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Palace Museum as an architectural landmark

(Caption: Look closely at the thousands of aluminium panels on the side walls and you can see the classical Chinese influence on what looks like a very contemporary building. Image: China State Construction Engineering (Hong Kong)) WHEN GLOBALLY ACCLAIMED Hong Kong architect Rocco Yim Sen-kee took the helm of designing the city’s new Palace…

July 11, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

News

Sri Lanka: What you are not being told

THE CURRENT SRI LANKA narrative goes like this. The ruling party made a series of bad decisions about fertilizer, petrol, and a “debt trap” (yes, from a certain country with a red flag), and, as a result, they have been chased out of office by angry citizens. New leaders will have to be found. Many…

July 11, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Graphics

Ni Kuang: A king of Hong Kong genre fiction

A troubled escapee from the People’s Liberation Army was smuggled to Hong Kong and eventually became a celebrated author WRITER NI KUANG is being mourned in Hong Kong and across much of the Chinese-speaking world. To readers of Chinese, he was the bestselling author of huge numbers of genre books with sci-fi, martial arts and…

July 7, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

Opinion

New CE can bring long-term prosperity to Hong Kong

THANKS TO THE changes in the electoral system and the ensuring of patriots administering Hong Kong, the newly elected Chief Executive John Lee has a clear policy vision. He is taking a results-oriented approach to resolve Hong Kong’s deep-rooted problems. After the official appointment of Principal Officials of the sixth-term Government of HKSAR from the…

July 6, 20220Comments ByAlvin Wan

Opinion

Looking back 25 years, we see how Hong Kong has developed

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS have passed since the official Handover of Hong Kong sovereignty from Britain to the People’s Republic of China. What lay ahead were a mixture of uncertainty and hope for the city. The past quarter century had been a period of change, development, and growth. To mark the significance of this milestone, let’s explore…

July 6, 20220Comments ByHilaire Chow

Features

Hu Fa-kuang: The man who changed the face of Hong Kong

Image shows Hu Fa-kuang as a teenager, when he decided to become an engineer, a 1950s world map, and a ship from the Blue Funnel Line, which would take him across the world. Hu Fa-kuang, who passed away recently, literally changed the face of Hong Kong. He was "the elevator king" of a city which…

July 5, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Palace Museum as an architectural landmark

Sri Lanka: What you are not being told

‘Crimes’ of Julian Assange: infographic

Lecturing Hong Kong: cartoon

Hong Kong people now wealthier than British: Humor spot

Boris Johnson’s travails: humor spot

Ni Kuang: A king of Hong Kong genre fiction

New CE can bring long-term prosperity to Hong Kong

Looking back 25 years, we see how Hong Kong has developed

Hu Fa-kuang: The man who changed the face of Hong Kong

Hong Kong, now safe from hostile interventions, is back on the map

Three US-aided black ops that devastated Israel’s neighbors

China-Laos rail’s success defies Western media’s excessive negativity