Author Archives: biglychee

Joshua Wong is given 10 years for ‘conspiring to collude with foreign forces’. That charge came in July last year – five years after the alleged offences, and after five years in prison for inciting unlawful assembly and ‘conspiracy to … Continue reading →

New World’s disastrous 11 Skies project has now been taken over by the airport and bundled with a patch of adjacent sea (over which the airport apparently has jurisdiction) as ‘Skytopia’…  …a new tourism landmark offering leisure, entertainment, arts, and … Continue reading →

A Yuen Long district council member (and member of various United Front bodies) gets two and a half years in prison for sex with an underage girl… Sei Chun-hing was sentenced at the District Court on Monday after his conviction … Continue reading →

HKFP asks why the Northern Metropolis vision-plan switched from being a high-tech zone to a university hub. Simple answer: bureaucrats are desperate to identify new economic roles for Hong Kong, but need to find ones in which the city has … Continue reading →

The Diplomat looks at the powerlessness of Hong Kong citizens as the government decides how to respond to the Wang Fuk Court fire investigation… Shortly after the fire, student Miles Kwan was detained by police after distributing material demanding an … Continue reading →

The HK government releases the report on the Wang Fuk Court fire. Some quite interesting details about the way companies colluded in bidding. But of course everyone knew that was going on. Only after 163 people die do officials decide … Continue reading →

HKFP reports that Legislative Council members are getting a pay hike. Not a big one, at 1.6%. But it brings their basic pay to HK$110,000 a month. (They also get various allowances, notably one that covers the cost of maintaining … Continue reading →

Patrick Poon in Cha Journal compares three women to one another in less than 1,000 words… Few would think to place the British writer Virginia Woolf, the Chinese writer Eileen Chang, and Chow Hang-tung, the Hong Kong barrister and Vice-Chairperson … Continue reading →

The UK issues its latest six-monthly report on Hong Kong.  The Hong Kong authorities seek to dismiss it as worthless and irrelevant, yet lavish a sizable press statement on it… The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) … Continue reading →

How do you be patriotic and boost the tourism sector at the same time? China Media Project adds ‘Red Tourism’ to its dictionary. While it has a clear ideological function, encouraging leisure travel to remote spots on the Long March … Continue reading →