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China bans slavery, jumps ahead of US on workers’ rights

THE CHINESE BANNED slavery this week. This puts the country further ahead of the United States in the legal protection of workers. The world’s most populous country signed up to two more international conventions against forced labor. This means China has now signed up to six out of eight rights declarations protecting workers of…

April 21, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Culture

A stodgy state-owned enterprise becomes an innovator

THE POSTMAN’S AT THE DOOR. Is he holding a bundle of letters? No. He hands you a week’s worth of choi sum, some gai laan and a bag of onions. During difficult periods of Covid-19, China Post started providing a hassle-free home delivery service of vegetables for local communities. But that’s not all. If you…

April 20, 20220Comments ByEmily Zhou

Opinion

Fortitude is essential for next leader of Hong Kong

Western powers work hard to discredit anyone who doesn’t opt for their self-proclaimed “true” democratic system With powerful forces arranged against us, the new Chief Executive will have to be strong and resolute Slander is inevitable so courage and sharp critical thinking skills will be a must THE ELECTION OF THE NEXT Chief Executive of…

April 9, 20220Comments ByKevin Lau

Features

Paint all your walls green, now

Or simply head for the hills. There's a lot of anxiety in Hong Kong and one of the best ways to alleviate it is to spend time in the nearest patch of green forest. While most people know green is associated with calmness, it has a secret power that scientists are just beginning to understand.…

April 8, 20220Comments ByAleesha Naqvi

Features

To be a ‘smart city’ Hong Kong is cultivating smart people

Hong Kong's definition of "smart city" includes smart people: 60% of senior secondary students study one or more STEM-related elective subjects in 2019/20, every student has to study mathematics, and the city has four of the world's top universities. H.C. Lu reports. HONG KONG WAS CRITICIZED by some newspapers last year for scoring relatively…

April 6, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

Features

The govt is sending you Chinese medicine. Is it safe?

Some people are nervous about taking Chinese medicine. Don't be. It's good stuff, widely used around the world, it provides ingredients to Western medicine, and one practicioner won a Nobel Prize in medicine for a recipe she found in an ancient Chinese book of remedies. Aleesha Naqvi reports MANY NON-CHINESE Hong Kongers have probably never…

April 5, 20220Comments ByAleesha Naqvi

Culture

Online access to Tang Dynasty art classics

SOME OF THE GREATEST classic art in the region came from the Tang Dynasty -- extraordinary murals, capturing life more than a thousand years ago. Click here to join a virtual journey which takes you back in time into the heart of Chang’an, the biggest city in the world at that time. The video…

April 4, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

Features

Why Hong Kong’s Omicron death toll suddenly soared

For two years, Hong Kong demonstrated an admirable capacity to retain robust control of COVID-19 outbreaks. This durable achievement was, however, grimly transformed by the Omicron driven fifth wave of COVID cases. Richard Cullen looks at what went wrong A RESPECTED, VETERAN Hong Kong journalist, Peter Kammerer, argued in the South China Morning Post…

March 31, 20220Comments ByRichard Cullen

News

Hong Kong women are scooping up younger male marriage partners

LADIES, WOULD YOU consider marrying a younger man? Yes please, say Hong Kong women. Thousands of them have been going north into Mainland China to find younger males to wed. The border closures have halted the process, but demographers expect it to restart before the end of the year. The bride-older-than-groom trend, rare across…

March 30, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

News

Mind control and Molotovs: Hong Kong’s special pandemic challenges

Initial hostile reactions to quarantine facilities and the vaccines in Hong Kong (arson attacks, mind control accusations, and "a way for Beijing to steal our DNA!") seem bizarre to us now, but they are just two years old. THERE HAS BEEN A LOT of criticism regarding deaths in Hong Kong’s fifth wave of Covid.…

March 17, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

China bans slavery, jumps ahead of US on workers’ rights

A stodgy state-owned enterprise becomes an innovator

Fortitude is essential for next leader of Hong Kong

Paint all your walls green, now

To be a ‘smart city’ Hong Kong is cultivating smart people

The govt is sending you Chinese medicine. Is it safe?

Online access to Tang Dynasty art classics

Why Hong Kong’s Omicron death toll suddenly soared

Hong Kong women are scooping up younger male marriage partners

Mind control and Molotovs: Hong Kong’s special pandemic challenges

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