Basking in the morning sun in a garden in Rangoon, two most charismatic ladies hold their west-meets-east summit. After a light-hearted exchange of skin care tips, their conversation continues.
Suu Kyi: I just noticed you must’ve visited China too often in recent years, Hillary. You’re...
published: Dec 15 2011 - 6:22pm
The most powerful woman in the west embraces the most charming lady in the east. After a jostling photo session, the two ladies sit down face-to-face for a quiet moment of historic talks as they have tea in the garden of the house where the lady from the east had been held under house arrest for...
published: Dec 9 2011 - 3:13pm
A letter written by a 16-year-old British burglar to his victim blaming him for failing to secure his home properly has caused some sensation on a website in the UK. “Dear victim,” the letter starts, with the common literary civility before revealing the semi-illiteracy of the burglar-...
published: Dec 2 2011 - 12:00am
President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have been busy in a series of strategic shark fence-mending trips to the Far East, calling for co-operation with Asia-Pacific countries including Australia, the Philippines and Vietnam against any possible aggression by the dragon up North. The...
published: Nov 25 2011 - 7:02pm
Father Franco Mella has an immaculate memory. We met last week at an interview hosted by Al Jazeera about Hong Kong’s mainland Chinese immigrants, and he reminded me accurately that 10 years had elapsed since we had last met, also at a forum with a pro-Beijing guy present.
I congratulated the...
published: Nov 18 2011 - 3:10pm
Hong Kong’s medical doctors remain united in opposition to opening the floodgates to more “foreign doctors,” as proposed by the Hospital Authority. Faced with an aging population, over-stretched medical resources and a brigade of pregnant women from the mainland on a birth-giving...
published: Nov 11 2011 - 12:00am
“They don’t want to rig elections, they only want to know the results in advance.” Though this famous quote by a former Hong Kong colonial official has stood the test of time for decades, we may be facing the first time in Chinese Communist history that an election with a selected...
published: Nov 3 2011 - 1:18pm
2011 really looks like the Year of the Rat. And indeed, it is a very bad year for this most discriminated against and hated under-species. Bin Laden came first, followed by Gaddafi and his sons, and the year is still tick-tocking to its end. Should the world expect the Syrians to claim their trophy...
published: Oct 27 2011 - 11:00pm
