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Hong Kong stays top of financial world

HONG KONG STAYED AHEAD of the US as the world’s top spot for share market launches, new data showed yesterday. In just three months ending yesterday, 37 companies raised US$13.26 billion on the Hong Kong stock exchange, LSEG Data and Analytics of London revealed. This puts the southern Chinese city number one in the world…

April 1, 20260Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features News

Tucker Carlson has become the conscience of the western media: or has he?

For years, independent thinkers saw Fox News host Tucker Carlson as the epitome of all that was bad about the western corporate media's ultra-simplified, west-is-best view of the world. What changed? Richard Cullen investigates. After watching the recent interview of Tucker Carlson by The Economist (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tox2hr4dddM) one observer argued that: In the midst of this collective [Western…

March 27, 20260Comments ByRichard Cullen

Features News Opinion

How horrible is nuclear war: lessons from a 1957 novel

According to the Website, Geodata and Rankings, the US and Israel rank within the top five most disliked countries, worldwide, keeping company with China, Russia and North Korea (link). This is despite America and Israel maintaining by far the strongest marketing-propaganda presence globally, insisting to the world that they are beacons of democratic righteousness. Much more…

March 24, 20260Comments ByRichard Cullen

China news Hong Kong News

Idea: Existing tech can be used to ease Hong Kongers’ time spent in Chinese mainland

The ‘iAM Smart’ platform, which serves as a real-name database, can be used to make it easier for Hong Kong people to spend time in the Chinese Mainland PROMINENT HONG KONG businessman Herman Hu Shao-ming last week suggested that the city’s “iAM Smart” ID-card linked real name database could be integrated with the national-level identity…

March 19, 20260Comments ByNury Vittachi

China news Culture Features

A lawyer’s journey: from 1980s China to a top spot at the United Nations

SOME POSITIVE NEWS! While the news is full of war, a nice story of international bridge-building just emerged, unnoticed. A girl called Lingling was born to the Zhang family in Beijing in 1981. She grew up and went into the law. In 2011, she went to study in Hong Kong, which has a reputation as…

March 16, 20260Comments ByNury Vittachi

China news Culture

Chinese legal system growing fast, with continuous refinements

THE LEGAL SYSTEM in China is maturing fast. Although the law in the country has a very long history, the system has recently been evolving rapidly in many ways, such as in dealing with international cases, using digital technology, and fostering the rise of women judges. The Supreme Court of China this week celebrated female…

March 12, 20260Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features News

China has opposed the idea of killer robots but others are pressing ahead

BREAKING NEWS: A BATTLE is running right now between the US Department of War and defenders of top AI firm Anthropic on a terrifying plan to create an army of autonomous killer robots. Two hours ago, Secretary for War Pete Hegseth issued a statement blasting the company and ordering all government-linked departments to cancel contracts…

March 10, 20260Comments ByNury Vittachi

China news Opinion

Behind the China EV advance, there’s a network of issues to consider

O THE IRONY. As the illegal US-Israel attack on Iran sent petrol prices soaring, there was celebration in China this week as BYD launched an electric car battery that can be “refueled” for 400 km in just five minutes—in other words, as quickly as a petrol car. Final barrier gone. Given the bargain prices of…

March 10, 20260Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

12 statements on the illegality of the US-Israel attack on Iran

THE WEST IS IN TURMOIL. Countries’ top legal minds are declaring the US-Israel attack on Iran to be illegal, as China did. But Israel-friendly western politicians including Starmer, von der Leyen, Albanese, and others are desperately blocking their ears as they try to justify actual war crimes. Here's what the specialists say: . 1. The…

March 10, 20260Comments ByNury Vittachi

China news

Ships are pretending to be Chinese to get through the Straits of Hormuz

THE "I'M TURNING CHINESE" viral trend on TikTok is being used by ships trapped in the Gulf by the US-Israel war on Iran, reports said today. “At least 10 ships over the past week have altered their destination signal to read ‘Chinese Owner’, ‘All Chinese Crew’ or ‘Chinese Crew Onboard’,” the Financial Times reported,…

March 10, 20260Comments ByNury Vittachi