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Students wear classic Chinese costume for graduation

SCHOLARSHIP HAS BEEN valued in China for thousands of years – so why don’t scholars dress in local style? On graduation day at Jiangsu Normal University, thousands of students wore classical Chinese costumes instead of standard western suits, reports Olala, a popular Chinese-Vietnamese voice on Twitter. This has become a tradition at that university in…

June 18, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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U.S. will stop being a democracy, most Americans say

MOST Republicans and Democrats believe that the United States will cease to be a democracy, according to a new poll by Yahoo News and YouGov. Democrats (55%) and Republicans (53%) now believe it is “likely” that America will “cease to be a democracy in the future”. When people who fit into neither of those two…

June 17, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Top Canada judge gives vote of confidence to Hong Kong

THE FORMER TOP JUDGE of Canada is standing strong with Hong Kong’s legal sector. Staying in place is “what Hong Kong needs”, said Beverley McLachlin, who served as chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 2000 to 2017, and now works in the city on the southern coast of China. Hong Kong has long had…

June 17, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Europeans follow China’s lead in staying neutral over Russia: study

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS people around the world, including Europeans, are following China’s lead in staying neutral over the war in Eastern Europe, a new study shows. While 45 British firms have left Russia, only ten French and two Italian companies have followed suit, Yale researchers said. No Spanish firms have left. The west’s call for withdrawal…

June 17, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features

Media embarrassingly show their poor grasp of Hong Kong history

Western press says textbooks are rewriting Hong Kong history, but the truth is they are simply giving both sides Even the British admitted that Westerners were "occupying" Hong Kong in January 1841, when they arrived and planted their flag Mao Zedong made it clear in 1949 that ALL unequal treaties were cancelled in full Under…

June 16, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Unbelievably, US trade act targets China poverty rescue program

Farmers from Qapqal Xibe in Xinjiang have bumper crops after poverty alleviation programs enabled them to develop thriving orchards. (Photo by Hua Yanming/People’s Daily Online) Heads up: new trade legislation will cause widespread business problems from next week Xinjiang Act applies across China and will hit third countries too Law cynically takes aim at China’s…

June 14, 20220Comments ByPhill Hynes

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Student skipped his exam to fly to a video game meeting

Tabe Wong took a huge risk, but it paid off, and now he's an esports star Esports is now a legitimate career, and even offers academic options Hong Kong has the largest esports stadium in Asia, the HK$30 million Cyber Games Arena in Mong Kok IT WAS EXAM DAY. Thousands of Hong Kong students checked…

June 14, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

Culture

The strange true story of the hostage prince who fell in love

PRINCE YIREN OF QIN had a horrible job. He was a hostage. He had been assigned to that role by his own parents. That may sound strange, but that was often the case in China during the Warring States period, more than 2,200 years ago. The young man was a member of the royal family…

June 14, 20220Comments ByEmily Zhou

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China eases sex change rules, but stays wary

DOCTORS IN CHINA are taking steps to establish a middle ground in the “trans” debate that has divided western nations. New rules make it easier and faster to change sex in China. But people who are entirely male in a physical sense will continue to not have access to women’s safe spaces or sports competitions.…

June 13, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features

When every picture did tell a story

THIS WRITER HAD a nostalgic lunch yesterday with Martin Lee Chu-ming, Liu Kinming and others to celebrate a new book by top Hong Kong photographer Liu Heung Shing, known as H.S. H.S., who is now 70 years old, was born in Hong Kong, and educated in the United States but became a top photographer for…

June 10, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Students wear classic Chinese costume for graduation

U.S. will stop being a democracy, most Americans say

Top Canada judge gives vote of confidence to Hong Kong

Europeans follow China’s lead in staying neutral over Russia: study

Media embarrassingly show their poor grasp of Hong Kong history

Unbelievably, US trade act targets China poverty rescue program

Student skipped his exam to fly to a video game meeting

The strange true story of the hostage prince who fell in love

China eases sex change rules, but stays wary

When every picture did tell a story

Scientists find ‘feminist paradise’ existed more than 4 millennia ago

US and UK have long weaponized Jimmy Lai. Here’s how Canada joined them

How to see the rabbit on the moon: and 7 other ways to mark mid-autumn festival