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US strategist calls for Taiwan to buy more guns

TAIWAN MUST DIVERT huge amounts of its people’s money to spend on weapons, US war strategist Elbridge Colby said yesterday. “I honestly don't get why Taiwan isn't spending 10% or more of its GDP on defense,” he wrote. Ten per cent or more? For comparison, most countries spend about 2%, or less, and the United…

October 12, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Scientist wins Nobel for showing that reality isn’t real

A VISITING HONG KONG scientist has just won the Nobel prize for experimentally proving that the real world… isn’t real. Wait, what? The world isn’t real? Correct. And even though the physical world is not real, it has nonetheless given scientist Alain Aspect the Nobel Prize for Physics, along with two other scientists in the…

October 12, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Chinese history Hong Kong News

The forgotten ‘bromance’ between communists and colonials

Hong Kong became host to an extraordinary Communist school in the 1940s The British asked Communists to work as the police in the New Territories A Hong Kong war hero got an MBE before being killed by a Taiwanese bomb ONE OF THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY episodes in modern history was a “bromance” between British colonial…

October 11, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

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‘U.S. aims to turn Taiwan into giant arms depot’

SEE THAT HEADLINE? “U.S. Aims to Turn Taiwan Into Giant Weapons Depot”. This is not from the news spoof website called The Onion. This is an ACTUAL HEADLINE in the New York Times today. The article doesn’t present this as a bizarre and incredibly dangerous thing to do. It presents it as an ordinary news…

October 7, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Chinese history Culture Hong Kong News

The strange tale of the King of Lantau Island

The last Emperor of the Southern Song was a fleeing young royal family member who lived in the Hong Kong town of Mui Wo on Lantau island. He’s been long forgotten now, but the opening of a new metro station named after a monument to him and his brother has revived interest in his astounding…

October 4, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

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Global spread of fake China story creates credibility crisis

THERE ARE RED FACES all over the media this week after an insane story about a coup in China was shared around the world. Huge numbers of journalists, east and west, took a clearly invented tale about the arrest of Chinese leader Xi Jinping seriously. “Where there’s smoke there’s fire, as they say, and there…

September 26, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Cows arrive in Hong Kong to produce fresh ice cream

A HERD OF COWS arrived in Hong Kong this week to produce fresh milk and ice cream. Until now, residents have the dubious honor of having the world’s most expensive milk, imported from mainland China or other countries. Importers had asked for the cows to arrive already pregnant – so the herd may grow in…

September 22, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Top economist roasted after admitting puzzlement

TOP U.S. ECONOMIST LARRY SUMMERS is being roasted on social media at the moment after he expressed surprise that the capitalist society in which he lived had serious, mounting problems. People aren’t working, couples aren’t getting married, many folk are depressed or suicidal, and politics is being polarized. The former U.S. government moneyman revealed…

September 22, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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China trims Ecuador debt by $1b, growing its fan club

THE PEOPLE OF ECUADOR revealed on Monday that China had slashed their debt by more than US$1 billion. Cash saved will go to social programs for the needy. By restructuring the developing country’s bailout, the Chinese are effectively foregoing US$1.4 billion in repayments—which is good for Ecuador. “It’s a positive deal. There is an important…

September 21, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Despairing China teacher encouraged by social voices

A U.S. UNIVERSITY LECTURER who expressed despair at the impossibility of fighting negative media “framing” of China got a nice surprise today. A range of supportive voices on social media encouraged her not to quit. A few hours ago, Dr Lin Zhang of the University of New Hampshire posted a sad lament on Twitter, saying…

September 20, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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US strategist calls for Taiwan to buy more guns

Scientist wins Nobel for showing that reality isn’t real

The forgotten ‘bromance’ between communists and colonials

‘U.S. aims to turn Taiwan into giant arms depot’

The strange tale of the King of Lantau Island

Global spread of fake China story creates credibility crisis

Cows arrive in Hong Kong to produce fresh ice cream

Top economist roasted after admitting puzzlement

China trims Ecuador debt by $1b, growing its fan club

Despairing China teacher encouraged by social voices

3-parent baby case led to one of the oddest reviews in HK legal history

This child has three parents: so who is his mother?

Scientists find ‘feminist paradise’ existed more than 4 millennia ago