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Idea: Existing tech can be used to ease Hong Kongers’ time spent in Chinese mainland

The ‘iAM Smart’ platform, which serves as a real-name database, can be used to make it easier for Hong Kong people to spend time in the Chinese Mainland PROMINENT HONG KONG businessman Herman Hu Shao-ming last week suggested that the city’s “iAM Smart” ID-card linked real name database could be integrated with the national-level identity…

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Hong Kong can ‘integrate more deeply’ with growing mainland economy

ONE OF CHINA’S top leaders called on Hong Kong to become more deeply involved with the Chinese Mainland’s steady program of economic development. The financial city on the south coast of the country could “better integrate into national development”, said Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang, during the Two Sessions—an annual government meeting in Beijing. This could certainly…

March 9, 20260Comments ByFriday Writers

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Panama storms Hong Kong company after US threats of invasion

BREAKING NEWS: THE PANAMA AUTHORITIES stormed the Hong Kong-run port terminals in its country and ordered staff to leave immediately, workers revealed yesterday. The strong-armed takeover of the pair of terminals follows threats from US President Donald Trump that his country’s armed forces would invade Panama unless the area was rid of “Chinese soldiers”. The…

February 24, 20260Comments ByNury Vittachi

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David Webb and the Quiet Power of an Unbought Voice

WHEN NEWS BROKE that David Webb had passed away, the reaction in Hong Kong’s financial circles was strikingly divided. Some felt genuine loss. Others fell into an uneasy silence. That contrast alone says much about his place in the city’s capital markets. Webb was never a celebrity investor in the conventional sense. He did not…

January 22, 20260Comments ByKen Ip

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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

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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

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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

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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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Idea: Existing tech can be used to ease Hong Kongers’ time spent in Chinese mainland

Hong Kong can ‘integrate more deeply’ with growing mainland economy

Panama storms Hong Kong company after US threats of invasion

David Webb and the Quiet Power of an Unbought Voice

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

Idea: Existing tech can be used to ease Hong Kongers’ time spent in Chinese mainland

A lawyer’s journey: from 1980s China to a top spot at the United Nations

Chinese legal system growing fast, with continuous refinements