Category Archives: Blog

HKFP on the rise in phone scams since real-name SIM cards became compulsory… The number of phone scams in Hong Kong has tripled since a real-name SIM card registration system was implemented in 2022, despite the government’s claim that it … Continue reading →

Here’s a weird one: two barristers accuse a judge and prosecutors – including a private lawyer acting for the prosecution – of colluding to drag out a jaywalking trial. The case should have lasted two days, but spanned 91 days … Continue reading →

‘Believe nothing until it’s officially denied.’ The CE insists all those LegCo members standing down… …have told their own reasons, such as family reasons, [the] wish to focus more on matters they care about, academic pursuits, or the desire to … Continue reading →

It seems quite a few sitting members are dropping out of the forthcoming LegCo election. Such a large number doesn’t look like a coincidence, and the word is that the authorities have told them to quit. They include those in … Continue reading →

Samuel Bickett on the trial of Anna Kwok’s father… He’s accused of “handling assets of an absconder”—a charge transparently designed to punish Anna, who lives abroad and has a bounty on her head from Hong Kong’s National Security Police for … Continue reading →

From HKFP, more on the court case in which ‘absconder’ Anna Kwok’s father is accused of dealing with funds linked to her. It seems Kwok Yin-sang took out insurance plans for Anna and her two siblings back in 1999. His … Continue reading →

If T-shirts can threaten national security, presumably movies can… A total of 50 films have been required to be edited, and 13 titles have not been approved for screening on national security grounds since Hong Kong amended the Film Censorship … Continue reading →

In Domino Theory, Mark Simon (ex-Apple Daily) gets polemical on Beijing’s problems with foreign (and domestic) women leaders… In recent decades, the CCP’s leadership and propaganda machine have unleashed misogyny against female leaders, from the Philippines’ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to … Continue reading →

The Standard on the delights of cramming (‘welcoming’) more tourists into an already jam-packed city… As Hong Kong welcomed over 600,000 visitors in the first three days of the National Day Golden Week, the city faced severe traffic congestion across … Continue reading →

What was the cost per kilometre of the high-speed rail to Shenzhen? HK$2 billion? I guess this is a bargain in comparison. Still, the government somehow spends HK$450,000 widening a short stretch of sidewalk in order to accommodate photo-taking Mainland … Continue reading →