Category Archives: Blog

The SCMP is like a luxury goods store: you often walk past it but hardly ever look inside. Deciding to have a rare sniff around Jack Ma’s organ, I find Mike Rowse bemoaning Hong Kong’s de facto curfews during bad … Continue reading →

The government announces that 100 candidates for the 2025 Election Committee Subsector by-elections have been screened and approved as suitably patriotic to take part in the September 7 exercise. Of the 100, 28 will take part in elections for 21 … Continue reading →

Courtesy of Joel Chan – a chart of rent hikes and cuts in different areas of Hong Kong… The ‘winner’ districts in the left-hand column are mixed – what you might call lower-middle to upper-middle class. They are mostly downtown … Continue reading →

Eye-catching headline from the Guardian – how a teenager in Leeds, England woke up to find that China had put a bounty on her head… Media outlets across east Asia were reporting that [Chloe] Cheung, who had just finished her … Continue reading →

Action-packed government video on the dangers of ‘space oil’. We learn that ‘etomidate’ indeed rhymes with ‘date’ (as in calendar), not as in the Japanese family name. The key message is ‘Don’t vape it or you’ll die like a zombie’. … Continue reading →

HKFP reports… A Taiwanese film has been axed from a film festival programme after it failed to meet requirements set by the Hong Kong government’s censorship requirements. The Hong Kong International Film Festival said in a Facebook post on Wednesday … Continue reading →

The 80th anniversary of the end of World War II will be marked around the world, in various ways. In Hong Kong the government will organize… …a series of events to commemorate the 80th anniversary of victory in the Chinese … Continue reading →

The Rope Skipping Association’s flag problems explained… The official design, compared with the one used in the award ceremonies at the 2025 World Jump Rope Championships over the weekend, has petals that taper off more prominently into a point. Slightly … Continue reading →

Even the film Ten Years didn’t foresee the fate of the guy who – by chance – was issued car registration plate US8964… On June 4, 2024, Anthony was driving out of Hong Kong Island for the third consecutive year. … Continue reading →

From AFP via HKFP – Hong Kong introduces new stablecoin regulations… Stablecoin excitement has gripped Hong Kong as the city prepares to launch a licensing system for the less volatile type of cryptocurrency, but authorities warn against overplaying its future … Continue reading →