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How Hong Kong national anthem row exposes cultural chauvinism

WESTERN REPORTERS: YOUR CHAUVINISM is showing. Many western scribes and their followers are mocking Hong Kong people who are upset after a rather brutal prank or "an error" happened in South Korea, where a protest song was played in the place of the national anthem. Is it okay for these reporters to have a laugh?…

November 15, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features

Ed-tech star rises from Hong Kong minority

A young Hong Kong firm has found a way to teach computer coding skills to children and adults in more than 20 countries around the world. To read about the company, BSD Education, click here. Or scroll down for an essay profiling Nickey Khemchandani, one of the firm's co-founders. Meno Mentier reports. HONG KONG IS…

November 14, 20220Comments ByMeno Monteir

News

Hong Kong firm beams ‘tech helper’ into classrooms

IMAGINE THE SCENE. A teacher is in a classroom in Europe or Africa or Asia teaching computer coding skills to children. Then there’s a problem. A tough query or technical issue brings the lesson to a halt. What to do? The educator quickly types a request on his keyboard. Ping! Answers arrive. The ability to…

November 14, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

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Taobao sold twice as much as Amazon

Chinese shopkeepers are quietly conquering the world. A new survey shows three of the planet’s top four internet shops globally are Chinese, and Alibaba's Taobao did twice as much business as Amazon.com. (Sorry, Jeff.) Graph from Insider Intelligence.com How did they get so big so quickly? One factor is home location – there are A…

November 14, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Voices rising to tell a broader, deeper, fairer story

AN INCREASING NUMBER of people are speaking out to tell the truth about Hong Kong and Mainland China, top Hong Kong business leader Herman Hu Shao-ming said. “Today, many voices are trying to tell a broader, deeper, fairer story of what is happening our city and our country,” he told a conference. “Many of us…

November 9, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Hong Kong stepping up intelligence ops: John Lee

THE STRUGGLE TO KEEP Hong Kong safe is not over, the city’s leader John Lee Ka-chiu said. “There are still underlying national security threats from different fronts,” he warned. In response, the city is putting more resources into intelligence gathering, the Chief Executive told a conference. “We will step up efforts in gathering and…

November 9, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Chinese food Culture

Don’t say ‘Chinese food’, say ‘Cantonese’ or ‘Sichuan’

WHILE PEOPLE AROUND the world talk about “Chinese food” as if it is a one thing, in fact there are eight great regional cuisines in China, and the most popular is Cantonese. (The other seven cuisines are Anhui, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangsu, Shandong, Sichuan and Zhejiang.) Cantonese cuisine is characterized by its light seasoning, tender…

November 8, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

Culture

How a Chinese working class meal conquered the world

DON’T TELL THE TEXAS TYCOONS! Foodies in the United States city of Houston, Texas, are waiting agog for the opening of a branch of Tim Ho Wan, a Michelin-starred restaurant from Hong Kong. Within weeks, they'll be spending their hard-earned cash on the eatery's speciality: traditional dim sum. But few people know that dim…

November 8, 20220Comments ByEmily Zhou

News

U.S. has launched ‘economic warfare’ against Chinese: FT

THE PRESENT U.S. administration’s determination to stop the world selling vital semiconductors to China “is an act of economic warfare”, top Financial Times columnist Martin Wolfe wrote on Friday. The move “is far more threatening to Beijing than anything Donald Trump did,” he added. “The aim is clearly to slow China’s economic development. That is…

November 7, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Hong Kong setting up forex market for virtual assets

BITCOIN BROS, SALVATION is coming. Hong Kong is quietly creating retail markets for virtual assets. The city is using its considerable financial clout to create special share markets where people can buy and sell crypto currencies, NFTs and so on. It’ll be just like buying and selling regular currencies—but with new age assets, which you…

November 7, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

How Hong Kong national anthem row exposes cultural chauvinism

Ed-tech star rises from Hong Kong minority

Hong Kong firm beams ‘tech helper’ into classrooms

Taobao sold twice as much as Amazon

Voices rising to tell a broader, deeper, fairer story

Hong Kong stepping up intelligence ops: John Lee

Don’t say ‘Chinese food’, say ‘Cantonese’ or ‘Sichuan’

How a Chinese working class meal conquered the world

U.S. has launched ‘economic warfare’ against Chinese: FT

Hong Kong setting up forex market for virtual assets

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?