Monthly Archives: September 2025

The SCMP reports on the latest obscure/offbeat attempt to rejuvenate Hong Kong’s economy… Hong Kong is seeking to establish a cross-border individual travel scheme for yachts, with discussions under way with Guangzhou counterparts to ease maritime travel for private vessels … Continue reading →

The US National Catholic Register has a piece on Cardinal Stephen Chow Sau-yan, Bishop of Hong Kong… “Beijing wants to keep religious freedom intact in Hong Kong, because Hong Kong is important for China,” the cardinal contended, according to a … Continue reading →

The number of registered voters falls again… The 2025 registers of electors, released on Thursday, showed a total of 4,138,992 people registered as voters in the city’s geographical constituencies – the only category of lawmakers open for the public to … Continue reading →

From HKFP, some pics from the typhoon, and some more (especially for fans of felled trees). And a clip via the Standard of people in Macau catching fish in flooded streets. On other matters, the government gives up… Hong Kong … Continue reading →

Who cares whether it’s Signal Number 1 or 3, or 8 or 10? HKFP explains them. The system dates from the era of sailing ships. As a mean editor who can trim 1,000 words to 300 with no problem, I … Continue reading →

The government announced a ‘Number 1 Standby’ (ie ‘nothing is happening’) signal just after noon yesterday, even though the typhoon was more than the usual 800 kilometres away. It then announced that it would put up the Number 3 by … Continue reading →

There’s nothing Hong Kong loves more than an excuse to panic-buy… Residents have begun to accumulate supplies in anticipation of the impending arrival of Super Typhoon Ragasa, while some retailers warned about potential price increases.  In the flood-prone area of … Continue reading →

Jessie Lau in Prospect on the 10th anniversary of the film Ten Years… Now banned in Hong Kong and Mainland China, Ten Years captured Hongkongers’ anxieties in 2015 over what their home may become by 2025, in a series of … Continue reading →

Chief Executive John Lee took just under three hours to deliver his policy address. He mentioned a few major initiatives – notably the ‘Northern Metropolis’ – that aren’t new. Some minor positive measures, including free high-tech prostheses for amputees, and … Continue reading →

Just time for a link for history types – an Asia Times article by Francesco Sisci comparing the impact of geography on political, military and philosophical development in ancient China and Rome. (Also, some wacky nationalistic Chinese ranting in the … Continue reading →