HONG KONG'S FOOD KING revealed that he started out working at McDonald’s, the US fast food giant.
Tommy Cheung, who represents the food industry at the Legislative Council, Hong Kong’s parliament, revealed that his first job was making burgers while studying in the United States. “I bought my first used car with my first paycheck…
MORE THAN 22 CENTURIES AGO, the Silk Road connected east and west in a global trade route that changed the world. Today, the Belt and Road Initiative, or BRI, is repeating that miracle on a much bigger scale.
The BRI is already the biggest infrastructure project in world history, and it is only 10 years…
CLIMATE ADVOCATE NATALIE CHUNG called for Hong Kong to prepare for more climate challenges and map out a resilient response.
Global warming is one of the most challenging issues that Hong Kong and the world are facing and it requires collective efforts by the government and various sectors to resolve it, she said.
Last year,…
A CLASSIC DRAMA of old Beijing has become a hit production in Hong Kong - and introduced a trio of top mainland actors to a new audience.
On 16 May, famous Chinese actors Zhang Guoli (張國立), Wang Gang (王剛) and Zhang Tielin (張鐵林), known as the "Golden trio" of Chinese acting, performed together in the…
YES, THE US SOLAR PANEL industry has been stomped on. But who did the damage?
The answer will come as a surprise.
No, it wasn’t China. The US did the harm itself.
The solar industry in America was decimated BECAUSE an earlier incarnation of the US government introduced tariffs against Chinese solar panels.
That was…
TOP SCIENTISTS AND business leaders jetted into Hong Kong yesterday for a geopolitical conference to save global trade.
The aim: to plot a path out of the current impasse, in which US insecurity about China’s peaceful rise is causing a splintering of international relationships to a level unseen since the Second World War.
‘THREAT TO…
As I walk up Wyndham Street in Central on the last day of April, the iconic red brick building of the Fringe Club catches my eye: and the display seen through the glass differs from the modern art panels more commonly seen there.
Exterior of the Fringe Club.
I push open the door to Anita Chan…
China quietly took 9 steps toward peace for Palestine
GAZA'S REPRESENTATIVES invited China, Russia and Türkiye to stand with their community in any forthcoming peace deal with Israel and the west.
The Palestinians want the three non-western nations to be “co-guarantors” of the eventual pact that ends the fighting, said the head of the Hamas…
THE POPULAR GAME known in China as Weiqi and internationally as Go is the world's oldest known board game that has been continually played. Legend tracks it back more than four thousand years. If we stick to solid historical evidence, we can see that it was played a still impressive 2,500 years ago.
But…
It is sometimes said that America bombs while China builds. What's the evidence, and where are the statistics? Richard Cullen takes us through a historical journey to look at exactly how we got to this point.
LET'S EXAMINE THE ORIGIN and nature of the broad global footprints of America and China which are evident across…