Hong Kong’s political-economic journey since 1997 has not been smooth. The SAR would be in a better place today had this experience been less tempestuous.
Nevertheless, it is clear that coping with and recovering from many challenges has, despite what a range of Western critics may assert, durably strengthened the “One Country Two Systems”…
HONG KONG'S HOUSING has been in crisis for well over two decades, and so it remains today. There are people living in cubicles, bedspace apartments and cages, sharing toilet and washing facilities with dozens of other people. This is an outrage and an affront to society as a whole. It should not be tolerated in…
The world is burning. Wildfires and urban fires are increasing in size and frequency around the planet as temperatures rise. There's a desperate need for fairly priced, robustly tested fire fighting vehicles and equipment.
America has provided a profit-obsessed example of the worst sort of way to meet that demand.
China may be…
BREAKING NEWS: An urgent battle to fix the United Nations is taking place behind the scenes. But disagreement between key nations—particularly the west and China—mean the chair of succession for the top job, Secretary General, remains empty.
Current titleholder António Guterres retires at the end of the year—just 14 weeks away—and there’s no succession plan…
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New towns, new institutions, new ventures in technology, culture, finance, education and tourism: There was a wealth of plans revealed in Hong Kong in recent days. Prof Herman Hu reviews the Five-Year Plan and the Policy Address.
WHY IS PLANNING IMPORTANT? Because “A goal without a plan is just a wish.”…
Hong Kong is mourning the loss of Tung Chee-hwa, the bridge-building first post-colonial leader of the city. Prof Herman Hu recalls the man and his achievements, which were many
THE LATE TUNG CHEE-HWA and my late father, Mr. Hu Fa-kwong, were lifelong friends bound by their shared Shanghainese heritage. Our families gathered regularly, giving me…
The Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou science cluster again last night beat Silicon Valley to be declared the world’s top innovation hub.
Scientists in the south China cities filed 2,259 patent applications, published 4,060 scientific articles and had 138 venture capital deals per 1 million inhabitants over the last five years, said the World Intellectual Property Organization, a…
There have been hundreds of reports about China's breakthroughs, including EV battery technology and chip-makers such as Changxin Memory Technologies, but few mention that they come from a landlocked province once famed for farming.
The agricultural province of Anhui took a dramatically different turn after an entire university was transported 1,000 miles. Herman Hu…
"One physical step took me across an international border; one mental step helped me transcend my own preconceived stereotypes," says Wu Pei Yee, a Hong Kong form five student who writes about a visit to Xinjiang -- and the step that took her from China into Kazahkstan.
BEFORE I LEFT HONG KONG for our school…
Almost a third of Hong Kong's land will be blended into an extraordinary plan for a new super-city.
It's huge: the size of the UK's Birmingham, or Kansas City in the US.
Prof Herman Hu says that Hong Kong's Northern Metropolis can take inspiration from Xiong'an, the "city of the future" being built south…
