Category Archives: Blog

I remember a Sino-Japanese spat several decades ago, when then-Chief Secretary Anson Chan shrugged the whole thing off as nothing to do with Hong Kong, and referred to the focus of the dispute as the ‘Senkaku Islands’ – the Japanese … Continue reading →

Civil Service Secretary Ingrid Yeung urges everyone to vote. Slight twist: the video also features a guy echoing her message in Indonesian, complete with hand grenade. Different! A Domino Theory op-ed criticizes the pace of justice for Jimmy Lai, Chow … Continue reading →

A bookshop runs into trouble after holding what appears to be an informal Spanish class on its premises… The owner of a Hong Kong independent bookstore has been accused of managing an unregistered school after holding a Spanish class at … Continue reading →

The MTR says it will start services early on December 7 to encourage people to vote in that Sunday’s LegCo election. Will this boost the turnout meaningfully? Perhaps not. Maybe they could re-engineer the turnstiles so, instead of waving your … Continue reading →

A 68-year-old man is arrested for sharing allegedly ‘seditious’ posts on social media and… …inciting people not to vote in the upcoming “patriots only” Legislative Council (LegCo) elections The SCMP reports… Police said on Tuesday they first detected a suspicious … Continue reading →

The ICAC – founded in the 1970s to tackle corruption in the government – arrests three people in their 50s and 60s for sharing online posts allegedly urging a boycott of the LegCo election.  There is no law against boycotting … Continue reading →

Via HKFP, AP looks at how politics has ‘turned into pageantry’ in Hong Kong…. More than 100 primary school children under the age of 12 sat transfixed in the City Hall theatre on Tuesday as a woman wearing a teddy … Continue reading →

The government tries to stimulate interest in December’s LegCo election by organizing an outdoor variety show featuring Aaron Kwok, Alan Tam and others… The show will be held at AXA x Wonderland in the West Kowloon Cultural District at 8pm … Continue reading →

If it’s not the LegCo elections, it’s the National Games. A major border crossing will close for nine hours to make way for a marathon… Authorities said the Shenzhen Bay Port will be closed on Saturday morning to make way … Continue reading →

All 161 candidates in Hong Kong’s December LegCo election have passed the vetting procedure performed by the Candidate Eligibility Review Committee, part of the Chief Executive’s office… [Chief Secretary Eric] Chan said confirming the candidates’ eligibility early allowed them to … Continue reading →