Article 23 on fast lane, for better or worse
Chris Yeung It was all smiles at the Legislative Council in Hong Kong on Friday last week (March 8) when the legislative process of Basic…
Xia’s words face the reality test
Chris Yeung Whether Hong Kong is over is anybody’s guess. Only time will tell. But if the jittery community is looking for hope and confidence…
Xia gives hope as Roach says HK is over
Chris Yeung It sounds purely coincidental. Ten days after Stephen Roach, former chair of Morgan Stanley Asia, lamented “Hong Kong is over” in an article…
HK journalists hit by bad news
By Chris Yeung Hong Kong journalists have found themselves the subject of bad news following the restart of the legislative process of Basic Law Article…
Government to play hardball in Article 23 battle
Chris Yeung An air of belligerence struck Hong Kong with the kick-off of the drafting of a law on Basic Law Article 23 drawing near…
Belated ugly show of HK drama awards ceremony
By Chris Yeung Seven months after the end of the annual Hong Kong Drama Awards ceremony last year, a belated post-ceremony show that saw the…
An inauspicious start of 2024
By Chris Yeung One needs no crystal ball to be able to foretell the fortune of Hong Kong in the year 2024. Against the backdrop…
2023: A new beginning or an end?
By Chris Yeung — The year 2023 is a year fraught with contradictions. To Beijing, it is a year of new beginnings – from chaos…
Wanted: Freedom from fear
By Chris Yeung — It was not until the 1990s that the concept of freedom from fear had caused disquiet in some quarters of the…
Voters protest by not casting a vote
By Chris Yeung Billed as an epoch-making election, the 2023 District Council election held in Hong Kong on Sunday (10/12) ended with a two-folded failure….