Anti-mainland sentiments

26 Feb 2013

Jia Xuanning, a 24-year-old Beijing Film Academy and Chinese University graduate, won the Hong Kong Arts Development Council’s first ever Critic’s Prize with a scathing critique about 2012 film...

Anti-mainlander hate demeans Hongkongers

20 Feb 2013

It saddens me that we have become a city filled with hate. Everywhere I went this past week, there it was. The hate is stomach-turning, especially as the Lunar New Year is a time for us to...

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Don't bite the hand of tourism - shake it

6 Feb 2013

The mainland's mammoth Lunar New Year scramble is as much about going home for the festive season as having the opportunity to travel. A proportion of the 3.4 billion journeys that will be made...

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Outcry at mainland mother who let son defecate at Taiwan airport

30 Jan 2013

A photo of a mainland toddler defecating in public at an airport in Taiwan has sparked anger and criticism from internet users in Taiwan and China.

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Vigilantes tackle wrong target in crusade against formula hoarders

28 Jan 2013

About 20 members of the Hong Kong Autonomy Movement who rallied online gathered outside Mong Kok East MTR station in a bid to block people carrying cans of formula or boxes of other goods.

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Stemming inundation of Hong Kong overrides perceived loss of judicial autonomy

Something astonishing happened to me on Christmas Eve at Central MTR station at about lunchtime. I had to struggle to hear Cantonese. Most everyone in the packed station was speaking Putonghua.

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Foreign interference claims fuel a vicious circle

Are foreign forces interfering in Hong Kong? Several commentators in the pro-Beijing media, including an official in Beijing, have suggested in recent weeks that they are.

Hong Kong accepting too many mainland Chinese immigrants, survey finds

The city is accepting too many immigrants from the mainland, according to half of the Hongkongers polled in a survey released on Thursday.

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Lonely Planet gives word of caution about mainland-Hong Kong divide

A travel guide popular with tourists visiting Hong Kong advises its readers that differences between locals and mainlanders have become an issue to which they should pay close attention.

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Wake up to Hong Kong's gripes, NPC delegate tells Beijing

Growing anti-mainland sentiment in the city may be partly due to the failure of both the central and Hong Kong governments to tackle local concerns over cross-border integration in a timely way,...

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