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Mainland leaders actively working for Hong Kong’s good

Hong Kong was in the spotlight at the annual meeting of China’s parliament on Monday Vice-Premier focused on the city in special session with 17 Hong Kong deputies Pandemic and livelihood issues are key focuses CHINA’S LEADER XI JINPING personally expressed a high level of concern about the latest pandemic situation in Hong…

March 8, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

Culture

Mi Yue: The extraordinary life of a lowly concubine

It seemed unlikely that the teenage girl would achieve anything in her life: but fate would take her to the top of the ladder Yet even when she was the most powerful woman in the land, she faced an impossible decision, asked to prove her loyalty by killing the man she loved Two thousand years…

March 7, 20220Comments ByEmily Zhou

Opinion

Hong Kong, mainland join hands to fight pandemic

THE NUMBER OF CASES of Covid-19 in Hong Kong has skyrocketed since the Lunar New Year. It is heartbreaking to learn of the passing away of hundreds of our citizens, including an 11-month-old baby and dozens of elders aged 80 or above. Following five rounds of meetings in Shenzhen chaired by Xia Baolong, director…

March 1, 20220Comments ByHenry Ho

News

Squat toilet or luxury hospital suite? Start praying now

Seven things to know about what's happening as the virus sweeps through Hong Kong 1) YOU WILL HATE THIS As Covid sweeps through Hong Kong, workers have worked day and night to create temporary isolation centers at high speed – but they are NOT luxurious. They are basically container-sized boxes with three beds in…

March 1, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Culture

Art dance revives interest in tragic Song Dynasty painter

A teenage painter's extraordinary skill marked him out for a great career, but fate had other plans. The "Emperor of Art" who mentored him came to an even sadder end. That happened 900 years ago, yet the story of the boy and his royal teacher, and the one painting he created, has inspired…

February 28, 20220Comments ByEmily Zhou

Opinion

Seven things I got wrong: a journalist owns up

I GOT IT WRONG. I thought Vladimir Putin would stay on his side of the border. But nope, not correct at all. I. Got. It. Wrong. Journalists get thousands of things wrong in our careers, and in that regard, I consider myself the Chief of Sinners. We try to excuse ourselves by saying that…

February 27, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Hong Kong legal system to go beyond 2047: Teresa Cheng

HONG KONG'S BRITISH-STYLE legal system will carry on past 2047, the city’s legal chief said yesterday. It will not switch to the civil law system used by mainland China and most countries around the world, Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng Yeuk-wah said last night. “The ‘one country, two systems’ [policy] will continue, and with it,…

February 26, 20220Comments BySeth Mallick

Culture

The girl who was married to the edge of the world

MORE THAN TWO millennia ago, a 14-year-old girl was sent on an epic journey to unite two great powers and change the course of history. She was a Chinese orphan named Liu Xijun, and she had an important job to do. To the north of China lived the powerful empire of the Xiongnu, a which…

February 24, 20220Comments ByEmily Zhou

Opinion

Hong Kong should choose cohesiveness over individualism

Communities face a stark choice in fighting Covid, says top Hong Kong lawyer Ambrose Lam San-keung: either we follow mainland China’s united action to save lives, or the West’s preservation of individual rights to sacrifice the vulnerable AS THE SPREAD of the Omicron variant continues to rise in Hong Kong, there has been much…

February 24, 20220Comments ByAmbrose Lam

Culture

Virus silences Cantonese opera, but just for a while

A major Cantonese opera event was due to take place in Hong Kong this week. But the Arts Festival's 50th anniversary celebration of the signature Cantonese operas of Sun Ma Sze Tsang, has been postponed due to the city's Covid precautions. The star, who died in 1997, was due to have his works interpreted by…

February 23, 20220Comments ByLee Chack Fan

Mainland leaders actively working for Hong Kong’s good

Mi Yue: The extraordinary life of a lowly concubine

Hong Kong, mainland join hands to fight pandemic

Squat toilet or luxury hospital suite? Start praying now

Art dance revives interest in tragic Song Dynasty painter

Seven things I got wrong: a journalist owns up

Hong Kong legal system to go beyond 2047: Teresa Cheng

The girl who was married to the edge of the world

Hong Kong should choose cohesiveness over individualism

Virus silences Cantonese opera, but just for a while

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?

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