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Finance-mad Hong Kong has a surprisingly strong spiritual side

PEOPLE ARE OFTEN surprised to discover that Hong Kong is a spiritual place. Although one might be forgiven for assuming this global finance center would be hardnosed and irreligious business city, this is not the case. About half of the population belong to organized belief groups, such as Buddhism, Taoism or Christianity. Are the other…

June 6, 20240Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Hong Kong subversion case: What you’re not being told

THE BIZARRE TALE of a 10-step plot to escalate chaos in Hong Kong until there was blood on the streets and destruction of the economy came to an end today. And the care taken by the judges shone a positive light on the Hong Kong judiciary - as did their openness in releasing their paperwork…

May 30, 20240Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Hong Kong food sector facing Shenzen challenge

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…

May 24, 20240Comments ByNury Vittachi

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China’s new Silk Road is transforming the world

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…

May 24, 20240Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Hong Kong ‘must prepare for climate challenges’

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,…

May 24, 20240Comments ByH.C. Lu

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Leaders jet into Hong Kong to save global trade

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…

May 14, 20240Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Tyranny of ideology: words are too elastic in same-sex marriage legislation

A look back at two pivotal same-sex marriage cases in Hong Kong show a lack of evidence, and a worrying elevation of imported European views over this community's own values, says senior legal mind Henry Litton. “Where Law Ends, Tyranny Begins”. This sentence (carved in stone over the entrance to the Capitol Building in Des…

April 11, 20240Comments ByHenry Litton

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Messages on Gaza vs Hong Kong show incredible hypocrisy

The world has been astonished at U.S. behavior in enabling the horrific destruction in Gaza, but that country still thinks it's fine to lecture Hong Kong for simply trying to break free of U.S. interference. Richard Cullen reports. VERY RECENTLY, leading British daily the Guardian ran remarkably informative side-by-side stories covering official United States perspectives…

April 7, 20240Comments ByRichard Cullen

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Chris Tang: Hong Kong is peaceful again

THE YEAR 2019 was a difficult period for Hong Kong, with violent unrest increasing from June onwards. Into this nightmare scenario stepped Hong Kong’s new police chief Chris Tang Ping-keung, who took the role at the height of the violence in November of 2019. He was immediately criticized by a hostile foreign media but became…

April 5, 20240Comments ByNury Vittachi

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HK’s finance chief returns to public housing roots

The journey of Paul Chan Mo-po from a humble background to the finance ministers table at Davos parallels the rise of Hong Kong itself A TRAGIC SHANTY TOWN fire in Hong Kong in the 1950s left more than 50,000 people homeless at a time when the population was growing through immigration by more than 10,000…

March 28, 20240Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Finance-mad Hong Kong has a surprisingly strong spiritual side

Hong Kong subversion case: What you’re not being told

Hong Kong food sector facing Shenzen challenge

China’s new Silk Road is transforming the world

Hong Kong ‘must prepare for climate challenges’

Leaders jet into Hong Kong to save global trade

Tyranny of ideology: words are too elastic in same-sex marriage legislation

Messages on Gaza vs Hong Kong show incredible hypocrisy

Chris Tang: Hong Kong is peaceful again

HK’s finance chief returns to public housing roots

Starmer meets Xi today, hopes to rebuild UK’s relationship

Treasures from 800-year-old sunken vessel exhibited in Hong Kong

At the Great Wall, I learned how the Chinese dealt with their enemies