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….
The dangerous game of Dec 10 turnout-boosting
By Chris Yeung — With the city’s pan-democrats being eliminated from the upcoming District Council election, the Government could already proclaim an early – and the…
Missing ‘history’ section in HK Yearbook
By Chris Yeung — In many aspects, Hong Kong is moving backwards while at the same time, intriguingly, tinkering with the record of history. The…
Lee left in cold as China-US ties warm
By Chris Yeung — Chief Executive John Lee put on a smiling face as he befriended citizens in a district visit on Wednesday (15/11) hours…
Sending Jimmy Lai case to mainland a bad idea
By Chris Yeung — Amid threats of sending national security defendants to mainland China for trial, Hong Kong’s security minister Chris Tang Ping-keung said last…
An abnormal District Council Ordinary Election
By Chris Yeung — Officially known as the 2023 District Council Ordinary Election, the December 10 poll is indeed anything but ordinary. In many aspects,…