Insight & Opinion

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

3 Mar 2013

If two different forecasts made by our statisticians over the space of just two years can barely get within half a million people of each other for the year 2039 and entirely ignore an external...

Bio

Jake van der Kamp is a native of the Netherlands, a Canadian citizen, and a longtime Hong Kong resident. He started as a South China Morning Post business reporter in 1978, soon made a career change to investment analyst and returned to the newspaper in 1998 as a financial columnist.

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Business, Comment, Insight & Opinion

Lai See

Howard Winn

HSBC suffers the Taibbi treatment in Rolling Stone

2 Mar 2013

Matt Taibbi, the man who famously described Goldman Sachs as "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity", has turned his attention to HSBC in the latest edition of Rolling Stone

Bio

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 Easter 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.

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Business, Comment, Insight & Opinion

Column

Shirley Yam

How tycoons' IPO 'losses' may hide profits at herd's expense

2 Mar 2013

Tycoons are supposed to be smart.

Comment, Insight & Opinion

My Take

Alex Lo

Piercing Tsang's 'middle class' delusion

2 Mar 2013

So John Tsang Chun-wah lives a frugal lifestyle, drinks tea and watches French movies.

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.

Business, Comment, Insight & Opinion

Lai See

Howard Winn

Ex-employee laughing all the way from the bank

1 Mar 2013

We heard an intriguing story recently that we are assured occurred at a well-known investment...

Business, Comment, Insight & Opinion

Monitor

Tom Holland

Danger budget working group is attempt to impose new taxes

1 Mar 2013

In his budget speech on Wednesday, Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah said he would set up...

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.

Comment, Insight & Opinion

My Take

Alex Lo

A free Liu Xiaobo will be less of a headache for Beijing

1 Mar 2013

Communists are supposed to be unsentimental realists who care only about outcomes and results....

Comment, Insight & Opinion

Column

Albert Cheng

Property development profits and bus fare rises do not go together

1 Mar 2013

KMB's deputy managing director, Evan Auyang, said that the government had not supplied land at...

Ir. Albert Cheng is the founder of Digital Broadcasting Corporation Hong Kong Limited, a current affairs commentator and columnist. He was formerly a direct elected Hong Kong SAR Legislative Councillor. Mr Cheng was voted by Time Magazine in 1997 as one of "the 25 most influential people in new Hong Kong" and selected by Business Week in 1998 as one of "the 50 stars of Asia".

Comment, Insight & Opinion

My Take

Alex Lo

Catholic Church's scandals no mere 'footnotes'

28 Feb 2013

Many people know Paul Kennedy as the author of the bestselling The Rise and Fall of the Great...

Business, Comment, Insight & Opinion

Monitor

Tom Holland

At last Tsang accepts that our fiscal policy needs an overhaul

28 Feb 2013

At least some of the criticism directed at John Tsang Chun-wah recently must have stung. In his...

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...

Today's Poll

Are stricter measures needed to curb the city's parallel traders?

Yes: 79%
No: 21%

2 Mar 2013

Insight

Wealth tax idea worthy of debate

A higher tax on the owners of Singapore's most expensive homes - the top 1 per cent - resonates here because it is aimed at closing a widening income gap, a problem we share. But it has prompted...

S Korea's economy must top Park Geun-hye's agenda

So, how well did John Tsang listen?

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Son of singer's gang rape arrest sparks debate on children of the privileged

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How they see it

A Good Week for … , March 3, 2013

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Who said it?

China's dream of rebirth

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Politics of debt stymies Italy