SOME PEOPLE ARE saying that the “test the whole population” system that worked so well in China could not be implemented in a non-mainland city like Hong Kong, which leans towards Western individualism rather than Chinese cohesiveness.
That may not be true. The same Chinese “universal testing” program was tried in Macao, which has…
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A FORMER WORKER at a Chinese takeaway in the southern English city of Bristol has become a senior leader in China. Leung Chun-ying, who earned £10.50 (US$14) a week selling Chinese food, curry and chips, at a humble high street eatery is now vice chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a top governing…
NOW THAT THE DUST has settled, the money has been counted: and it’s a shocker. Facebook lost about US$250 billion in a single day last week, the biggest one-day drop of any company in the history of listed companies. That’s a quarter of a trillion US dollars.
The main culprit? A Chinese app called TikTok.…
MANY HONG KONG people have opted to go north for retirement. Currently, more than 500,000 Hongkongers, many of them elderly people, have already moved to the Mainland. They benefit from the SAR government’s special schemes for Guangdong and Fujian, which allow eligible seniors across the border to receive monthly welfare payments from Hong Kong.…
IF YOU LIVE IN Hong Kong, you’re officially banned from accessing TikTok, the world’s fastest growing social app.
But ever since the US branch of the company blocked Hongkongers
from accessing it, smart youngsters have been getting around the problem.
Keep reading and we’ll show you how to do it too. Or check out the…
Destabilization activities becoming more evident, book says
Mistakes made in Hong Kong are being repeated on larger scale
Countries can "only be liberal democracies or authoritarian dictatorships"
AMERICA’S OVERT AND COVERT actions to subvert other communities while claiming to spread liberal democracy are likely becoming apparent to people around the world, a new study…
A new regular feature, Friday Numbers, highlights data in Hong Kong and mainland China
TODAY IS THE first session of Legislative Council under the new electoral arrangements.
As the first in series of Friday Numbers, we walk you through important figures which you may not be aware of in other media.
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WHAT HEALTH HABIT DO Western screen stars Robert Downey, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Aniston have in common? All three love acupuncture and cupping to improve their well-being. These stars, constantly in the public eye, have important reasons to look happy and healthy.
Downey, who starred as Tony Stark in…
A dusty hole in the face of a rocky cliff near Dunhuang led to room after room of astonishing treasures: the Mogao Grottoes