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Life

Humor spot: Solomon Islands

June 7, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

News

Clever pay-out scheme has China oldsters getting vaxxed

MEDICAL SCIENTISTS ACROSS China have launched a creative win-win-win scheme which is finally getting older generation hold-outs to take the Covid vaccine. Health officials are buying insurance for oldsters, who get up to 500,000 rmb from insurance companies if the vaccine harms them. Traditionally, elderly people in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other places…

June 7, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Life

Thought-provoker: If you went back to 1955 Asia…

June 6, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

Graphics

Humor spot: Tell me what country you’re from in two words

June 6, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

Culture

In love with a ghost: classic Chinese painting to appear at new Hong Kong museum

EIGHTEEN CENTURIES AGO, two princes fell in love with the same woman, Zhen Mi. But only one could have her. Circumstances led Zhen Mi to marry the older one, although she preferred the younger, who had been sent into temporary exile during the chaotic Three Kingdoms period in Chinese history. When the exiled brother finally…

June 6, 20220Comments BySeth Mallick

Opinion

A list of songs used by torturers

A HUGE NIGHTMARE has descended on Hong Kong. Yes, a new Y.U.U. song. Last year, the first song promoting the Y.U.U. shoppers’ loyalty card was played on a loop in thousands of shops for months, causing utter misery for shoppers and, surely, a major retail crisis. The new Y.U.U. song ("YUU to me") is 80…

June 6, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features

How psy-ops warriors fooled me about Tiananmen Square: a warning

THE MYTH OF THE “Tiananmen Square massacre” is arguably the most successful disinformation campaign of modern times, according to western and eastern sources—so much so that proud psychological warfare specialists recently used it to ADVERTISE their news manipulation skills. We’ll get to that below. As everyone knows by now, there have always been two dramatically…

June 4, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Community with most confidence in their style of democracy is the Chinese

There are 14 remarkable findings about China, Hong Kong, the US, free speech and elections, in the latest edition of the world's largest survey of democratic attitudes, which has just been released CHINESE PEOPLE FEEL better democratically represented by their system of governance than citizens of any other nation feel about their own, a major…

May 31, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Everything is being weaponised in a ‘disinformation war’

Leaders of Japan and other nations are warning of a need to be aware of a hidden battlefield in the media and social media The west has an unshakeable lead in hybrid warfare, leaving other regions struggling to be heard Three new books point to a host of other areas that are being or…

May 29, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features

Taxi drivers taught me to stop putting people in boxes

"Jik-hoi, mm-goi." That request - "Straight ahead, please" - is one of the few "taxi Cantonese" phrases most foreigners know. But writer Meno Monteir took the trouble to learn to speak the language and found that dialogues with taxi drivers were a good reminder to avoid the labelling processes that polarize us LIKE…

May 26, 20220Comments ByMeno Monteir

Humor spot: Solomon Islands

Clever pay-out scheme has China oldsters getting vaxxed

Thought-provoker: If you went back to 1955 Asia…

Humor spot: Tell me what country you’re from in two words

In love with a ghost: classic Chinese painting to appear at new Hong Kong museum

A list of songs used by torturers

How psy-ops warriors fooled me about Tiananmen Square: a warning

Community with most confidence in their style of democracy is the Chinese

Everything is being weaponised in a ‘disinformation war’

Taxi drivers taught me to stop putting people in boxes

FAQ: Is Hong Kong’s ‘Friday’ news project a commie plot from Beijing?

Hong Kong now has world’s top insurance penetration rate

Space: a new business frontier is opening up over our heads