WESTERN REPORTERS: YOUR CHAUVINISM is showing. Many western scribes and their followers are mocking Hong Kong people who are upset after a rather brutal prank or "an error" happened in South Korea, where a protest song was played in the place of the national anthem.
Is it okay for these reporters to have a laugh?…
THE STRUGGLE TO KEEP Hong Kong safe is not over, the city’s leader John Lee Ka-chiu said. “There are still underlying national security threats from different fronts,” he warned.
In response, the city is putting more resources into intelligence gathering, the Chief Executive told a conference. “We will step up efforts in gathering and…
THE PRESENT U.S. administration’s determination to stop the world selling vital semiconductors to China “is an act of economic warfare”, top Financial Times columnist Martin Wolfe wrote on Friday.
The move “is far more threatening to Beijing than anything Donald Trump did,” he added. “The aim is clearly to slow China’s economic development. That is…
Hong Kong's new leader John Lee showed himself determined to build on Hong Kong's many success stories in his maiden Policy Address, given yesterday. Below is a summary of the main points. Or scroll down for a link to a video summary of the story.
CHILDREN; GIVE THE crayons a break. Primary school kids…
HONG KONG IS arguably the world’s top university city, a new survey reveals today.
Five of the top 100 academic institutions on the planet are located in Hong Kong, according to an annual study published this week by Times Higher Education of London.
Hong Kong beat London and Paris for number of academic top performers…
I HAVE TO START BY saying that not every Chinese person has eaten snake-related dishes. In fact, I had never thought that snakes could be eaten until I read about it in a novel while I was in middle school. I was so astonished that I even re-checked the Chinese character “蛇” (“snake” in Chinese)…
HONG KONG HAS PROGRESSED significantly since its reunification with the Motherland. The past decade has seen abrupt changes in our country’s internal and external environment and Hong Kong has undergone ups and downs including unforgettably tumultuous times in 2014 and 2019.
Yet, thanks to the principle of “One Country, Two Systems”, and the bold leadership…
Hong Kong became host to an extraordinary Communist school in the 1940s The British asked Communists to work as the police in the New Territories A Hong Kong war hero got an MBE before being killed by a Taiwanese bomb
ONE OF THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY episodes in modern history was a “bromance” between British colonial…
SPACs are in the news this week, after Silicon Valley’s pioneer in the investment vehicle business said he would return US$1.5 billion to backers. But Hong Kong’s versions of the Special Purpose Acquisition Company have key differences, says SPAC specialist Jason Wong
THE U.S. ENTERED AN interest rate hike cycle this year, and capital markets…
Art galleries and museums are fine, but art should be done by creative young people and should be present in the public environment, says the super-creative Hong Kong artist. H.C. Lu reports
VISITORS WHO STEPPED into the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel in the US a few years ago got a surprise – there was a pair…
