Category Archives: Blog

Spent yesterday morning getting my first proper physical in a decade at a place in Central. They must do dozens of people every day – a three-hour long conveyor belt of form-filling, examinations and tests, plus some waiting in between.  … Continue reading →

Lingua Sinica examines the links between pro-Beijing media outlets attacking the HK Journalists Association last week… Without evidence, and in remarks that seemed a clear public setup stemming from the Wen Wei Po question [at a press conference on a … Continue reading →

Desmond Shum tweet on Beijing’s tax clampdown on offshore wealth… Article 11 states that even someone who has obtained foreign nationality or permanent or long-term residence overseas may still be deemed a Chinese domiciled tax resident if his or her … Continue reading →

The Court of Appeal allows 11 of the HK47 – convicted of ‘conspiracy to commit subversion’ over the 2020 pan-dem primary elections – to go to the Court of Final Appeal… The defendants feature some of Hong Kong’s most prominent … Continue reading →

Lingnan University Students Union – founded in 1967 – decides to dissolve. The only student unions still active are at City U and HKUST, plus a couple of Chinese U’s colleges.  One of the few remaining prominent and critical civil-society … Continue reading →

The Hang Seng Index suffers a modest plunge as insurers, banks and property developers worry that Beijing’s new drive to tax decades of offshore income will dissuade wealthy Mainlanders from parking their money in Hong Kong. Some observers will wonder … Continue reading →

We don’t hear much about the Legislative Council these days. Although there are 90 of them, the all-patriots members are mostly low-profile. There’s the one who drove her car the wrong way down a street. And another who did something … Continue reading →

From Flying Chopstick on Substack, a long, academic-type piece, partly critiquing a starry-eyed guy called Perez who thinks China has invented a space-age new form of governance, but mainly examining how Hong Kong fits into China’s system of government, with … Continue reading →

HKFP reports criticism of the Hong Kong government’s clampdown on bookstores from a slightly unexpected source: a small conservative Christian group known mainly for its anti-gay views… The Society for Truth and Light’s secretary general Choi Chi-sum said in a … Continue reading →

The Economist tries to explain Hong Kong’s obsession with shutting down small bookstores… Evidently the officers in charge of the raid had not expected such a big haul, or they would have brought more bins. The last of it had … Continue reading →