A fresh row has broken out over the appointment of the new Secretary of the Cultural Bureau under the incoming CY Leung administration. It is widely feared that the new power-wielding official in charge of ample government resources could fashion himself a Goebbels, the king of patriotic propaganda...
Apart from the US Embassy sheltering blind dissident lawyer Chen Guangcheng in Beijing, the torch of the Statue of Liberty lights up other dark corners across the territory of China.
With Uncle Sam’s compliments, 24-hour McDonald’s restaurants in Mong Kok and TST have been offering free...
Chinese premier Wen Jiabao has surprised commentators by visiting the Auschwitz concentration camp on his recent trip to Poland. It must have been some kind of calculated political digression. Chinese leaders, while visiting the west, are normally interested in car manufacturing plants or computer...
Forget about Bo Guagua, the Chinese crown princeling lately turned into somewhat of an Oliver Twist figure following the political ouster of his powerful dad and the murder charge faced by his mum over the mysterious death of an alleged James Bond in China. Or if you are an Oxford alumnus, you have...
It looks odd that chief executive-elect CY Leung spent the first three days after his 1,200-electoral-member mini-ballot-box victory in frantic denial of the allegation that he is a member of the Chinese Communist Party.
Like the famous mischievously loaded question, “Have you stopped beating...
It is common knowledge that Hongkongers aren’t interested in anything that belongs to the past. Tell any business suit-wearing young metropolitan professional over a happy hour drink at a pub in Lan Kwai Fong that you enjoy the tap-dancing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and you will most...
The election is over, CY’s our new head
A prospect that fills some Hongkongers with dread
But whatever the outcome, we’ve been glad to witness
An election as hilarious and dramatic as this.
And the reason for the endless comedy gold
For this crazy campaign that never seemed to get old?...
Almost an hour away from the center of the city, Fo Tan is home to massive factory buildings that appear as though they were frozen in the 70s—which was when many of them were first built. And though in 2010 the government announced a policy that allows for the conversion of industrial...
It’s about time for our fake Chief Executive Election candidates to gear up the magical pretend-machines and act like they’re campaigning for your vote. Of course, they’re not—because you can’t vote—but we’ve decided to throw out a few slogan suggestions...
The pan-democrats suffered a serious blow at this year’s District Council elections. They only secured 83 out of 412 seats in the District Council, 40 percent fewer than the number of seats they won in 2007.
The role of district councilors in Hong Kong’s convoluted pol
