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Hong Kong’s new cultural district deserves our support

Believe it or not, this wide, green open waterfront space (pictured above) is in Hong Kong, a place more famous for developers frantically crowding buildings into every spare centimeter. This area should be celebrated, but the West Kowloon Cultural Center is being criticized for not being profitable. That argument is missing the point, says Brian…

October 31, 20230Comments ByBrian Renwick

News Opinion

How NOT to write about Hong Kong and mainland China

The western mainstream media's brutally negative narrative about Hong Kong has spontaneously caused the emergence of a range of voices energized to stand up and speak out for the community, says Richard Cullen. AFTER ENCOUNTERING a fresh set of unvaried, China-thumping articles in the New York Times, I sometimes wonder if others, like me, mentally…

October 5, 20230Comments ByRichard Cullen

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Here’s what needs to be done to boost Hong Kong’s nightlife

While Hong Kong looks great at night, some of the rigid regulations need to be loosened, says Henry Ho WITH VICTORIA HARBOUR’S dazzling night time scenes and skyline, glittering neon signs and spectacular tourist attractions, Hong Kong, described as “the Pearl of the Orient”, is nothing short of an urban spectacle. It is excellent news…

September 28, 20230Comments ByHenry Ho

Opinion

Life on a geopolitical fault line

Hong Kong can do nothing right, it seems. But it’s not the community’s fault: it lives on a fault line, trying to balance between two much larger, more powerful entities. Richard Cullen recalls a different occasion when two big powers, the US and the UK, had a difference of opinion. Often, much smaller communities end…

August 31, 20230Comments ByRichard Cullen

Culture Opinion

This garden opened my mind to the music of elegance

CANTONESE OPERA (粵劇), one of the most representative cultural symbols of the Lingnan region (嶺南地區), the area south of the Nanling mountains (南嶺山脈), is the foundation and origin of modern Cantonese music. The first time I heard about Cantonese music was when I was learning the Guzheng (古箏). My teacher said that it would be…

August 24, 20230Comments ByEmily Zhou

News Opinion

Hong Kong’s fugitives and Canberra’s remarkable response

The Hong Kong authorities recently issued arrest warrants for eight individuals living offshore who are alleged to have breached the National Security Law. Canberra has swiftly jumped to express concern for the two fugitives who live in Australia. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that this rash response reflects, in part, a felt-need in…

July 18, 20230Comments ByRichard Cullen

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Harvard China academic takes on the Economist

The Economist magazine recently pushed dramatic statistical claims about the USA’s apparently world-beating economic growth. These figures raised the eyebrows of a prominent Harvard professor who responded that the numbers worked just fine - but only if China was omitted! The publication responded to his impudence by going on an energetic attack with a cover…

June 7, 20230Comments ByRichard Cullen

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I’m sorry, but the toxic G-7 ‘rich club’ is past its sell-by date

YET ANOTHER G-7 meeting has passed with yet another embarrassing show of insecurity by a group that is well past its sell-by date. The G-7 is such an anachronism, a relic of the past clinging on to a crumbling façade of make-believe power in a rapidly changing world. The images and the narrative all speak…

May 25, 20230Comments ByChandran Nair

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Strong performance in the past, good prospects ahead

TIME HAS REALLY FLOWN over the past five years. That’s what one feels when considering the Standing Committee’s work report for the 13th National People’s Congress. So much has been achieved at a good pace. Laws have been formulated, revised and explained, decisions have been made on legal and related matters, and resolutions have been…

March 21, 20230Comments ByHerman Hu

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Banning our trade offices will harm Hong Kong people

Hong Kong's film makers and fashion designers would be hit if US politicians succeed in banning the city's trade representative offices, which actively promote their works. This is the latest in a long list of strategies that harm Hong Kong people but are dressed up as "saving" us. In reality Hong Kong and the United…

March 16, 20230Comments ByAndrew Lam

Opinion

Hong Kong’s new cultural district deserves our support

How NOT to write about Hong Kong and mainland China

Here’s what needs to be done to boost Hong Kong’s nightlife

Life on a geopolitical fault line

This garden opened my mind to the music of elegance

Hong Kong’s fugitives and Canberra’s remarkable response

Harvard China academic takes on the Economist

I’m sorry, but the toxic G-7 ‘rich club’ is past its sell-by date

Strong performance in the past, good prospects ahead

Banning our trade offices will harm Hong Kong people

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