Category Archives: Blog

In Lingua Sinica, Ryan Ho Kilpatrick looks at Sino United Publishing… Go book-shopping in Hong Kong and you may be surprised by the range of stores to choose from. Three local chains — JP Books (三聯書店), The Commercial Press (商務印書館), … Continue reading →

Chart from Joel Chan – the six bars show median monthly household income for 4Q 2019-2024. After a post-Covid recovery from HK$26,500 in 2020 to HK$30,000 in 2023, it has dropped 1.3% to HK$29,600 in 2024. Why? Maybe it reflects … Continue reading →

AP on the conviction of Jackie Chen… A social worker who tried to mediate during the height of the 2019 anti-government protests in Hong Kong was convicted of rioting Tuesday in the latest case that signaled the tough stance the … Continue reading →

Security Secretary Chris Tang lashes out at a Ming Pao reporter for asking why a recent trip to Thailand was not announced ahead of time. The answer to the question was perfectly reasonable… The security minister said the operation [to … Continue reading →

NatSec-era Hong Kong is becoming more like the Mainland in governance style and closer to the Mainland economically, just as China’s economy is entering a post-boom slowdown and the US is leading a backlash against Beijing’s over-production/over-exporting policies. Following Friday’s … Continue reading →

Missing an opportunity to stay silent, Security Secretary Chris Tang publicly blasts legal scholar Johannes Chan for an op-ed criticizing the conviction of Lam Cheuk-ting and others attacked by thugs at Yuen Long MTR station on July 21 2019… Tang … Continue reading →

Former Chief Executive CY Leung questions the effectiveness of Hong Kong’s talent-attracting visas… Chris Sun, the secretary for labour and welfare, published a post titled, “Debunking myths about Hong Kong’s talent admission schemes,” on the bureau’s Facebook page on Monday … Continue reading →

A court rejects an appeal against a conviction for ‘inciting blank or invalid votes’ in the 2021 legislative election… [Jacky So] argued the magistrate who handled his case in 2022 had made a mistake by ruling that the provision did … Continue reading →

Five new fleets of taxis totalling 3,500 vehicles will be coming onto the streets in the next few months. Apart from their nasty liveries (one fleet is day-glo pink) and silly names (eg Syncab), there’s nothing especially noteworthy about the … Continue reading →

HKFP interviews citizens who wonder why civil servants seem to be relatively unaffected by the government’s attempts to reduce its budget deficit. They also question the point of the cuts to older folks’ transport subsidies – and not without good … Continue reading →