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Yes, you’re half of a couple, but the law says that isn’t your spouse

While gay couples are welcome in Hong Kong, the city’s legal statues define “marriage” as the union of a man and a woman (as is true in communities which cover 80 per cent of humanity). So when one gay couple married overseas asked for legal “spousal rights” in Hong Kong, the answer could have been…

December 19, 20250Comments ByHenry Litton

Hong Kong News Opinion

How I fell out of love with the Hong Kong pan-democrats

I SUPPORTED THE so-called pro-democracy party in Hong Kong for many years. I knew the main members personally and happily stuffed my hard-earned cash into their collection boxes. But I increasingly felt something wasn’t right. Then I did some digging. And then I backed off as fast as I could. Here’s the story. A NEW…

December 15, 20250Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Seven myths about Jimmy Lai

BREAKING NEWS: JIMMY LAI WAS TODAY FOUND GUILTY of illegal collusion with foreign forces to hurt Hong Kong. The decision follows lengthy trial in which overwhelming evidence was presented against him – a lot of which came from the Apple Daily publisher’s own phone, filled with secret messages from hostile political operatives in the US…

December 15, 20250Comments ByNury Vittachi

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First Chinese medicine hospital launched in Hong Kong

ACTOR SELENA GOMEZ and five million other people are getting some good news from Hong Kong. Scientists in the city found that a root widely used in Chinese medicine can be combined with a western drug to enable it fight the incurable disease known as lupus. But that’s just one of about 200 Chinese medicine…

December 12, 20250Comments ByNury Vittachi

Hong Kong News Opinion

As Hong Kong people mourn, western journalists rush to politicize tragedy

Journalist James Ockenden found forged fire safety certificates in the wake of the Hong Kong tower fire. Nobody shut him up - on the contrary, the authorities took great interest in his probes into building safety. The truth about Hong Kong's excellent response to a horrific tragedy gives the lie to the international media's heartless…

December 10, 20250Comments ByJames Ockenden

Hong Kong News Opinion

West’s hybrid warfare team using Tai Po tragedy to destabilize Hong Kong

SHORTLY AFTER THE HORRIFIC seven-tower fire in Hong Kong, a person who gave herself the name “Hongkonger” appeared on social media showing incredible disrespect to the victims of the city’s recent tower block fire by printing photographs of burned corpses – while at the same time, she blamed the whole thing on the Chinese government…

December 10, 20250Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Being open-minded about China cost me friendships

Long-term Hong Kong resident Richard Cullen reflects on politics, friendships and the Tai Po fire. I first arrived to live and work in Hong Kong over 30 years ago. More recently I began to reflect on the way expressing my own political views on Hong Kong and China has reshaped some long-standing friendships. The recent…

December 10, 20250Comments ByRichard Cullen

Hong Kong News

Hong Kong now has world’s top insurance penetration rate

HONG KONG HAS THE world’s highest insurance penetration rate—and one of the few which is busy paying claims with speed and sympathy, it was revealed today. The first point shows the world-beating financial sophistication of the city on the south coast of China—and the second shows how the community is pulling together after the Tai…

December 3, 20250Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Space: a new business frontier is opening up over our heads

There are 14,000 satellites over our heads today - and the world's space experts will meet in 2027 to work out how to make space debris safe. Hong Kong has growing expertise in space technology, and is well-placed to play a role in what will undoubtably be an important new area of global industry, argues…

November 19, 20250Comments ByJames Ockenden

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2,600+ Chinese Mainland companies open offices in Hong Kong

MORE THAN 2,600 Chinese mainland companies have opened offices in Hong Kong, the city’s leader said today. The east-west city, once seen largely as a gateway for international businesses to enter the China market, is now super-busy enabling traffic to move the other way too. The Chinese business sector has become highly innovative and Hong…

November 18, 20250Comments ByNury Vittachi

Hong Kong News

Yes, you’re half of a couple, but the law says that isn’t your spouse

How I fell out of love with the Hong Kong pan-democrats

Seven myths about Jimmy Lai

First Chinese medicine hospital launched in Hong Kong

As Hong Kong people mourn, western journalists rush to politicize tragedy

West’s hybrid warfare team using Tai Po tragedy to destabilize Hong Kong

Being open-minded about China cost me friendships

Hong Kong now has world’s top insurance penetration rate

Space: a new business frontier is opening up over our heads

2,600+ Chinese Mainland companies open offices in Hong Kong

Six steps the world needs to take right now about the US and Venezuela: Jeffrey Sachs

China revives sky lantern tradition, after making them safe and non-polluting

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