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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

News

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

Chinese Music Culture

Chinese orchestra uses infrastructure for inspiration

ONLY IN HONG KONG would engineering details about a piece of major infrastructure be turned into music. Hong Kong-born composer Chan Ming-chi noticed that the extraordinary Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge consists of three cable-stayed bridges, one undersea tunnel, and four artificial islands. So he took the numbers three, one, and four – and turned them into…

November 3, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

News

A fairer, safer world can be achieved, forum hears

Much optimism about the future of Hong Kong and the wider world was expressed by a range of expert participants at a high-powered forum which featured the city's new leader John Lee Ka-chiu yesterday (November 2, 2022). Scroll down for a detailed "press briefing" summary of the conference from the Friday Culture team. Click…

November 3, 20220Comments ByFriday Culture

Opinion

British judge: I serve the Hong Kong people

The problem for Hong Kong's critics is that our legal system works really well. One of the city's overseas judges, Britain’s Lord (Jonathan) Sumption, told the press the bald truth, saying “as a Hong Kong judge, I serve Hong Kong people”. He added: “I must be guided by their interests, and not by the wishes…

October 31, 20220Comments ByGrenville Cross

Features

The good folk organizing parties for other people’s children

CLOSE YOUR EYES. Make a wish. Now blow out those candles! One of the great things about these modern “globalized” days is that we can all adopt each other’s traditions. And the big favorite across much of the world now is the children’s birthday party. The idea of annual gatherings, where you mark someone’s age…

October 28, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Musk accelerates plan for WeChat copy; Facebook, Apple follow

ELON MUSK’s “project x” team has started intense work behind the scenes to make a copy of China’s WeChat app for the western world. Top executives are filing out of Twitter HQ in San Francisco, leaving the company’s arriving leaders free to follow their plans - first, to increase free speech on the app, and…

October 28, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Chinese food Culture

Bread and soup fit for an emperor

ZHAO KUANGYIN (趙匡胤) was not having a good day. He was a high ranking soldier who felt he was destined to one day become leader of the country. But he had many battles ahead of him. On this particular day, he was a tired and hungry man, wandering through the city of Chang’an. This incident…

October 27, 20220Comments ByEmily Zhou

Opinion

Hong Kong’s OTHER housing: cheap or free apartments

Housing in Hong Kong is inexpensive or rent-free! Seriously? Well, a lot of it is - the homes for almost a third of the population. The city has a huge government housing program, and an ambitious new administration is going to make it grow faster than ever. Andrew Lam reports. HONG KONG’S NEW GOVERNMENT is…

October 25, 20220Comments ByAndrew Lam

Chinese history Culture

Amazed sailor finds his ballast was the real treasure

CHINESE EXPLORER ZHENG HE would sail from China with his boats laden with gifts. He took treasures from his country to give as presents or to use in trade with people he met around the world. He once came home with a giraffe. On the way back to China, the ships would be too light…

October 25, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

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

Hong Kong setting up forex market for virtual assets

Chinese orchestra uses infrastructure for inspiration

A fairer, safer world can be achieved, forum hears

British judge: I serve the Hong Kong people

The good folk organizing parties for other people’s children

Musk accelerates plan for WeChat copy; Facebook, Apple follow

Bread and soup fit for an emperor

Hong Kong’s OTHER housing: cheap or free apartments

Amazed sailor finds his ballast was the real treasure

China, Brazil, Germany, become Guardians of the High Seas

Decoding ‘Trump QE’ – a stealth liquidity injection bypassing the Fed

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