Civil servants’ oath-taking a shot in own feet
By Chris Yeung — To sign or not to sign. This is the question facing Hong Kong’s 180,000-strong civil servants who are given four weeks…
Battle over courts’ power just the beginning
By Chris Yeung — Hong Kong’s 2021 legal year kicked off on Monday with a new Chief Justice, the city’s third since the 1997 handover,…
Lam’s vow of connecting youth now a sad joke
By Chris Yeung — Let’s be honest. Forget about her vows of doing so, Hong Kong people did not take seriously the pledge by Chief…
2020 a year of loss
By Chris Yeung — This time last year, Hong Kong people said goodbye to 2019 with a heavy heart and mixed feelings. After months of…
A tale of two ‘brothers’ in one country
By Chris Yeung — In a show of humility and a sense of pragmatism, former Macau chief executive Edmund Ho had likened the former Portuguese-rule…
The naked truth of Carrie Lam’s leadership
By Chris Yeung — Against the background of the opposition force being crushed, an seemingly intensified publicity campaign against Chief Executive Carrie Lam for her…
A bad week for democrats, more to come
By Chris Yeung — To say the past week is a bad week for Hong Kong’s democratic movement and its future is an understatement. It…
Carrie Lam’s restart an end for Hong Kong
By Chris Yeung — Imbued with Beijing-refilled confidence, Chief Executive Carrie Lam has vowed to relaunch Hong Kong following months of socio-political turmoil, in which…
Ta Kung Pao dragged in war over judicial independence
By Chris Yeung — A looming battle over judicial independence in Hong Kong saw an interesting side-battle on Monday as the Bar Association demanded the…
HK Alliance for democratic China faces a ban
By Chris Yeung — The time may have come. Founded in the heyday of the 1989 Tiananmen democracy movement, the fate of a Hong Kong…