Ming Pao and HK media face crisis
Chris Yeung — Chief Executive John Lee spoke highly of Louis Cha, kung fu novel guru and a founder of the Chinese-language Ming Pao at…
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The death of Hong Kong warning 2.0
By Chris Yeung — “Say Hello Hong Kong,” a Hong Kong Government promotional video featuring Chief Executive John Lee posted on Youtube one year ago,…
WSJ makes bad news by firing Cheng for HKJA role
By Chris Yeung — The Wall Street Journal hit the headlines for the worst reason. It became the subject of condemnation and ridicule after Selina…
Pandas inflated with political hopes
By Chris Yeung — Hong Kong is poised to create another economic miracle if the arrival of two giant pandas before October 1 breeds new…
HK people just audience in election year
Chris Yeung — 2024 is an election year around the globe. In January, Taiwan people made history by giving the Democratic Progressive Party, which Beijing…
Foreign media shrinks as HK seems a non-story
Chris Yeung — Twenty-seven years ago today (July 1, 1997), thousands of foreign journalists converged in Hong Kong to tell the story of the end…
Two years on, what is the beef?
Chris Yeung — Compared with previous administrations, the John Lee team has arguably been most aggressive when it comes to publicity, aka propaganda. But if…
Departure of UK judge dims top court
By Chris Yeung Flashed back to 2021, Jonathan Sumption, a retired British judge who sat on Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal (CFA) as a…
An unwanted Hong Kong spy story
May 27 Chris Yeung Amid deepening anxieties in Western countries over what they perceived as growing “China threat” at their homeland and in the globe,…
No mercy on social workers body shake-up
Chris Yeung Top Hong Kong government officials were full of promises before and after the enactment of the Article 23 legislation. They said its passage…