Yearly Archives: 2024

From HKFP… The Hong Kong government has given new identification numbers to lamp posts that inadvertently referenced the date of the Tiananmen crackdown, with the numbers “8964” and “6489” erased in favour of new codes. Article includes a real, non-stock-photo, … Continue reading →

Lingua Sinica on the decline of TVB – which you may or may not see as an allegory of the whole of Hong Kong. …In the “golden decade” of Hong Kong pop culture in the 1980s — when a small … Continue reading →

Three pieces that assume Donald Trump really will erect serious barriers to Chinese exports. (In other words, any attempts to manipulate him will fail.) The irony is that it would ultimately be good for the people of China – and … Continue reading →

Participants in the Hong Kong Tycoon Demise Stakes have been losing money every year since 2020, when 98-year-old Stanley Ho died amid unseemly wives-and-kids bickering. Madam Kwok Kwong Siu-hing carries on as Sun Hung Kai matriarch at the age of … Continue reading →

HKFP op-ed on the incredibly slow pace at which the legal system is dealing with people arrested five years ago… According to the latest figures, of the 10,279 people arrested [following the 2019 protests], 2,974 had been or were being … Continue reading →

Following the success of the ‘pictures of babies in civil service offices’ idea, lawmakers come up with new exciting suggestions: some all-patriots are proposing that young people should be able to draw on their MPF funds for down payments on … Continue reading →

Would love to be able to fast-forward four years. Let’s imagine it’s 2028…  Suppose Donald Trump was totally serious about tax cuts for business and the rich, big tariffs on imports, ordering the Fed to cut interest rates, and mass-deportations … Continue reading →

Presidential candidate Kamala Harris is popular among many Asian-Americans. For example, she has long enjoyed support from Cantonese-speaking San Franciscans, who know her as ‘Ho Kam Lai’. But some feel differently. China Media Project analyzes content in simplified Chinese on … Continue reading →

A great moment in the history of all-patriots lawmakers as one proposes a new way to boost Hong Kong’s ultra-low birth rate… …Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions lawmaker [Bill Tang] suggested that government should promote the idea that “babies … Continue reading →

A gentle start to the week. From HKFP, an interesting look at how neighbourhood restaurants and customers are adapting to the new rules against plastic and polystyrene disposable items… [Customer] Lam, who was buying lunch at a “two-dish rice” shop … Continue reading →