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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,...

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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.
Updated 12:54AM
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
2 Oct 2013

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

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.
3:36AM
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
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
2:33AM
1 Oct 2013

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

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.
1:43AM
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.
3:02AM
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.
3:02AM
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
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.  
10:51PM

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