Some skeletons have been falling out of the archivist’s closet as China and Taiwan celebrate the centenary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen”s revolution. It has been revealed that the founding father of the first Republic of China, in 1911, had appealed to the Japanese for military and political...
published: Oct 6 2011 - 11:00pm
Novels like “Tropic of Cancer” and “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” displayed on shelves in Dymocks and Page One could face the fate of having to be wrapped up in black plastic covers, if anyone complains to the Obscene Articles Tribunal about “indecent content”...
published: Sep 28 2011 - 8:01pm
The die has been cast regarding the selection of the next Chief Executive, according to rumors emanating from authoritative sources among the pro-Beijing elite in Central over the past weekend. Henry Tang will soon be seated, blessed and anointed by Beijing on the made-in-China mini rubber throne...
published: Sep 21 2011 - 3:38pm
On a trip to Penang last weekend, I got a fresh whiff of Islamization. I squeezed into a hotel lift between an Australian couple and their three-year-old kid. Then an Arabic couple entered, with the lady clad fully in a black burqa, her dazzling gaze radiating an intimidating beam, like the...
published: Sep 15 2011 - 11:00pm
While it is common knowledge that the SAR chief executive has long become a man of straw heading a Vichy-like puppet regime under the increasingly defunct “One Country, Two Systems” formula, it will come as a great relief for most Hongkongers to discover that our territory is actually...
published: Sep 8 2011 - 11:00pm
When Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang arrived at the Grand Hyatt hotel for his official banquet on August 17, I was sitting by the window at the luxurious Steakhouse with a napkin waiting for my tomato salad appetizer. I had the good fortune of celebrating my birthday with a steak dinner at the...
published: Aug 31 2011 - 6:37pm
It’s a mind-boggling mystery why the University of Hong Kong decided to destroy its long-established reputation in its centenary year by placing the campus under martial law during Chinese vice-premier Li Keqiang’s visit.
Even more enigmatic is the decision to pay for a...
published: Aug 25 2011 - 3:19pm
It is not easy helping most Chinese get their heads around the fact that the riots in Britain, to their euphoria, are nothing like a Jasmine Revolution in Europe.
First, British Prime Minister David Cameron doesn’t have a secret Swiss bank account with a few billion pounds he keeps for...
published: Aug 17 2011 - 5:35pm
