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Dealing with conflict in Asian boardrooms and bedrooms: Allison Heiliczer

SOME PEOPLE READ an article that changes how they boil an egg or make a salad. Allison Heiliczer read an article that changed the direction of her life. She was a 16-year-old New Yorker who had just moved to California, when she picked up a magazine and started reading a profile of a Japanese-American family…

March 10, 20250Comments ByNury Vittachi

China news Hong Kong News

Time to accelerate tech integration between Hong Kong and Shenzhen

Plans exist to integrate Asia's financial capital, Hong Kong, with Asia's tech capital, Shenzhen. Time to accelerate that operation for the benefits it will bring, argues Herman Hu, writing from the Two Sessions meeting in Beijing. ASIA'S FINANCIAL CAPITAL and tech capital are teaming up. The dynamism of Hong Kong and Shenzhen are set to…

March 7, 20250Comments ByHerman Hu

Hong Kong News Opinion

Golf controversy leaves the law stranded in the bunker

A decision to use a section of Hong Kong's best-known golf course for much-needed public housing became a major controversy. The necessary environmental impact assessment was misunderstood as a referendum on the public housing project, leading to widespread confusion, reports retired judge Henry Litton. The government’s proposal to take over a portion of the Fanling…

January 16, 20250Comments ByHenry Litton

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In Hong Kong and mainland China, we’re hooked on aircons

HONG KONG IS COOL. And not just in the metaphorical sense. Fully 99% of homes in the southern Chinese city are well-chilled thanks to technology. With hot, humid summers, and mild winters, air-conditioners are ubiquitous, and most residents use them for much of the year. Fortunately, energy bills are relatively low, with about 20% of…

January 16, 20250Comments BySimon Renshaw

Hong Kong News

Hong Kong teacher finds job in UK – at one tenth of her pay

THE ONLY JOB a Hong Kong teacher who moved to the UK on the BNO scheme could find was as an assistant in a nursing home—at one tenth of her usual pay. And she's not alone. Three years later, most Hong Kongers who went to UK are still looking for jobs—they are also struggling with…

December 29, 20240Comments ByNury Vittachi

Hong Kong News

Hong Kong firm becomes global leader in hacker-proofing organizations

Just using anti-virus software doesn't cut it these days: companies are looking for managed cybersecurity with a powerful network of humans and machines working together. Image above shows Mark Webb-Johnson of Network Box. FROM A HI-TECH SECURITY OPERATIONS CENTER in Kowloon, a firm called Network Box has quietly risen to a role in which it…

December 5, 20240Comments ByNury Vittachi

Hong Kong News Opinion

Hong Kong has the tech ability to move into space logistics

The concept of the "low-altitude economy", such as drone-powered delivery of products, services, and even people, is all the buzz. But leading Hong Kong aerospace expert, Professor Dewey Yee, says we could aim higher, literally, to put the city at the forefront of space logistics FOR MOST HONG KONG people, it was unimaginable that a…

December 3, 20240Comments ByDewey Yee

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Sports tourism poised to inject fresh vibrancy to Hong Kong

HONG KONG CAN embrace tourism and entertainment activities with mega-sized sports events to woo more global tourist arrivals amid the grand opening of the Kai Tak Sports Park, and the co-hosting of the 2025 National Games, the sports sector’s leaders and think tank Our Hong Kong Foundation said last week. The Kai Tak Sports Park…

October 14, 20240Comments ByH.C. Lu

Hong Kong News News Opinion

CFA’s ‘Elephant in the room’

The journey taken by the prosecution relating to a famous illegal march in August 2019 has been bizarre, reports Henry Litton. THE FINAL DETERMINATION in the Court of Final Appeal ( CFA ) of the case arising from the so-called “818 Procession” is both bizarre and disturbing. The case was founded on hard facts and clear criminality, yet…

October 2, 20240Comments ByHenry Litton

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Hong Kong emerging as a global biotech hub

HONG KONG IS WELL-POSITIONED to develop a vibrant and international biotech hub with its world-class universities, advanced research and development facilities and an exemplary ecosystem. Policymakers, experts, academics, top enterprises' executives, capital investors and others in biotech industry were seen at the BIOHK2024 convention, held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on September…

September 26, 20240Comments ByH.C. Lu