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The internet stranger’s eyes looked a little crazy

Conversations with strangers on the internet tend to be superficial, judgmental and short. But make an effort, and it can be an opportunity to have in-depth discussions with people you’d never normally meet. Anna Tang reports. THE NIGHT BEFORE writing this, I was “strolling” around the online Q&A site Quora and encountered a man…

July 12, 20220Comments ByAnna Tang

Features

Lee Hysan: a tale of poetry, murder and the moving of mountains

Today, Hong Kong's small but crowded Causeway Bay district is famous as being among the most expensive retail spaces in the world to rent. But few people remember the extraordinary story of the family behind the miracle. Nury Vittachi and Emily Zhou report. IMAGINE HONG KONG'S Victoria Park underwater. In the 1920s, there was…

July 12, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

Features

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

The internet stranger’s eyes looked a little crazy

Lee Hysan: a tale of poetry, murder and the moving of mountains

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

Truth trumps fiction, as Donald trumps expectations

The U.S. openly threatens judges around the world: sorry, but you just can’t do that

David Webb and the Quiet Power of an Unbought Voice