How Hong Kong youngsters are getting TikTok back

IF YOU LIVE IN Hong Kong, you’re officially banned from accessing TikTok, the world’s fastest growing social app. But ever since the US branch of the company blocked Hongkongers from accessing it, smart youngsters have been getting around the problem. Keep reading and we’ll show you how to do it too. Or check out the…

January 31, 20220Comments ByAleesha Naqvi

Opinion

Zero Covid: reactions to NZ versus China

It's amusing to compare the rapturous headlines from when New Zealand achieved zero covid, not long ago, to today's negative ones for China; This report can be read as text, by scrolling down, or watched as a video, by clicking here. HAVE YOU HEARD what the Chinese are doing now? They are forcing their citizens…

January 24, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Under the surface, a very different Hong Kong story

The widely reported narrative that Beijing tried to impose a law to snatch dissidents from Hong Kong in 2019 was never true Peaceful demonstrators quickly fled the protests as they realized something dark, violent, and well-organized lay just below the surface The media simply relayed stories and numbers they were given by one side,…

January 20, 20220Comments ByMichael Edesess

News

US flights banned as HK sacrifices CNY fairs

OMICRON IS AIRBORNE now, forcing scientists in one of the world’s most Covid-proof cities to scramble for new measures. Hong Kong has banned all flights from the US, UK, Australia, Canada, France and the Philippines until February 4. Lunar New Year Fairs are all cancelled—a major sacrifice in a community for which the annual…

January 15, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features

All change at Legco

A new regular feature, Friday Numbers, highlights data in Hong Kong and mainland China TODAY IS THE first session of Legislative Council under the new electoral arrangements. As the first in series of Friday Numbers, we walk you through important figures which you may not be aware of in other media. Image…

January 12, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

News

Kazakhstan operatives claim Hong Kong link

HYBRID WAR SPECIALISTS working in Kakakhstan say they studied the violent 2019 Hong Kong “revolution” attempt. Then they gathered experienced activists from the 2014 Ukraine revolution and flew to Almaty in Kazakhstan to prepare for the current mayhem in that country. We “studied the experience of protests in Hong Kong and other countries,” said Dzmitry…

January 12, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Opinion

Democracy. . . but for whom?

Henry Ho rebuts an editorial in the Economist on democracy in Hong Kong I REFER TO THE article “Pliant patriots” in the Leaders Section of The Economist on Jan 8-14 2022. It argued that the newly sworn-in legislature in Hong Kong is a “mockery of democracy”. While no popular elections were introduced by the…

January 12, 20220Comments ByHenry Ho