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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

Chinese history Culture

The mystery Hong Kong tea trader who helped win a war

THE TEA TRADER had no tea leaves to buy or sell. But he didn’t mind. Young merchant Liao had far more serious matters on his mind. In January of 1938, he'd opened a tea import-export business called the Yuehua Company (粵華公司) at 18, Queen’s Road in Victoria, the main city and central business district of…

October 6, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

Features

Creating an e-commerce system for everyone

TEN YEARS AGO, many people expected the e-commerce revolution to change the way that humans bought and sold things. Except it didn’t. Not at first. There were some early adopters, but the average person on the street was still hesitant. What if you ordered something … and it didn’t arrive? Or the wrong thing was…

October 5, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Chinese history Culture Hong Kong News

The strange tale of the King of Lantau Island

The last Emperor of the Southern Song was a fleeing young royal family member who lived in the Hong Kong town of Mui Wo on Lantau island. He’s been long forgotten now, but the opening of a new metro station named after a monument to him and his brother has revived interest in his astounding…

October 4, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

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’

The mystery Hong Kong tea trader who helped win a war

Creating an e-commerce system for everyone

The strange tale of the King of Lantau Island

Incredible story of how a farming province in China beat London, L.A. and Chicago in science rankings

In Xinjiang, I stepped into a different world

City of the future: Hong Kong is just about to go through a transformation