EIGHTEEN CENTURIES AGO, two princes fell in love with the same woman, Zhen Mi. But only one could have her.
Circumstances led Zhen Mi to marry the older one, although she preferred the younger, who had been sent into temporary exile during the chaotic Three Kingdoms period in Chinese history.
When the exiled brother finally…
ONE OF HONG KONG'S best-known doctors revealed that his family came from a rags-to-riches background. Oncologist Tony Mok Shu-kam, also known as a TV host and magazine columnist, revealed the extraordinary early life of his father.
When Mok Senior was just eleven, living in Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation, he lost his own…
THE UK DROPPED all pandemic restrictions too fast – and Covid-19 is back. Numbers of cases and hospitalizations are rising in all regions and all age groups.
Figures released on Wednesday saw infections jump by more than 50 per cent and deaths by two thirds in a week. This has been accompanied by a…
Numbers of available beds rises fast as facilities come on line
Vax rate for elderly rises, for 40-somethings hits 99.88 per cent
Hong Kong has always been a survivor, says Chief Executive Carrie Lam
Many community medical facilities are actually hotels, including some luxury ones
AN “INSTANT HOSPITAL” was built in a week in…
CHINA IS CREATING news laws on “deepfakes”. This is a new development in technology which enables people to create entire videos of individuals without their involvement. You basically use artificial intelligence to “paste” someone’s face – usually that of a celebrity – onto the body of someone else.
If it is done carefully enough,…
The "one country, two systems" formula was originally designed for Taiwan, rather than Hong Kong, top lawyer Maria Tam said.
It was not China but Britain who didn’t want Hong Kong people to have universal suffrage, the Basic Law drafter added.
Meanwhile, Hong Kong’s political system has a surprise “expat-friendly” element which makes it uniquely…
HONG KONG'S BRITISH-STYLE legal system will carry on past 2047, the city’s legal chief said yesterday. It will not switch to the civil law system used by mainland China and most countries around the world, Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng Yeuk-wah said last night.
“The ‘one country, two systems’ [policy] will continue, and with it,…
A FORMER WORKER at a Chinese takeaway in the southern English city of Bristol has become a senior leader in China. Leung Chun-ying, who earned £10.50 (US$14) a week selling Chinese food, curry and chips, at a humble high street eatery is now vice chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a top governing…
NOW THAT THE DUST has settled, the money has been counted: and it’s a shocker. Facebook lost about US$250 billion in a single day last week, the biggest one-day drop of any company in the history of listed companies. That’s a quarter of a trillion US dollars.
The main culprit? A Chinese app called TikTok.…
Image: Two men enter an Ottawa apartment block where people have complained about anti-vax protesters. In the second image, you see them lighting combustible blocks, and in the third image they tape the door handles to prevent escape; the pictures were shared by resident Matias Munoz on Twitter, attracting the attention of the city's police.…