HONG KONG HAS BEEN caught in the fifth wave of COVID-19 since the start of the Lunar New Year, with daily infections surpassing the highest numbers seen since the outbreak started two years ago.
Many voices have questioned the feasibility of Hong Kong's zero-covid policy, pointing to the fact that countries that previously had…
THE GRACEFUL CHINESE exercise known as Tai Chi Chaun is gradually spreading around the world - and even into the fictional world of Hollywood movies. “I love the idea of having a place I can go every day. I want the connection, the excitement. I wanna be challenged,” says Robert De Niro, playing a retired executive…
ONE OF HONG KONG'S best-known businessman-politicians, Bernard Chan, revealed how a chronic health problem hit him as a teenager—and how learning to paint with a tiny bottle of correction fluid got him back on track.
The convenor of the Executive Council, Hong Kong’s top governing body, told a TV interviewer that he was hit by…
THERE WERE GLOBAL campaigns from the United States to make the Beijing Winter Olympics the “least-watched” Winter Olympic Games in history. Yet the International Olympic Committee indicated these were the most-watched such games—a line happily echoed by Chinese people on social media and China's state media. What’s the real story?
As usual, simplification is misleading,…
YOUNG PEOPLE, property tycoons, pop stars and truck drivers are pulling together to fight the Omicron wave in Hong Kong. There was a wave of pledges yesterday. Here are 12 things that people are doing.
Hong
Kong youth groups said they’d co-ordinate a free transportation service to move
nurses, doctors, and medical goods Property
tycoon Peter Lee Ka-kit…
SOME PEOPLE ARE saying that the “test the whole population” system that worked so well in China could not be implemented in a non-mainland city like Hong Kong, which leans towards Western individualism rather than Chinese cohesiveness.
That may not be true. The same Chinese “universal testing” program was tried in Macao, which has…
Forty-six sudden deaths leave community in shock
New BA.2 strain producing worrying results in trials
Health officials’ worst fears have emerged in densely populated city
A KILLER HAS COME TO TOWN. In Hong Kong, 46 lives have been snatched
at high speed by a strain of Covid in a shocked city which has been astonishingly
free of…
SPEND LESS, ACHIEVE MORE – that was the aim of the financial controllers of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and so far it looks like they’ve done it. The total budget has come in at US$3.07 billion, making it usually good value, since the 2018 games cost US$12.2 billion.
How did they do it?
To answer…
It may have been wise for the UK to part from the European Union for a more global stance
But the country's long friendship with China has been unfortunately soured by US hawks and UK Sinophobes
It’s crucial that Britain’s next task is to defy US orders and rebuild its relationship with the country…
STEP ASIDE, LONDON. Tiny Hong Kong has overtaken Europe to became the second largest art market in the world: and has its eyes on claiming the top spot from the United States.
America has a big lead, for now, and is staging something of a recovery. Yet in the long run, Asia will surely…