Tag: Hk Observer
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HK Observer | A pan-quagmire
State leader Zhang Dejiang’s visit here is about Hong Kong’s finance and acumen to revive the Silk Road and reaching out to the community – both ... -
HK Observer | Panama plague. Who’s losing?
The Panama papers, a la Wikileaks and Snowden bombshells, are not only embarrassing the powerful the world over but highlight the injustice and the rot that ... -
HK Observer | Don’t shoot the messenger
“Did you watch [the film] ‘Ten Years?’” “No… If I ever want low budget Dystopian Visions I watch Government announcements” That was how SCMP cartoonist Harry’s ... -
HK Observer | HKIFF, Art Basel, and Rugby Sevens: connecting to the world
Unless it’s making rare headlines or in financial news, Hong Kong isn’t usually on the international radar but from February to April it’s been one major ... -
HK Observer | Appeasement – ‘quelle surprise’
Unexpectedly it seems that a lighter touch by Beijing towards Hong Kong has arrived even despite calls for independence! The great taboo subject raised here and ... -
HK Observer | China needs to woo youth
Alienated people can become reckless, but addressing their grievances may win them over. Cue pro-Hong Kong localists and their results in the recent LegCo bi-election and ... -
HK Observer | Roots of riot
The number of riots in Hong Kong over the last 50 years could be counted on one hand. A thorough examination of the causes of the ... -
HK Observer | Forget transparency; silence is golden
The Legislative Council Finance committee looks set to approve the additional funding needed for the world’s most expensive high-speed rail without waiting for the council’s public ... -
HK Observer | F-words for bookseller’s story: fake and framed
Let’s use an f-word: “fake.” And another? How about “framed.” Fake is how the edited, inconsistent confession of publisher Gui Minhai appears to his daughter and ... -
HK Observer | Fairy tales about missing booksellers
It’d be hard to find anyone in Hong Kong who honestly believes that the five missing booksellers were not blackmailed, kidnapped or perhaps ‘honey trapped’; set ... -
HK Observer | Vive la difference
This month we have had a deluge of reactions and counter-reactions about Beijing’s liaison office director Zhang Xiaoming’s remarks about separation of powers; that Hong Kong ... -
Hk Observer | Taxis rule. HK’s uber-free market to be Uber-free?
On the one hand, we have a high-tech startup officially encouraged and supported by the government body that has been set up to boost investment in ... -
HK Observer | Change involves work
Diversifying the economy is an issue which has long been pursued by local economists and Beijing alike. While traditional pillars of the economy such as trading ... -
HK Observer | None of their business?
With many students turning away from the city’s two big annual marches this year — the June 4 vigil to mark the anniversary of Beijing’s Tiananmen ... -
HK Observer | Embers from the fire
The long road to the Basic Law’s objective of universal suffrage has just got a lot longer. Now that the Legislative Council (LegCo) has voted down ... -
HK Observer | Stalemate
The present stalemate over political reform has been long coming. Tiananmen Square in 1989 was probably the most important turning point. Others were the failure in ... -
HK Observer: Punishing the old and poor
When a 73-year-old Hong Kong man was locked up for using a fake identity card, which he did in order to work beyond the retirement age ... -
HK Observer: Asia’s World city, Asia TV and the Singapore factor
The Hong Kong International Film Festival is one of the few remarkable cultural events in the calendar here, in terms of a solid declaration that we ... -
HK Observer: Basel dazzle
Regardless of widespread pessimism about the future of the core aspects of the local economy, there is no doubt that the vibrant health of the territory ... -
HK OBSERVER: From the ivory tower
Considering he’s one of the highest paid officials in the world, you would think he could spell his job title correctly. Who? Our gaffe-prone financial (sic)secretary ... -
HK Observer: Occupy Fallout
Following the Occupy fallout, Hong Kong has recently been declared as a core security interest for China by a senior PLA official. We can surely expect ... -
HK Observer: Reality Checks
How will Hong Kong continue to be governed, given the great social impasses revealed during the Occupy Movement? On the one hand, there are those seeking ... -
Hk Observer: The Joint Declaration thirty years on
The Joint Declaration, the Sino-British treaty for post-1997 Hong Kong, signed thirty years ago, tomorrow, was intended as a guarantee to maintain the prosperity and freedoms ...
