Cage Homes : an art exhibit on Hong Kong's most expensive streets

Comment, Insight & Opinion, News, Hong Kong

Rankings belie the real purpose of universities: to educate

3 Oct 2013

Local university chiefs endlessly fret over their institutions' rankings by foreign media. Worse, they worry about becoming less competitive if rankings slip a notch or two relative to say,...

Bio

Alex Lo is a senior writer at the South China Morning Post. He writes editorials and the daily “My Take” column on page 2. He also edits the weekly science and technology page in Sunday Morning Post.

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Comment, Insight & Opinion

Column

Hu Shuli

Success of Shanghai free-trade zone can usher in next era of reform

3 Oct 2013

While we wait for details on the Chinese government's latest reform blueprint, Shanghai is already leading by example - by pushing for change through liberalisation.

Bio

Hu Shuli is editor-in-chief of Caixin Media Company, editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine Century Weekly, executive editor-in-chief of the monthly journal China Reform and dean of the School of Communication and Design at Sun Yat-sen University. She founded CAIJING magazine, a business and finance review, in 1998.

9:52PM

Comment, Insight & Opinion, News, Hong Kong

My Take

Alex Lo

Pricing domestic helpers out of reach good for Hong Kong in the long run

2 Oct 2013

If a miserly HK$90 rise will worsen Hong Kong's shortage of domestic helpers, then I say raise...

20 comments

3:36AM

Business, Comment, Insight & Opinion

Column

Stephen Vines

No open and shut case on wishing away government

2 Oct 2013

It is tempting, perhaps irresistibly so, to celebrate the government shutdown in the United...

Stephen Vines is a Hong Kong based writer and journalist. He has worked in Asia for The Guardian‚ The Daily Telegraph‚ and The Independent‚ and was a consultant editor for The Asia Times.

4:30AM

Comment, Insight & Opinion, News, Hong Kong

Column

Kelly Yang

Homework today is no child's play

2 Oct 2013

I recently asked a roomful of eight-year-olds what time they go to bed. I was shocked when some...

Kelly Yang is the founder of The Kelly Yang Project, an after-school writing program for children in Hong Kong. At KYP, she teaches creative writing, public speaking and critical reasoning. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard Law School. Follow Kelly on Twitter: @kellyyanghk

9 comments

2:33AM

Comment, Insight & Opinion, News, Hong Kong

My Take

Alex Lo

Level playing field will help the poor

1 Oct 2013

Poverty is not just about social welfare. Such a welfare view provides at best a narrow...

3 comments

1:43AM

Business, Comment, Insight & Opinion

Lai See

Howard Winn

Typhoon Usagi's message for Hong Kong's wind farms

1 Oct 2013

One of the effects of Typhoon Usagi, which received little attention, was its impact on the...

Howard Winn has been with the South China Morning Post for two and half years after previous stints as business editor and deputy editor of The Standard, and business editor of Asia Times. His writing has also been published in the Far Eastern Economic Review, the Wall Street Journal, and the International Herald Tribune. He writes the Lai See column which focuses on the lighter side of business.

12 comments

3:02AM

Business, Comment, Insight & Opinion

Monitor

Tom Holland

The 4.3tr yuan cost of financial openness

1 Oct 2013

This column has argued ad nauseam that anyone who expects China to open up to free flows of...

As the writer of the South China Morning Post’s Monitor column, Tom Holland attempts each day to make sense of the latest developments in business, finance and economic affairs in Hong Kong and mainland China.

3 comments

3:02AM

Business, Comment, Insight & Opinion

Column

Enoch Yiu

Fresh reminder of need to end muddle over HKEx roles

1 Oct 2013

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing's dual role as a company looking to maximise profits as well as...

Enoch Yiu is the chief reporter of business pages at the Post. She writes feature stories with a focus on regulatory issues, stock exchanges, the Securities and Futures Commission, accountancy, insurance, pension and other financial industry development issuse. She has a weekly column, White Collar, covering the latest issues in the professional industry and also hosts podcasts and video programs on SCMP.com. She is the author of two books.

3:02AM

Comment, Insight & Opinion

Column

Peter Kammerer

Stop giving trolls the cover of online anonymity

1 Oct 2013

There was a time when trawling through the comments section to stories in this publication and...

Peter Kammerer is a long-time columnist and commentator for the SCMP. He has received recognition for his writing at the Hong Kong news Awards, the annual Human Rights Press Awards and from the Society of Publishing in Asia. Before moving to Hong Kong in 1988, he worked on newspapers in his native Australia.

9 comments

10:51PM

Editor's Pick

Hong Kong cannot continue with its wasteful ways

With our three landfills reaching capacity in 2019, the waste management strategies that successive governments have raised, but failed to implement, can no longer be ignored. Each is...

3:04AM

Today's Poll

Should Hong Kong universities seek greater support from businesses to stay competitive in Asia?

Yes: 79%
No: 21%

2 Oct 2013

Total number of votes recorded: 266

Insight

National action holds key to global climate treaty

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released the most comprehensive study ever on global warming, prepared by more than 200 scientists over two years.

9:53PM

After US shutdown looms larger debt-ceiling fight

10:53PM

Let banyans line road to Hong Kong's Disneyland

10:53PM

China must follow its own path of urbanisation

9:40PM

Hong Kong must open the door to innovation

9:47PM

Talking points

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