Author Archives: biglychee

Article 23 is here. A four-week public consultation, versus three months last time. HKFP’s report. The Guardian’s. The whole paper.  Freaky stuff. The phrase ‘soft resistance’ appears once (page 17)… (d) Promoting messages endangering national security: The forces seeking to … Continue reading →

…but if you must. David Webb on the government’s decision not to release the findings of its Task Force on Enhancing Stock Market Liquidity… …we awaited [the task force members’] report with keen interest. Would they, for example, recognise that … Continue reading →

Some pointed HKFP items. An op-ed on the ill-fated waste-charging scheme, and another on the government’s plans to raise hospital outpatient fees to reduce demand… If money is a problem, though, the government could reconsider the arrangement under which Accident … Continue reading →

The HK Journalists Association (a non-profit organization) gets hit for profits tax of HK$400,000 for 2017-18… The HKJA has increasingly been a target of government officials and pro-Beijing media outlets in recent years. State-backed Wen Wei Po in 2021 labelled … Continue reading →

Prosecution witness in Jimmy Lai trial… Former media tycoon Jimmy Lai sought to paint China in a negative light in Apple Daily’s English edition so the United States would take hostile actions against Beijing, an ex-senior executive of the now-defunct … Continue reading →

HKFP turns pitches that got nowhere into a news item with maybe a dash of ‘soft resistance’ –  the challenges involved in telling good Hong Kong stories. Even the sewage works rejected a request for a photo feature. Interesting to … Continue reading →

…the Hang Seng Index is below 15,000. The Law Society finds that some of its members engaged in professional misconduct owing to links with the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund. The Bar Association, on the other hand, clears its members accused … Continue reading →

The SCMP asks the seemingly age-old question: what is ‘soft resistance’? Scholars reply that… …even though government officials might find it necessary to hit out at anti-China and anti-Hong Kong forces, they should use the term sparingly lest they stifle … Continue reading →

At the Jimmy Lai trial, the court hears more about Apple Daily being biased.  The Hong Kong Chief Executive tells the Hong Kong Federation of Journalists that their job is to ‘tell good Hong Kong stories’… Lee accused Western politicians … Continue reading →

Bloomberg op-ed on Hong Kong’s fiscal challenges… Stacked against these two ambitious endeavors [Lantau Tomorrow and the Northern Metropolis], all fiscal savings from the past will evaporate. In fact, one might as well pretend that Hong Kong has no fiscal … Continue reading →