(Caption: The Jumbo Floating Restaurant started taking on water and sank in the South China Seas. Image above is an artist’s impression)
THE JUMBO FLOATING RESTAURANT sank into the waters of the South China Seas near the Xisha Islands on Saturday, causing an outpouring of affection for the grandiose old dame of Hong Kong’s tourism…
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Western press says textbooks are rewriting Hong Kong history, but the truth is they are simply giving both sides
Even the British admitted that Westerners were "occupying" Hong Kong in January 1841, when they arrived and planted their flag
Mao Zedong made it clear in 1949 that ALL unequal treaties were cancelled in full
Under…
Tabe Wong took a huge risk, but it paid off, and now he's an esports star
Esports is now a legitimate career, and even offers academic options
Hong Kong has the largest esports stadium in Asia, the HK$30 million Cyber Games Arena in Mong Kok
IT WAS EXAM DAY. Thousands of Hong Kong students checked…
THIS WRITER HAD a nostalgic lunch yesterday with Martin Lee Chu-ming, Liu Kinming and others to celebrate a new book by top Hong Kong photographer Liu Heung Shing, known as H.S.
H.S., who is now 70 years old, was born in Hong Kong, and educated in the United States but became a top photographer for…
DURING THE 1989 protests in Beijing, student Kong Qingdong came across two undergraduates using a mimeograph machine to makes copies of personal documents.
One of them looked up. “Kong, have you nabbed a passport yet?” he asked.
“What passport?”
“Feng Congde, Chai Ling—they’ve both got American passports.”
As he listened, Kong found himself…
THE MYTH OF THE “Tiananmen Square massacre” is arguably the most successful disinformation campaign of modern times, according to western and eastern sources—so much so that proud psychological warfare specialists recently used it to ADVERTISE their news manipulation skills. We’ll get to that below.
As everyone knows by now, there have always been two dramatically…
"Jik-hoi, mm-goi." That request - "Straight ahead, please" - is one of the few "taxi Cantonese" phrases most foreigners know. But writer Meno Monteir took the trouble to learn to speak the language and found that dialogues with taxi drivers were a good reminder to avoid the labelling processes that polarize us
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YURI GAGARIN, the first man in space, is believed to have said that exploration “is not the work of one man or even a group of men. It is a historical process that humanity carries out in accordance with the natural laws of human development.”
In terms of exploring the heavens, Chinese people might be…
WATCHING THE FLOCKS of black-faced spoonbills that frequent the drained gei wai; observing the skilled fisherman; seeing the ospreys plunging into the waters to hunt fish; and catching sight of the Eurasian otters dodging behind the bushes in the wetland: spending a day Mai Po wetlands is an exciting and profound experience.
It is extraordinary…