AN EXHIBITION OF ARTIFACTS from the life of Madam Soong Ching-ling (宋慶齡), the wife of Dr Sun Yat-sen (孫中山), open in Hong Kong next week, with items put on display in the city for the first time.
A qipao (Chinese dress) she wore, historical photos with leaders, news clippings and other items will be on…
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A TRIO OF HONG KONG friends thought about the best way to heal Hong Kong as a community after the traumas of recent times and came up with a simple but transformative idea.
What if people just set aside politics and other concerns for a while and did something creative, which would be good for…
SURVIVING ZODIAC HEAD STATUES from a glorious imperial garden destroyed by British and French soldiers in the Opium War in 1860 are on show at City University of Hong Kong.
The Old Summer Palace, known as Yuanmingyuan (圓明園), was a huge area, covering more than 3.5 square kilometres of land in Beijing. Historians say it…
CHINESE ENGINEERS SET a new record for the fastest train in the world, and are eyeing their ultimate target—to create railway transport that’s faster than commercial aircraft.
The country’s next-generation high-speed train recently set a record of 453 kmh (281 mph) during a test run along a section of the railway from Fuqing to Qianzhou…
CATS AT THE FORBIDDEN CITY in Beijing have become celebrities. They now regularly appear in TV programs and on social media.
They also count as part of the historical tale of the complex.
In ancient times, emperors and other royal family members owned cats which they pampered, just like modern cat-lovers. In the Ming…
The Hong Kong authorities recently issued arrest warrants for eight individuals living offshore who are alleged to have breached the National Security Law. Canberra has swiftly jumped to express concern for the two fugitives who live in Australia. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that this rash response reflects, in part, a felt-need in…
CHINA CAME FROM nowhere to become a leader in cash-free purchasing, a top London professor said this week.
It is now on track to becoming the world's top country for cash-free transactions, said Kent Matthews, professor of banking and finance at Cardiff University.
In China, the proportion of the total amount of money in circulation…
MEET AN ACTUAL COMMUNIST PARTY MEMBER. When teacher Ye Lianping hit retirement age, he felt he was still able to contribute to society, but had been left behind by the world.
So he turned part of his home into a school and re-started work as a teacher, focusing on children “left behind” by society because…
INDIA HAS AN ECONOMY that is growing faster than China’s – six per cent versus four per cent - and it has a population that is expanding while that of its Asian neighbor is shrinking.
Put these two facts together, and the implication is that India will surpass China in any race to become the…
The daily Western presentation of Taiwan as a functionally independent nation on the verge of being “invaded” by China flies in the face of the actual facts, as specified by global agreements recognized and codified by people on both sides of the strait.
China’s governing constitutional instruments specify that the mainland and Taiwan are one…