Hong Kong Law

Hong Kong's reputation as a neutral arbitration centre grows

20 Feb 2013

Figures from the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre show that in 2007, of the 448 arbitrations the centre handled, two in every five involved construction. By 2011, the number had dropped...

Hong Kong's legal profession has undeserved monopoly

20 Oct 2012

Hong Kong's two legal practitioners' guilds have each issued a press release in response to former justice minister Elsie Leung Oi-sie' s recent criticism of the city's legal profession. The press...

Public Eye

29 Aug 2012

Mainland visitor influx isn't just a question of money

Letters to the Editor, South China Morning Post, August 17, 2012

17 Aug 2012

Stop stalling on air quality objectives

As a party to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Hong Kong has an obligation to formulate and implement policies to...

One country?

30 Jul 2012

What exactly was discussed earlier this month when Beijing's top representative in Hong Kong, Wang Guangya , summoned the city's leading loyalists to a meeting in Shenzhen? All we know for sure is...

Opinion

Alex Lo

Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

Alice Wu

John Tsang's confused middle-class claim

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Article 23 not on agenda, Yuen insists

Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen Kwok-keung has again insisted he has no plan to introduce controversial national security legislation and says if Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying asked him to, he...

What the Presidents said

2002 5th anniversary Jiang Zemin's 'three hopes'

1 People of all circles in Hong Kong will do still a better job in adapting themselves to the new Hong Kong ... and become better...

Still a struggle for hearts and minds

The night is forever in my memory. It was June 30, midnight to be exact.

2047 is not all that far away

Uncertainty brings fear. It was true in the 1990s as the handover approached. And it is true now as the years eat into the 50-year transition period - already almost a third gone and the halfway...

SCMP DEBATE

Today's SCMP Debate is the last in a weekly series as part of our build-up to the 15th anniversary, on July 1, of the establishment of the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong.

No meddling?

In 10 days, Hong Kong will mark the 15th anniversary of the end of British colonial rule and its return to Chinese sovereignty. Many who thought Hong Kong's rights and freedoms would be curtailed...