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Hong Kong’s amazing cultural heritage shows who we really are

Even though our city has its own identity, the extraordinary examples of tangible and intangible history of us as a people are found everywhere, and help us define ourselves, writes Legislative Councillor Andrew Lam AS AN INTERNATIONAL AND modern metropolis, many local people of the younger generation or our friends from abroad find it surprising…

April 23, 20220Comments ByAndrew Lam

Opinion

The West is just taking whatever it wants: that will blow back

Financiers are expressing growing concern about the under-reported western assault on international property rights The neutrality of the world's reserve currency has been sacrificed for political ends, but where's the outrage? Or even discussion? Jim Rogers and others are warning of serious long-term negative consequences, saying the US dollar will ultimately die THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING…

April 23, 20220Comments ByRichard Cullen

News

Boosted Sinovac as strong as mRNA, study shows

THE TWO-DOSE Sinovac program gives a level of protection almost as strong as BioNTech, while adding a booster makes them virtually equal, with the Chinese vaccine slightly stronger among older patients. The results come from a study at Hong Kong University, which including a number of top names in the field, including Gabriel Leung, Benjamin…

April 22, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Six new nuclear reactors to be built on China coast

SIX NEW NUCLEAR reactors are to be built in China, it was revealed today. The ambitious plan is to help the country meet its targets to wean itself off coal. The new reactors will be on the coastal provinces, including Guangdong, Shandong and Fujian. China's first nuclear plant was in Daya Bay in Guangdong in…

April 21, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

China bans slavery, jumps ahead of US on workers’ rights

THE CHINESE BANNED slavery this week. This puts the country further ahead of the United States in the legal protection of workers. The world’s most populous country signed up to two more international conventions against forced labor. This means China has now signed up to six out of eight rights declarations protecting workers of…

April 21, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Culture

A stodgy state-owned enterprise becomes an innovator

THE POSTMAN’S AT THE DOOR. Is he holding a bundle of letters? No. He hands you a week’s worth of choi sum, some gai laan and a bag of onions. During difficult periods of Covid-19, China Post started providing a hassle-free home delivery service of vegetables for local communities. But that’s not all. If you…

April 20, 20220Comments ByEmily Zhou

Features News

Everything you think you know about Hong Kong is wrong, pt. 1

As Hong Kong gets ready for a new leader on May 8, with all eyes on former police officer John Lee Ka-chiu, there's much discussion about the presence/ absence of our ability to choose our head of state. Yet too much of conventional wisdom on that huge subject is not just factually incorrect, but the…

April 19, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Culture

‘We’re still Hong Kongers’ say non-Chinese young people

Teenage reporter Aleesha Naqvi interviewed non-Chinese youngsters in Hong Kong to ask if they felt they belonged here - and discovered that despite the differences, they're proud to call this city home. WHO CARES WHAT COLOR your passport is? Or your skin, come to that! Despite having foreign passports, many non-Chinese children identify as Hong…

April 19, 20220Comments ByAleesha Naqvi

Culture Videos

1967: When western pop discovered Chinese culture

GARY BROOKER DIED RECENTLY. Most people won’t know that name. But huge numbers of people around the world would recognize the 1967 tune he wrote with his bandmate Matthew Fisher: which became a worldwide hit song called A Whiter Shade of Pale. Scroll down to read the rest of the text version of this report,…

April 19, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features News

Animoca puts NFT-creation into hands of gamers, artists

JUST A DECADE AGO, journalists were sceptical about Hong Kong’s attempts to create its own Silicon Valley in its business parks, and were uninterested in developments in neighbouring Guangdong. How quickly things change. Today, there are 43 unicorns (tech jargon for new, unlisted companies worth more than US$1 billion) in Hong Kong and the…

April 19, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Hong Kong’s amazing cultural heritage shows who we really are

The West is just taking whatever it wants: that will blow back

Boosted Sinovac as strong as mRNA, study shows

Six new nuclear reactors to be built on China coast

China bans slavery, jumps ahead of US on workers’ rights

A stodgy state-owned enterprise becomes an innovator

Everything you think you know about Hong Kong is wrong, pt. 1

‘We’re still Hong Kongers’ say non-Chinese young people

1967: When western pop discovered Chinese culture

Animoca puts NFT-creation into hands of gamers, artists

Hong Kong quietly becomes major tennis hub for the world

3-parent baby case led to one of the oddest reviews in HK legal history

This child has three parents: so who is his mother?