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

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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

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‘One country two systems’ was for Taiwan: Maria Tam

The "one country, two systems" formula was originally designed for Taiwan, rather than Hong Kong, top lawyer Maria Tam said. It was not China but Britain who didn’t want Hong Kong people to have universal suffrage, the Basic Law drafter added. Meanwhile, Hong Kong’s political system has a surprise “expat-friendly” element which makes it uniquely…

March 8, 20220Comments BySeth Mallick

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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

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Bridge-builder reveals childhood illness that changed his life

ONE OF HONG KONG'S best-known businessman-politicians, Bernard Chan, revealed how a chronic health problem hit him as a teenager—and how learning to paint with a tiny bottle of correction fluid got him back on track. The convenor of the Executive Council, Hong Kong’s top governing body, told a TV interviewer that he was hit by…

February 20, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Mainland anti-Covid plan could work in Hong Kong

SOME PEOPLE ARE saying that the “test the whole population” system that worked so well in China could not be implemented in a non-mainland city like Hong Kong, which leans towards Western individualism rather than Chinese cohesiveness. That may not be true. The same Chinese “universal testing” program was tried in Macao, which has…

February 19, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

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UK takeaway assistant became a leader in China

A FORMER WORKER at a Chinese takeaway in the southern English city of Bristol has become a senior leader in China. Leung Chun-ying, who earned £10.50 (US$14) a week selling Chinese food, curry and chips, at a humble high street eatery is now vice chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a top governing…

February 14, 20220Comments BySeth Mallick

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Facebook may have peaked as Chinese app rises: analysts

NOW THAT THE DUST has settled, the money has been counted: and it’s a shocker. Facebook lost about US$250 billion in a single day last week, the biggest one-day drop of any company in the history of listed companies. That’s a quarter of a trillion US dollars. The main culprit? A Chinese app called TikTok.…

February 8, 20220Comments BySeth Mallick

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Hong Kongers who have retired over the border

MANY HONG KONG people have opted to go north for retirement. Currently, more than 500,000 Hongkongers, many of them elderly people, have already moved to the Mainland. They benefit from the SAR government’s special schemes for Guangdong and Fujian, which allow eligible seniors across the border to receive monthly welfare payments from Hong Kong.…

February 4, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

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How Hong Kong youngsters are getting TikTok back

IF YOU LIVE IN Hong Kong, you’re officially banned from accessing TikTok, the world’s fastest growing social app. But ever since the US branch of the company blocked Hongkongers from accessing it, smart youngsters have been getting around the problem. Keep reading and we’ll show you how to do it too. Or check out the…

January 31, 20220Comments ByAleesha Naqvi

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

China making more electric cars than all other nations put together

‘One country two systems’ was for Taiwan: Maria Tam

Mainland leaders actively working for Hong Kong’s good

Bridge-builder reveals childhood illness that changed his life

Mainland anti-Covid plan could work in Hong Kong

UK takeaway assistant became a leader in China

Hong Kongers who have retired over the border

How Hong Kong youngsters are getting TikTok back

Hong Kong comic book artists take wing to show off their art

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