Calls for a free, independent media fallen on deaf ears
By Chris Yeung — “If the media are silenced and journalists are muzzled, a key pillar of a functioning democracy is crushed. It means that…
Politics/Policies
Beijing intensifies attack on Paul Harris – and the Bar
By Chris Yeung — Stopped short of calling on the Bar Association to axe its chairman, China’s top office in Hong Kong has warned the…
Rule by coercive power not Hong Kong way
By Chris Yeung — Last Sunday (April 11) morning, Hong Kong people woke up to be told by Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung Kin-chung that the…
National security law targets small, but hits big
By Chris Yeung — Hong Kong is increasingly ruled by lies. The promise of “one country, two systems” has been proved to be damn lies….
Cultural Revolution-style attacks dim cultural hub vision
By Chris Yeung — First it was books written by pro-democracy activists including jailed young democrat Joshua Wong collected at public libraries. Then came pre-colonial…
Days of Civil Human Rights Front numbered
By Chris Yeung — Formed in the heyday of the 2003 July 1 march, the fate of the Civil Human Rights Front, an umbrella body…
A city of dreadful silence with opposition silenced
By Chris Yeung — Flashed back to the midnight of June 30, 1997, a group of democratic lawmakers stood at the balcony of the former…
Patriotism could make elections ugly
By Chris Yeung — Dubbed as an ultra-leftist, Shiu Sin-por, a close confidante of former chief executive Leung Chun-ying, is not known for liberal views…
‘Patriots’, not Hongkongers, to run Hong Kong
By Chris Yeung — With the pro-democracy camp already being torn into pieces, Beijing’s move to revamp the city’s election system to ensure “patriots ruling…
It’s ‘Western’ ruling Hong Kong, stupid!
By Chris Yeung — It was presumably coined by China’s late patriarch Deng Xiaoping, also known as the nation’s chief architect of reform, in the…