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My Take
Alex Lo
A dangerous demagogue in our midst
23 May 2013

Among democrats everywhere, you inevitably find a few demagogues. They are the most extreme, and reject any accommodation and compromise.
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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Jake's View
Jake Van Der Kamp
Ferry subsidies to push rents up further
23 May 2013

I am a former resident of Cheung Chau. We moved there in the early 1980s as a low-rent refuge from a bear market so severe that even some stockbrokers, as I was then, had trouble affording Mid-...
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.
4:27AM
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Lai See
Howard Winn
Art Basel brings out the beautiful people
23 May 2013

Art Basel Hong Kong, as the Hong Kong Art Fair is now known, opened its doors yesterday to 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.
4:43AM
Business, Comment, Insight & Opinion
Monitor
Tom Holland
Impact of Beijing's anti-sleaze campaign wildly exaggerated
23 May 2013

Over the past couple of months, the media have been full of articles about how Beijing's latest...
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.
4:27AM
Comment, Insight & Opinion
Column
Hu Shuli
Bureaucrats must not be allowed to hold back reform of approval process
23 May 2013

Reforming China's administrative approval system has become increasingly urgent; it is key to...
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.
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Business, Comment, Insight & Opinion
Monitor
Tom Holland
Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster
22 May 2013

American asset prices have been enjoying a ripsnorting rally lately. Over the last six months...
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.
4:45AM
Business, Comment, Insight & Opinion
Lai See
Howard Winn
China is like the EU; provinces are its member states
22 May 2013

Many business people come to Hong Kong hoping to crack the so-called China market, not...
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.
5:26AM
Comment, Insight & Opinion
My Take
Alex Lo
Only real reform can calm Hong Kong's political volcano
22 May 2013

A chubby, mild-mannered legal scholar seems to be disturbing the sleep of the high and mighty...
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.
5 comments
2:53AM
Comment, Insight & Opinion
Column
Frank Ching
Liaison Office chief must investigate relationship with former ICAC boss
22 May 2013

When the current head of the central government's liaison office, Zhang Xiaoming, arrived in...
Frank Ching opened The Wall Street Journal’s bureau in Beijing in 1979 when the U.S. and China established diplomatic relations. Before that, he was with The New York Times in New York for 10 years. After Beijing, he wrote the book Ancestors and later joined the Far Eastern Economic Review.
2 comments
2:53AM
Business, China Business, Comment, Blogs, Insight & Opinion
Monitor
Tom Holland
Worrying economic parallels between China and India
21 May 2013

China and India are very different countries with very different economies. But visiting his...
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.
4:13PM

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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...
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Today's Poll

What contributes the most to Hong Kong's low birth rate?
  • Economic pressures: 83%
  • Late marriages: 9%
  • Cultural factors: 8%
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  • Late marriages
  • Cultural factors

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Central issues of the Occupy Central movement

There are seven components of the "Occupy Central with Love and Peace" movement. They form an integral whole. To some, this is far too complex. Indeed, these concepts are not simple. However, we...
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Beijing's increasingly heavy-handed response to maintain stability
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It’s not stenography…and it’s not always nice
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Why living in Hong Kong as mainland Chinese is no piece of cake
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