Author Archives: biglychee

The number of Hongkongers visiting Japan reaches all-time highs: 2.7 million in 2024, up 17% from 2019, and 285,000 in December 2024, up 14% from December 2023.  Could it be that inbound tourism encourages the outbound variety? The more Mainlanders, … Continue reading →

NatSec police put pressure on family members of PORI deputy director and academic Chung Kim-wah… The wife and son of wanted former pollster Chung Kim-wah have been questioned by national security police, local media has reported, a day after Chung’s … Continue reading →

Robert Chung of PORI opinion polls is questioned by NatSec Police for ‘assisting an absconder’ – his former deputy Chung Kim-wah, who is in the UK and is one of the latest batch of people to be declared wanted for … Continue reading →

This is pretty much a restaurant-review-free-zone (apart from once, maybe), but a few comments on Tanya Chan’s Taipei private kitchen Red Cotton… As a pro-democracy politician, the former Civic Party lawmaker was last heard of in Hong Kong being hounded … Continue reading →

Hong Kong retail sales down 7.3% in November year-on-year, and 8.3% by volume/inflation-adjusted. Big falls in cars, electronics, Chinese medicine, furniture and many other consumer items, except supermarket goods. In volume terms, sales are around 30% lower than in 2015-19.  … Continue reading →

The COMAC C919 aircraft makes its first commercial scheduled flight into Hong Kong, receiving a rapturous reception from RTHK… The homegrown passenger jet, operated by China Eastern airlines and carrying around 160 passengers, took off from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport … Continue reading →

The government’s new tourism blueprint – looks a lot like all the existing banal initiatives bundled up into one document, plus something called ‘bleisure travel’. Eco-tourism, mega-events, East-meets-West culture, ‘coastal platforms’, pandas, Lantau, Lamma, hotels, spas, horse-racing, cruise tourism, and … Continue reading →

The government strips pro-democracy veteran Martin Lee of his ‘Justice of the Peace’ title. Insofar as JPs have serious duties (such as visiting prisons), surely they should all relinquish the office at a certain age, well before Lee’s 86 years. … Continue reading →

Of the six people added to the NatSec wanted list on Christmas Eve – with HK$1 million rewards going – one is 19 years old. Chloe Cheung’s photo used in the official publicity was taken when she was 11. She … Continue reading →

The Congressional-Executive Commission on China issues its annual report, putting Hong Kong together with Xinjiang and Tibet as a place where Beijing ‘most brutally’ violates human rights. HKFP says… “The façade of an alternative system of political governance that was … Continue reading →