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‘I’ll never give up on Hong Kong’: businessman Allan Zeman

The Canadian tycoon had a fascinating talk with our friends at Tatler Asia about his struggles with the pandemic and addresses the viral WhatsApp message he sent to chief executive Carrie Lam. Extract below, and link to the full interview at the bottom: MENTALLY, DEALING WITH the pandemic has been very difficult. We’re going on…

March 17, 20220Comments ByAllan Zeman

News

Mind control and Molotovs: Hong Kong’s special pandemic challenges

Initial hostile reactions to quarantine facilities and the vaccines in Hong Kong (arson attacks, mind control accusations, and "a way for Beijing to steal our DNA!") seem bizarre to us now, but they are just two years old. THERE HAS BEEN A LOT of criticism regarding deaths in Hong Kong’s fifth wave of Covid.…

March 17, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features

Climber aims to scale physical and mental peaks

THE HIGHEST POINT on Earth is an irregular slope measuring just three to four square meters in size. The air is thin, the temperature is freezing and the rocks are encased in a three-meter-thick covering of ice blanket. These are sights only seen first-hand by those who successfully reach the summit of Mount Everest, people…

March 16, 20220Comments ByLinda Xi Tianqi

Features Videos

Top doctor Tony Mok reveals family’s rags-to-riches past

ONE OF HONG KONG'S best-known doctors revealed that his family came from a rags-to-riches background. Oncologist Tony Mok Shu-kam, also known as a TV host and magazine columnist, revealed the extraordinary early life of his father. When Mok Senior was just eleven, living in Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation, he lost his own…

March 15, 20220Comments BySeth Mallick

Culture

Suzhou’s eternal gardens touch the soul

IN APRIL OF 1977, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was taken on a visit to one of the many legendary classical Chinese gardens of Suzhou. The one chosen for her was called The Garden of the Futility of Politics. The extraordinary name surely stuck in the British leader's mind--particularly as she would go on to…

March 15, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

Culture

Her message of love was received 40 years too late

A classic poem about of a couple destined for each other, but cruelly kept apart by time and circumstances, is still popular 1000 years after it was written AMONG THE FEW Chinese musical pieces well known on international stage is “Butterfly Lovers” (梁祝), composed by He Zhanhao (何占豪) in 1958. But the composer created many…

March 14, 20220Comments ByEmily Zhou

Features

China making more electric cars than all other nations put together

BUSINESS BRIEFING: Big jump in output of electric vehicles from mainland; in West, defence spending to rise "substantially"; and there are calls for the definition of socially positive investing A STUDY SHOWS CHINA is now producing more environmentally friendly electric cars than all other countries put together. “China accounted for 57.4% of the [global]…

March 13, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

Life

Covid rising all over ‘too relaxed’ UK, scientists warn

THE UK DROPPED all pandemic restrictions too fast – and Covid-19 is back. Numbers of cases and hospitalizations are rising in all regions and all age groups. Figures released on Wednesday saw infections jump by more than 50 per cent and deaths by two thirds in a week. This has been accompanied by a…

March 12, 20220Comments BySeth Mallick

Opinion

Co-ordination and support key for Hong Kong covid fight

Even though Hong Kong's Covid wave may have peaked, better coordination and mutual support is a must for a successful response, says Henry Ho MORE THAN A MONTH into the fight against the fifth wave of the epidemic in Hong Kong, with the strong support of the central government of China, daily confirmed cases and…

March 12, 20220Comments ByHenry Ho

News

Instant hospitals give Hong Kong a fighting chance

Numbers of available beds rises fast as facilities come on line Vax rate for elderly rises, for 40-somethings hits 99.88 per cent Hong Kong has always been a survivor, says Chief Executive Carrie Lam Many community medical facilities are actually hotels, including some luxury ones AN “INSTANT HOSPITAL” was built in a week in…

March 10, 20220Comments BySeth Mallick