June 4 candle lights will flicker
By Albert Ho Chun-yan – The participation of over 120,000 people in the candle light vigil last Saturday has touchingly impressed the whole world. After…
Politics/Policies
Lancome row exposes ugly side of ‘one country, two systems’
By Chris Yeung – On Thursday, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying was a busy man in Paris eagerly keen to convince his host, French Prime Minister…
Beijing has nothing to celebrate for a lower June 4 vigil turnout
By Chris Yeung – On its face, Beijing should feel happy with the drop of the turnout of the June 4 candle-light vigil at the…
A different June 4 in Hong Kong
By Chris Yeung – This time every year in the past 26 years, tens of thousands of Hong Kong people mourned the victims of the…
It’s the livelihood, stupid
By Chan King-cheung – With a staggering HK$860 billion fiscal reserves in its purse, the most direct way for the Hong Kong Government to pacify…
Vienna walks the walk for quality living
Ten minutes is all it takes to walk from Karlsplatz, Vienna’s main transport hub, to Hofburg Palace, the former imperial Hapsburg residence and one of…
Tainted water muddles accountability
By Chris Yeung – Flashed back to 2000, short piles found in home ownership scheme buildings had shocked and rocked the then Tung Chee-hwa administration….
Will Govt buy up public utilities for livelihood improvement?
By Chan King-cheung – In what is billed as “farewell dinner,” Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor had hosted banquets for friends frequently at her…
A chief executive ‘battle in the dark’ everyone can see
By Chris Yeung – Pundits say a “chief executive battle in the dark” (特首暗戰) has begun. Even if, a big if, the warfare under daylight…
Election watchdog makes HK laughing stock in social media rules
By Charles Mok – Something is wrong about the upcoming elections in Hong Kong in 2016 (Legislative Council election) and 2017 (Chief Executive election), before…