Heritage Foundation

Letters to the Editor, March 9, 2013

9 Mar 2013

My father is a dementia patient who cannot recognise people or his surroundings. As we never let him hold any cash or an Octopus card, we have discovered a disturbing fact; Hong Kong's public...

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Letters to the Editor, January 21, 2013

21 Jan 2013

Top ranking a poisoned chalice

I refer to the report ("Populist policies 'threaten HK's reign as freest economy'", January 11).

The US organisation with the pompous title, the...

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Hong Kong again named world’s freest economy

10 Jan 2013

Hong Kong has topped the world in economic freedom for the 19th consecutive year, according to the Heritage Foundation’s index announced on Thursday.

But the conservative American think...

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Newspaperman

9 Oct 2011

Newspaperman
by Warren Phillips
Audible (audiobook)

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Lost opportunity

12 Jun 2007

Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher has said she regrets failing to persuade Beijing to extend the lease on Hong Kong. Would we be better off if the city had remained under British...

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Beer baron charged with drink-driving

17 Jul 2006

Beer baron Peter Coors will appear in court this week on a drink-drive charge.

He was driving home from a wedding reception when he ran a stop sign, was pulled over and failed a...

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Opinion

EU fails to adapt to borderless world

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Howard Winn

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

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Maggie - Her Fatal Legacy

by John Sergeant

Pan Books, $130

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Monitor

HERE IS MY suggestion to the Heritage Foundation. Scrap that complicated analysis of 50 different economic variables to rank all countries by economic freedom. You have just stumbled across the...

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Wealth's apologist

AS WITH MANY people who watched the events of September 11 unfold, publisher Steve Forbes was gripped by the audacious assault on the United States .

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Losses hardly a 'fortune'

You quote Michael Bloomberg (Business Post, December 1) as saying, 'Keep in mind the most successful attempt to sell news to the public is the Wall Street Journal Interactive edition . . . but...

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Government intervention lacking key human dimension

THE Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank, releases its annual Economic Freedom Index on Tuesday. This year's report should make some interesting reading.

The foundation wages...

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Martin Lee jets off for award

DEMOCRATIC Party chairman Martin Lee Chu-ming leaves for a three-day trip to Los Angeles today, where he will receive the Claremont Institute's annual Statemanship Award. Lady Thatcher received...

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