Author: Robert Carroll
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Hk Observer: Leading again. First crony capitalism now most narcissistic CEOs
In April, the Economist magazine placed Hong Kong at the top of the world rankings for crony capitalism. Crony capitalism is where the government and businesses ... -
Hk observer : Plus ça change?
How useful it would be to be able single out, among the many messages coming from China about Hong Kong’s political future, those which really count. ... -
Hk observer: Beginning the endgame
The protests here have probably changed the political future of Hong. While on the one hand as we have seen by the National People’s Congress Standing ... -
Hong Kong politics Ip to pan-democrats: Stop grandstanding and be pragmatic
Executive Councilor and New Party leader, Regina Ip, represents the pro-establishment views on democratic reform, namely, that China has spoken definitively on universal suffrage of the ... -
Interview with Audrey Eu Look at Macau: no striving, no democracy
The Civic Party Chairman – and for the moment, all pan-democrats – have rejected both the National People’s Congress Standing Committee’s narrow framework for political reform ... -
HK Observer: Not time to throw in the towel
Hong Kong is no stranger to massive street protests. The last was in 2003, when half a million people took to the streets to protest the ... -
HK Observer | Yes to dialogue and young hope
Finally genuine dialogue has been promised between protestors and the government. C.Y. Leung’s number two Carrie Lam Yuet-ngor is due to meet students for a series ... -
HK OBSERVER: Pandora’s Box
From the perspective of Beijing there seems to be no going back from the National People’s Congress Standing Committee’s recommendations for universal suffrage for the 2017 ... -
HK Observer |Rights are not given; they are fought for
How can the government expect people here to accept the fake findings of their consultations on political reform as true when 90% of responses came from ... -
HK Observer: ‘CNN International are commies, and the Brits are hopeless’
According to leaked emails allegedly written by Mark Simon, tycoon Jimmy Lai’s right-hand man, “CNN International are commies, and the Brits are hopeless”. Simon has not ... -
HK Observer: Rigged elections and rigged petitions
So has the recent ´referendum´ on methods of electing the Chief Executive by the pro-democratic reform movement, Occupy Central been recognized by Beijing? Yes, recognized it ... -
HK Observer: Doublethinking political reform
Anyone familiar with novelist George Orwell´s portrait of Stalinist Russia in “1984,” and its origins in “Animal Farm,” may see many similarities here as the political ...
