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1. Chinese investors' American dream

   Posted Oct 10th 2009, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... Human Migration Rong Xiaoqing When word was spreading this summer about Yung 'Benjamin' Yeung's plan to build car factories in the US, many questioned where on earth the fugitive Chinese car tycoon, known as Yang Rong on the mainland, could raise the money. After all, he had reportedly left his US$840 million fortune behind when he escaped to the US after being ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/694913/chinese-investors-american-dream
2. Guangzhou struggles with African influx

   Posted Aug 08th 2009, 12:00am by Ivan Zhai

   ... Human Migration Ivan Zhai Guangzhou has long dreamed of being considered an international city - but events last month at a downtown police station were not quite what leaders had in mind. Furious when they thought a Nigerian clothes trader had died, more than 200 Africans dragged the body to the station in Kuangquan district and started a siege. For four hours they vented ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/689226/guangzhou-struggles-african-influx
3. Comment - Insight & Opinion

   Migrants deserve their rights, too

   Posted Dec 18th 2012, 12:00am by ANDREW BRUCE

   ... Comment Insight & Opinion Migration International Migrants Day Humanity Andrew Bruce Andrew Bruce says migration can be a positive force for progress, when it is managed well Today is International Migrants Day, the day in the year when the spotlight falls on a phenomenon that is as old as humanity. If migration could be mapped in real time, it would show the world's surface ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1107110/migrants-deserve-their-rights-too
4. Guangdong rule urges residents to flush out foreigners who overstay

   Posted Mar 31st 2011, 12:00am by Mimi Lau

   ... Bodomo, of the University of Hong Kong's humanities department. 'They are turning almost every Guangzhou Chinese citizen or resident - including hotel staff, landlords, employers ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/742573/guangdong-rule-urges-residents-flush-out-foreigners-who-overstay
5. News - Hong Kong - HUMAN RIGHTS

   Human rights activists in refugees' 'March for Protection', urging reform

   Posted Oct 28th 2012, 12:00am by John Carney

   ... News Hong Kong Forced Migration Human Rights Refugees John Carney john.carney@scmp.com Human rights advocates will march this week to highlight ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1071421/human-rights-activists-refugees-march-protection-urging-reform
6. The big picture

   Posted Mar 20th 2011, 12:00am by Violet Law

   ... for the human cargo to reach Hong Kong's shores. The 40 refugees were among nearly a quarter of a million so-called boatpeople from North and South Vietnam who fled to Hong Kong, only ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/741386/big-picture
7. Travel to Japan just got easier

   Posted May 11th 2010, 12:00am by Mimi Lau

   ... Human Migration Visas Mimi Lau in Guangzhou Japan is opening its doors wider to mainland tourists by lowering the annual income requirement for individual visas from 250,000 yuan (HK$284,600) to 60,000 yuan or even less. The change takes effect on July 1. Citing government officials yesterday, the Kyodo news agency said the annual income requirement for individual Chinese ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/714010/travel-japan-just-got-easier
8. Fall in HK expats joining Chinese citizenship queue

   Posted Mar 30th 2010, 12:00am by Dennis Eng

   ... Human Migration Personal Identification Dennis Eng In 2001, the then Invest Hong Kong director general Mike Rowse made headlines when he became the first expatriate civil servant in Hong Kong to become a naturalised Chinese citizen. Lan Kwai Fong and Ocean Park chief Allan Zeman did the same in 2008. Both have spent about four decades living and working in Hong Kong. But now, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/710117/fall-hk-expats-joining-chinese-citizenship-queue
9. Green card loses allure as taxman takes bigger cut

   Posted Apr 06th 2010, 12:00am by Irene Jay Liu

   ... Human Migration Personal Identification Irene Jay Liu Once a symbol of security in uncertain times, the US passport has lost its appeal for an increasing number of people in Asia and across the globe, who are giving up their citizenship in record numbers. For those in Hong Kong, the combination of relative political stability, growing regional economic opportunity, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/710656/green-card-loses-allure-taxman-takes-bigger-cut
10. Obama's speech spelled a new era in American foreign policy

    Posted Nov 21st 2009, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

    ... into the unknown, braving hazardous terrain and horrendous weather in rescue missions. Whether you call this Chinese, American, or any other values, does not matter. The goodness in human nature ...

    http://www.scmp.com/article/698954/obamas-speech-spelled-new-era-american-foreign-policy

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