The inconvenient truth of ‘Mongkok riot’
By Chris Yeung – It has come as no surprise that the Hong Kong government has flatly and swiftly rejected calls for an independent inquiry…
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Simplified Chinese learning sparks complex row
By Chris Yeung – At a time when strain and suspicions have prevailed in mainland-Hong Kong relations, it is not surprising that the Education Bureau’s…
Bad time for renewed push for Article 23
By Chris Yeung – Despite accusations by Beijing against separatist groups for plotting the Mongkok riot, the chance of an early enactment of a national…
Mongkok riot a wake-up call
By Chris Yeung – Hong Kong people greeted the beginning of the Year of the Monkey with a heavy heart. Scenes of violence and ugly…
Thunderquake Plan: ideal and reality
By Chris Yeung – Having kept his head low after the abortive Occupy Central movement in late 2014, University of Hong Kong law professor Benny…
‘King Arthur’ wages war with student ‘rioters’
By Chris Yeung – Three points from the broadside launched by “King Arthur” Li Kwok-cheung, chairman of the University of Hong Kong Council, against student…
Salvos by top officials against pan-democrats may backfire
By Chris Yeung – China’s top representative in Hong Kong has waded into the intensifying tussle between the government and the pan-democratic opposition in the…
Leung on ‘heart-warming’ drive amid chilly weather
By Chris Yeung – The last weekend are billed as the coldest days in Hong Kong in 59 years. As frost chasers flocked to the…
Carrie Lam battles with opposition in next 17 months, then pack and go
By Chris Yeung – In a bid to quash speculation about her next move after her present term of office ends in July next year,…
Leung dims Hong Kong as Tsai lights up Taiwan
By Chris Yeung – The contrast could not be more ironical and sharper. In Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, who held back tears to tell her supporters…