State fiats trump private initiative in China’s 13th Five Year Plan
By Willy Lam Whenever President Xi Jinping talks about the economy, he likes to flag two concepts: “top-level design” and “innovation.” The Chinese strongman obviously…
Change of KMT candidate will not stop DPP landslide
By Mark O’Neill On October 17, the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) changed its candidate for the presidential election in January – but this will not stop…
Academic freedom, transparency and accountability
By Anson Chan – The 18th century Anglo-Irish philosopher, Edmund Burke, famously pronounced: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good…
Leung team fails on all front in TSA tests
By Chris Yeung Three thoughts from the Hong Kong government’s surprise announcement of a three-month-long review of the controversial Territory-wide System Assessment (TSA) and a…
Judicial review a double-edged sword
By Patrick Lau It may well be said that the term “judicial review” sprang from obscurity among Hong Kong people to wide recognition following two…
Political correctness takes toll on Hong Kong pre-1997 postboxes
By Dennis Kwok – Civic Party lawmaker Dennis Kwok has lamented political correctness is creeping into Hong Kong’s systems, as evidently manifested in a spate…
Zhang shots himself in his foot in Chief Executive status remarks
When China’s Number One man in Hong Kong, Zhang Xiaoming, spoke again, Hong Kong people listened, followed by boos from some. Many were left in…
Autonomy at stake in HKU council decision on Chan
By Chris Yeung The University of Hong Kong’s governing council has put a slap on its own face when it set its next meeting,…
CY Leung ridiculed for calls in 2013 for Hong Kong to learn from Tianjin
Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying would only have himself to blame when he has become an unlikely victim of the deadly explosions in Tianjin…
China footprint spreads rapidly in Britain
One day in mid-July, a developer put on the market more than 200 units of a building in the Canary Wharf district of London that…