Autonomy given away as Govt cuts ties with PTU
By Chris Yeung — In a shameless act of self-neutering, the Hong Kong Government announced yesterday (July 31) they will cut ties with the Professional…
Politics/Policies
With democrats out, CY Leung now Lam’s opposition
By Chris Yeung — With the democrats, labelled as the opposition, crushed, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor is facing a more formidable opponent in…
Unions next in line of political purge
By Chris Yeung — Dr Law Chi-kwong, formerly a Democrat, an academic and now labour and welfare minister, seems to be one of the least…
An election overkill kills democrats’ desire for seats
By Chris Yeung — Days before China’s top legislature, or National People’s Congress, was scheduled to rubber-stamp a set of amendments to Hong Kong’s electoral…
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…
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…
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…