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Primary children to swap crayons for coding: 2022 Policy Address

Hong Kong's new leader John Lee showed himself determined to build on Hong Kong's many success stories in his maiden Policy Address, given yesterday. Below is a summary of the main points. Or scroll down for a link to a video summary of the story. CHILDREN; GIVE THE crayons a break. Primary school kids…

October 20, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features

Hong Kong: densely packed but surprisingly green

With its dramatic vistas of mountains, oceans and lakes, Hong Kong has always been an attractive place to live. How has this been achieved, since the city is more densely packed than even India's Mumbai? Andrew Lam reports. HONG KONG HAS ALMOST three times as many people per square kilometer than Singapore or London. We…

October 18, 20220Comments ByAndrew Lam

News

Goodbye ‘human rights’: political scientists in plea for change

(Caption: concepts of 'human rights' and 'democracy' must be revisited to be more inclusive. Image: Brooke Cagle) GOODBYE, “HUMAN RIGHTS” AND “DEMOCRACY”. Hello, common values. It has become obvious that so-called "universal" concepts are not universal at all and must be urgently revisited, a panel of top international political scientists said today. The…

October 13, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Hong Kong News News

Hong Kong ranked ‘world top city’ for universities

HONG KONG IS arguably the world’s top university city, a new survey reveals today. Five of the top 100 academic institutions on the planet are located in Hong Kong, according to an annual study published this week by Times Higher Education of London. Hong Kong beat London and Paris for number of academic top performers…

October 12, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

US strategist calls for Taiwan to buy more guns

TAIWAN MUST DIVERT huge amounts of its people’s money to spend on weapons, US war strategist Elbridge Colby said yesterday. “I honestly don't get why Taiwan isn't spending 10% or more of its GDP on defense,” he wrote. Ten per cent or more? For comparison, most countries spend about 2%, or less, and the United…

October 12, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Scientist wins Nobel for showing that reality isn’t real

A VISITING HONG KONG scientist has just won the Nobel prize for experimentally proving that the real world… isn’t real. Wait, what? The world isn’t real? Correct. And even though the physical world is not real, it has nonetheless given scientist Alain Aspect the Nobel Prize for Physics, along with two other scientists in the…

October 12, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Chinese food Culture

Would you snack on a snake?

I HAVE TO START BY saying that not every Chinese person has eaten snake-related dishes. In fact, I had never thought that snakes could be eaten until I read about it in a novel while I was in middle school. I was so astonished that I even re-checked the Chinese character “蛇” (“snake” in Chinese)…

October 11, 20220Comments ByEmily Zhou

Opinion

Hong Kong still has two systems—and a bright future

HONG KONG HAS PROGRESSED significantly since its reunification with the Motherland. The past decade has seen abrupt changes in our country’s internal and external environment and Hong Kong has undergone ups and downs including unforgettably tumultuous times in 2014 and 2019. Yet, thanks to the principle of “One Country, Two Systems”, and the bold leadership…

October 11, 20220Comments ByHenry Ho

Chinese history Hong Kong News

The forgotten ‘bromance’ between communists and colonials

Hong Kong became host to an extraordinary Communist school in the 1940s The British asked Communists to work as the police in the New Territories A Hong Kong war hero got an MBE before being killed by a Taiwanese bomb ONE OF THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY episodes in modern history was a “bromance” between British colonial…

October 11, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

News

‘U.S. aims to turn Taiwan into giant arms depot’

SEE THAT HEADLINE? “U.S. Aims to Turn Taiwan Into Giant Weapons Depot”. This is not from the news spoof website called The Onion. This is an ACTUAL HEADLINE in the New York Times today. The article doesn’t present this as a bizarre and incredibly dangerous thing to do. It presents it as an ordinary news…

October 7, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Primary children to swap crayons for coding: 2022 Policy Address

Hong Kong: densely packed but surprisingly green

Goodbye ‘human rights’: political scientists in plea for change

Hong Kong ranked ‘world top city’ for universities

US strategist calls for Taiwan to buy more guns

Scientist wins Nobel for showing that reality isn’t real

Would you snack on a snake?

Hong Kong still has two systems—and a bright future

The forgotten ‘bromance’ between communists and colonials

‘U.S. aims to turn Taiwan into giant arms depot’

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

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

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