Political correctness takes toll on Hong Kong pre-1997 postboxes
By Dennis Kwok – Civic Party lawmaker Dennis Kwok has lamented political correctness is creeping into Hong Kong’s systems, as evidently manifested in a spate…
Zhang shots himself in his foot in Chief Executive status remarks
When China’s Number One man in Hong Kong, Zhang Xiaoming, spoke again, Hong Kong people listened, followed by boos from some. Many were left in…
Autonomy at stake in HKU council decision on Chan
By Chris Yeung The University of Hong Kong’s governing council has put a slap on its own face when it set its next meeting,…
CY Leung ridiculed for calls in 2013 for Hong Kong to learn from Tianjin
Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying would only have himself to blame when he has become an unlikely victim of the deadly explosions in Tianjin…
China footprint spreads rapidly in Britain
One day in mid-July, a developer put on the market more than 200 units of a building in the Canary Wharf district of London that…
Xi consolidates power in PLA by promoting protégés to full generals
Just before China’s Army Day on August 1, President and Central Military Commission (CMC) Chairman Xi Jinping elevated ten senior People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officers…
Leung faces foes inside, outside
A chorus of calls against the re-election bid of Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying seems to have emerged recently as Chinese Communist Party leaders begin to…
Who’s on the driving seat of tram policy?
Do you know him? Sit Kwok-keung is a retired government town planner who runs a consultancy firm called Intellects and has single-handedly whipped up a…
Speculation still rife on Tsang’s sudden departure
Tsang Tak-sing, the former home affairs minister who was given the boot by Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, may have become yesterday’s man. The question of…
Xi seeks to prevent Tianjin disaster from overshadowing his ‘coronation ceremony’
Officially, the military parade at Tiananmen Square on September 3 marks the 70th anniversary of the “Victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against…