Hong Kong’s biggest critic is under pressure after being caught up in the “Tory sleaze” crackdown in the UK.
Politician Iain Duncan Smith is facing questions about
taking £25,000 (about HK$265,000) a year for a “second job” advising a huge
sanitizer company—while making decisions that benefited it.
He chaired a UK government taskforce which recommended…

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TOP DEVELOPERS IN HONG KONG are embarking on an extraordinary low-rise experiment in the world’s tallest city – and keeping an ancient promise made by the British colonial governor to his businessman friends half a century ago.
Hong…
Multiple elements make up a long game that includes the Hong Kong protests and the Xinjiang Uyghur issue
Allegations are becoming extreme but Hongkongers are reacting with good humor
It’s wrong to paint the Chinese as the world’s biggest environmental villains, XR points out
Details not being shared tell a very different story
THE DEATH OF COLIN POWELL revived memories of the Iraq invasion in 2003. The US government, supported by much of the Western media, told the world that Iraq’s leaders had nukes and chemical weapons so had to be invaded. By the time the public learned none of it was true, they’d launched a cold war,…
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