【2017-11-2】 From 1841 to the end of the last century, Hong Kong developed from a fishing community into an international center of finance, trade and shipping in its own right, a process that sped up especially since the 1950s. However, much of that period found the city very much dependent on the West for economic [...]
【2017-10-23】 Hong Kong-based media have shown great interest in the ongoing 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China but some of the “mainstream media” find themselves obsessing over various trivia instead of what is most important. One of the gossipy varieties is guessing high-level personnel changes of the CPC and another features speculation [...]
【2017-10-16】 Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor on Wednesday presented her maiden Policy Address and she named the preface “A New Beginning”. At the end of her presentation to the Legislative Council, Lam said she and her governing team would continue listening to what lawmakers and members of the public had to say about the [...]
【2017-10-11】 A number of major cities on the mainland have adopted “cooling” measures this year to help rein in runaway residential housing markets. In the past five years the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government has introduced similar measures of its own to curb soaring housing prices, including a special stamp duty designed to discourage [...]