scale. The BRI is already the biggest infrastructure project in world history, and it is only 10 years…

May 24, 20240Comments ByNury Vittachi

China news News

Who REALLY killed the US solar panel industry?

YES, THE US SOLAR PANEL industry has been stomped on. But who did the damage? The answer will come as a surprise. No, it wasn’t China. The US did the harm itself. The solar industry in America was decimated BECAUSE an earlier incarnation of the US government introduced tariffs against Chinese solar panels. That was…

May 17, 20240Comments ByNury Vittachi

China news Hong Kong News News

Leaders jet into Hong Kong to save global trade

TOP SCIENTISTS AND business leaders jetted into Hong Kong yesterday for a geopolitical conference to save global trade. The aim: to plot a path out of the current impasse, in which US insecurity about China’s peaceful rise is causing a splintering of international relationships to a level unseen since the Second World War. ‘THREAT TO…

May 14, 20240Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Criminal probe shines light on anti-China group’s wide links

Speedboat fugitive “heading to USA”, court hears

Remarkable family has kept HK’s buses running for a century

Finance-mad Hong Kong has a surprisingly strong spiritual side

UK set to announce biggest-ever listing: China’s fashion giant Shein

Hong Kong subversion case: What you’re not being told

Hong Kong food sector facing Shenzen challenge

China’s new Silk Road is transforming the world

Who REALLY killed the US solar panel industry?

Leaders jet into Hong Kong to save global trade

Gutsy UK finance chief Reeve faces down the anti-China mob

Golf controversy leaves the law stranded in the bunker

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