2022/04/22 |
YouTube Blocks Account of Hong Kong’s Sole Leadership Candidate
John Lee was among a group of 11 top Hong Kong and Chinese government officials sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury, including current Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam, for curtailing political freedoms under Beijing’s national security law.
2022/03/31 |
UK Withdraws Its Judges From Hong Kong’s Top Court
Britain said keeping its judges in Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal would “legitimize oppression” under a controversial security law in the former colony.
2021/08/17 |
How Did Chinese Propaganda Force Hong Kong’s Largest Teachers Union To Disband?
No evidence shows that the teachers’ union has violated the national security law, but the police says it will “definitely investigate” any wrongdoings if national security matters are involved.
2021/05/14 |
Hong Kong’s Public Broadcaster Is on Its Way To Become a Government Mouthpiece
Shows are being censored, journalists are being forced to resign, and even social media posts are being deleted.
2020/06/17 |
Rhetoric or Reality? Britain’s Hong Kong Passport Offer Angers China
Beijing has warned that the British offer of citizenship to Hongkongers would breach the 1997 Joint Declaration. Until recently, Britain agreed with that verdict. But China’s attempt to impose the new security law appears to have changed the calculation in London.
2020/04/28 |
‘A Stormy Petrel’: Hong Kong Governor John Pope Hennessy
P. Kevin MacKeown's biography 'A Stormy Petrel' (City University of Hong Kong, 2020) argues for John Pope Hennessy as a character full of contradictions, bridling against his historical circumstances but never quite transcending them.
2020/02/24 |
Hong Kong’s Two-Faced Identity: Prosperity and Panic
Hong Kong faces yet another challenge in the coronavirus after eight months of protests. The city is trying to retain its status as a global financial center while people struggle to secure basic goods.
2020/02/04 |
Authorities in Hong Kong Struggle to Win Trust Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
The Hong Kong government's refusal to close the border has set off a public panic. Is it overreaction – or justified?
2019/06/13 |
After Police Suppression of Occupation, What Next for Hong Kong?
Following a day and night of excessive police violence and teargassing demonstrators have taken pause: What will their next move be to resist the extradition law?
2019/06/12 |
Hong Kong Police React With Violence to Umbrella-Style Occupation
As demonstrators in Hong Kong flooded the streets for a peaceful protest Hong Kong sent in the riot police in an attempt to intimidate them and clear the streets using tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets.
2019/01/16 |
HONG KONG: Looking Back on a Rough 2018 for 'One Country, Two Systems'
2018 was a great year in Hong Kong for Xi Jinping and Beijing loyalists. For everyone else, not so much.
2018/10/30 |
OPINION: Girls in Hong Kong Will Get Free HPV Shots. What About Boys?
Hong Kong will vaccinate schoolgirls against HPV. It should vaccinate boys as well.
2018/10/19 |
OPINION: Hong Kongers Giving Up as Housing Breaks the Camel's Back
Hong Kongers are talking about emigrating as it becomes increasingly clear there is nothing 'special' about this administrative region of the PRC.
2018/08/15 |
HONG KONG: Independence Activist Andy Chan Defies Beijing with Press Club Talk
Beijing has blasted the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents' Club for allowing activist Andy Chan to speak but its advocates' reasoning casts a more worrying chill.
2017/11/07 |
Hong Kong’s Two-Tier Profit Tax Misses its SME Mark
In her first Policy Address, new Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam proposed a new two-tier profit tax system designed to ease the burden on small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). But only a small proportion of Hong Kong's businesses actually pay profit tax, and the likelihood is that a higher proportion of them are big businesses.
2017/10/18 |
The Enigma of New HK CEO Carrie Lam
New Hong Kong CEO Carrie Lam has proved a master of the art of "responding without answering", enabling her to glide smoothly from one crisis to the next and emerge as the only person Beijing was willing to entrust with the top job.
2017/03/30 |
CARTOON: HK Elections Show 'One Country, Two Systems' An Empty Promise?
'The Hong Kong system shows that what one country, two systems stipulates is fake democracy,' says a DPP legislator.
2017/03/30 |
Done Deal: How Hong Kong's New Leader Reached the Top
Real elections, the kind those fractious oppositionist elements are demanding, create nothing but trouble: social strife, polarization and worst of all uncertainty.