A guessing game on the next chief executive – with no fun
By Chris Yeung — As the fifth Chief Executive of the Hong Kong SAR, the list of John Lee Ka-chiu’s self-proclaimed achievements sounds impressive. He…
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New law to define national security offences may worsen self-censorship
By Chris Yeung — Beijing and the Hong Kong government meant what they said time and again: the task of safeguarding national security will be…
Oddities marred June 4 anniversary
By Chris Yeung — Oddities were aplenty at the Victoria Park on the eve of and on June 4 as the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown marked…
A row over rehousing Tai Po fire victims brews
By Chris Yeung — The writing was not on the wall. Grievances of residents of the ill-fated Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po were written…
Civil service pay rise looks uncertain as fury over Tai Po fire lingers
By Chris Yeung — Praising “significant improvement” in public finance, Financial Secretary Paul Chan raised expectations of a pay rise for the city’s civil servants…
Early release of Jimmy Lai still a possibility
By Chris Yeung — An early release of media mogul Jimmy Lai, who was sentenced to 20 years for violating the national security law, remains…
One Hong Kong, two stories
May 11 By Chris Yeung — Breaking the Hong Kong government’s longstanding tradition of senior appointments, a righthand man of Chief Executive John Lee with…
Junius Ho’s budget no-vote unimportant, is it?
By Chris Yeung — Flashed back to mid-2020, a group of pan-democrats said they would veto the government budget as part of a game plan…
All losers in government buck-passing game
By Chris Yeung — For the first time since the end of the British rule in 1997, the top post of the Hong Kong SAR…
Ex-legislator given second-time punishment
By Chris Yeung — One year after serving a 50-month jail for being convicted for conspiring to subvert state power in a national security trial…