Pandas inflated with political hopes
By Chris Yeung — Hong Kong is poised to create another economic miracle if the arrival of two giant pandas before October 1 breeds new…
HK people just audience in election year
Chris Yeung — 2024 is an election year around the globe. In January, Taiwan people made history by giving the Democratic Progressive Party, which Beijing…
Foreign media shrinks as HK seems a non-story
Chris Yeung — Twenty-seven years ago today (July 1, 1997), thousands of foreign journalists converged in Hong Kong to tell the story of the end…
Two years on, what is the beef?
Chris Yeung — Compared with previous administrations, the John Lee team has arguably been most aggressive when it comes to publicity, aka propaganda. But if…
Departure of UK judge dims top court
By Chris Yeung Flashed back to 2021, Jonathan Sumption, a retired British judge who sat on Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal (CFA) as a…
A subversion case with no winners, only sadness
Chris Yeung What if the trial of a subversion case involving an unofficial Legislative Council “primary” in 2020 was conducted with a jury, instead of…
An unwanted Hong Kong spy story
May 27 Chris Yeung Amid deepening anxieties in Western countries over what they perceived as growing “China threat” at their homeland and in the globe,…
No mercy on social workers body shake-up
Chris Yeung Top Hong Kong government officials were full of promises before and after the enactment of the Article 23 legislation. They said its passage…
WSJ finds Singapore, not HK, its Asia home
Chris Yeung Amid assurances by a top Hong Kong legal official Andrew Lam that sharp criticism by the media against the Government will still be…
The June 4 vigil sight turns ugly
Chris Yeung This year marks the 35th anniversary of the crackdown of pro-democracy protesters and civilians at and around Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June…