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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

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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

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Chinese had trendy chai-lattes 1000 years ago, historians find

ENJOYED A NICE trendy cup of foam-topped matcha-flavored lactose-free caffeine recently? Well, guess who invented that drink? Starbucks? Maybe a Japanese branch of Starbucks? No. The Chinese did, a thousand years ago. It has become almost a cliché for historians to search for things that we think are modern, and then locate ancient Chinese versions.…

April 11, 20220Comments ByEmily Zhou

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Despite obituaries, Hong Kong’s legal system healthier than ever

In at least one aspect, Hong Kong only fully gained the rule of law after the handover, says top barrister Grenville Cross Before 1997, his work took him to many places, including on a rather scary journey to Downing Street to see an ancient body of Law Lords The National Security Law in Hong Kong…

April 11, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Paint all your walls green, now

Or simply head for the hills. There's a lot of anxiety in Hong Kong and one of the best ways to alleviate it is to spend time in the nearest patch of green forest. While most people know green is associated with calmness, it has a secret power that scientists are just beginning to understand.…

April 8, 20220Comments ByAleesha Naqvi

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To be a ‘smart city’ Hong Kong is cultivating smart people

Hong Kong's definition of "smart city" includes smart people: 60% of senior secondary students study one or more STEM-related elective subjects in 2019/20, every student has to study mathematics, and the city has four of the world's top universities. H.C. Lu reports. HONG KONG WAS CRITICIZED by some newspapers last year for scoring relatively…

April 6, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

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The govt is sending you Chinese medicine. Is it safe?

Some people are nervous about taking Chinese medicine. Don't be. It's good stuff, widely used around the world, it provides ingredients to Western medicine, and one practicioner won a Nobel Prize in medicine for a recipe she found in an ancient Chinese book of remedies. Aleesha Naqvi reports MANY NON-CHINESE Hong Kongers have probably never…

April 5, 20220Comments ByAleesha Naqvi

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The boy who had to see for himself: Allan Zeman

At 16, he was earning more than his teachers At 19, he flew across the world to look for his fortune In a noisy factory in Kowloon, he found it IT WAS 1968, Hey Jude was on every radio, and a tall thin teenager disembarked from a Panam flight at Kai Tak airport in Hong…

April 4, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Facts vs politics in the ‘living with Covid’ debate

China’s firm, serious approach to managing the Covid pandemic has differed from that of many other countries, and has clearly worked rather well. Yet Western media outlets feel compelled to tell China that it has slipped badly behind the times by not shifting, as they have, to Living with Covid. Seeing other (surely inferior!) societies doing…

March 31, 20220Comments ByRichard Cullen

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Why Hong Kong’s Omicron death toll suddenly soared

For two years, Hong Kong demonstrated an admirable capacity to retain robust control of COVID-19 outbreaks. This durable achievement was, however, grimly transformed by the Omicron driven fifth wave of COVID cases. Richard Cullen looks at what went wrong A RESPECTED, VETERAN Hong Kong journalist, Peter Kammerer, argued in the South China Morning Post…

March 31, 20220Comments ByRichard Cullen

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

Animoca puts NFT-creation into hands of gamers, artists

Chinese had trendy chai-lattes 1000 years ago, historians find

Despite obituaries, Hong Kong’s legal system healthier than ever

Paint all your walls green, now

To be a ‘smart city’ Hong Kong is cultivating smart people

The govt is sending you Chinese medicine. Is it safe?

The boy who had to see for himself: Allan Zeman

Facts vs politics in the ‘living with Covid’ debate

Why Hong Kong’s Omicron death toll suddenly soared

Incredible story of how a farming province in China beat London, L.A. and Chicago in science rankings

In Xinjiang, I stepped into a different world

City of the future: Hong Kong is just about to go through a transformation