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‘What made you stop trusting the international media?”

Top cause was coverage of Hong Kong, followed by the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, say respondents to a social media tweet that quickly turned into a fast-growing discussion FASCINATING DISCUSSION HAPPENING on social media at the moment. It started yesterday with Twitter user Leon Lu posing a question: “When did you lose trust…

July 20, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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In China, drunks can use app to summon a sober friend

UH-OH. YOU’VE HAD too many drinks. You’re too intoxicated to drive home. But you can’t take a taxi because you don’t want to abandon your car in the bar's car park. What do you do? Reach for your phone. A new category of app called Dai Jia (代駕) - literally "designated driver"- lets you summon…

July 19, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

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China builds train loop the size of a country

CHINA BUILT A TRAIN track as big as a country—and they did much of it on shifting sands. The new Xinjiang railway loops around the huge Taklamakan desert, a patch of sand so large it could swallow the countries of the United Kingdom plus the whole of Ireland. It wasn’t just the size of the…

July 19, 20220Comments ByEmily Zhou

Features

The garden-maker of Kowloon

Violent death arrived in Hong Kong on December 8, 1941. Japanese troops took just four days to chase most British forces out of Kowloon. But one old European horticulturalist, who lived in a house in Ho Man Tin, turned his home into a sanctuary for hundreds of westerners—and defended it with guns. Meno Monteir tells…

July 19, 20220Comments ByMeno Monteir

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New Kowloon: A Forgotten Episode of Urban Expansion

Modern-day Hong Kong is divided into three regions: Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories. Few people today remember the fact that in the past there was an area called New Kowloon. Andrew Lam reports. THE BRITISH ADDED Hong Kong to its empire in 1841, and signed the Treaty of Nanjing in 1842. Thanks…

July 18, 20220Comments ByAndrew Lam

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Rule change means Hongkongers could become astronauts

FIT YOUNG HONG KONG people have been cleared to become astronauts. Mainland China has quietly moved away from its policy of using only military personnel on space missions, it was revealed. The change became apparent after Legislative Councillor Edward Leung asked the Hong Kong government to broker a deal to relax the restriction. Because of…

July 18, 20220Comments ByAnna Tang

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First Americans came from Asia—but one group went home

New data tells the story of how Asians spread to the Americas A GROUP OF ASIANS travelled to Siberia, crossed to Alaska and became the first humans to settle in America – but some of their descendants decided to make the long and perilous journey back to the area which is now China and Russia.…

July 18, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Let’s keep Hong Kong’s old ‘understairs’ shops alive

Swanky artisan coffee shops may be cool, but Hong Kong's traditional stores need our support too, says Anna Tang FEW THINGS ARE more pleasurable than doing some nostalgic shopping – especially if you are hungry. What’s your pleasure? It may be the Dragon’s beard candy (龍鬚糖) found in Yuen Long and Tuen Mun, or that…

July 14, 20220Comments ByAnna Tang

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One city produces extraordinary number of ‘perfect scores’ in global IB exams

Students from Hong Kong are getting world-beating results in the International Baccalaureate exam, but this doesn't mean it's a wall-to-wall city of nerds - one of the top performers this year is sports champion Xavier Chang. H.C. Lu reports. HONG KONG HAS arguably the world’s best school system for smart children, according to the latest…

July 14, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

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‘What made you stop trusting the international media?”

In China, drunks can use app to summon a sober friend

China builds train loop the size of a country

The garden-maker of Kowloon

New Kowloon: A Forgotten Episode of Urban Expansion

Rule change means Hongkongers could become astronauts

First Americans came from Asia—but one group went home

Let’s keep Hong Kong’s old ‘understairs’ shops alive

One city produces extraordinary number of ‘perfect scores’ in global IB exams

Graphic: If only the world focused less on weapons

West’s ‘shadow world government’ meets in Washington DC

Harm caused by the ‘western lens’ interpretation of China

Hong Kong stays top of financial world