Category Archives: Blog

Now we’ve got Lionel Messi out of our system, there’s still time for some more Hong Kong is Back to Normal Good Stories before Chinese New Year… Agnes Chow, age 27 and currently studying in Canada, is officially wanted by … Continue reading →

For diverting everyone’s attention away from NatSec laws and trials?  Government people were groveling to the Argentine soccer star. A Standard editorial has more on the ‘PR disaster’… The Inter Miami-vs-Hong Kong match had been treated as a celebrity event … Continue reading →

The Sunbeam Theatre in North Point is famed for a gloriously garish foyer that delights passers-by and Cantonese opera performances that few under-70s find appealing. The site was on offer a few years back for HK$1.2 billion. Now prices have … Continue reading →

NatSec panic as ‘Liberate Hong Kong’ slogans are found on the sidewalk in Wong Tai Sin. Police conclude they were left over from 2019, and the paint covering them had worn off. Phew! A theatrical group is barred from holding … Continue reading →

Recovering from a traumatic trip to Macau. The time in the erstwhile enclave was great; the journeys there and back, fairly horrendous. For example… So just some quick late midweek links… Some bureaucrat trying to be ‘creative’ decrees a new … Continue reading →

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 →