Hong Kong Politics

4 Mar 2013

In a keynote speech to the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), outgoing chairman Jia Qinglin called on Hong Kong and Macau delegates to play a greater role in their special...

Henry Tang says all Hongkongers who love the country and city are patriots

4 Mar 2013

The newly elected member of Beijing's top advisory body said yesterday that anyone who cared about the country and Hong Kong's development could be viewed as loving the nation and the SAR -...

Veteran Maria Tam rules out Basic Law Committee role for Stephen Lam

4 Mar 2013

Former constitutional minister Stephen Lam Sui-lung will not replace Elsie Leung Oi-sie as deputy director of the Basic Law Committee as had been rumoured, veteran committee member Maria Tam Wai-...

Financial Secretary John Tsang defends his budget amid criticism

3 Mar 2013

He emphasised the 16 per cent increase in government spending over the next financial year, saying it was rare for a government anywhere to be lifting expenditure.

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Occupy Central plan amounts to tyranny of minority

1 Mar 2013

Unlike Occupy Wall Street - a "leaderless resistance movement" of the 99 per cent against the "greed and corruption of the one per cent", as it proclaims on its website - Occupy Central is more a...

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Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

Super ministries may not be the right answer for mainland China

Alex Lo

Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

George Chen

A house is not a home until it becomes affordable

Time for the ICAC to take stock

Experience shows that for an anti-corruption agency to succeed, it must be supported by strong laws, properly supervised and be able to discharge its duties without fear or favour. Hong Kong's...

Fast-track for Benny Tai's blockade for universal suffrage?

A controversial plan to occupy the roads in Central in demand of universal suffrage may be rehearsed on July 1, lawmaker Albert Chan Wai-yip said.

Give mainland parallel-goods traders border ban, NPC to urge CPPCC

Brave Chan Yung, a new National People's Congress delegate from the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong, said the proposal was one of 20 suggestions to be made at next...

MY TAKE

If you must curse, at least get it right

Legislators should not curse in public, especially not in English. If nothing else, they don't know how to do it properly. Take the case of Lawrence Ma Yan-kwok, who denounced pan-democratic...

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China's claim to greatness must rest on its ethics

China has the potential to be a force for tremendous good in the world. Already, it is using its considerable fiscal reserves to invest heavily in economic and transport infrastructure in Africa...

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CITY BEAT

Only time can tell what to make of this 'wicked' lot

In the annual ceremony at Sha Tin's Che Kung temple, Heung Yee Kuk chairman Lau Wong-fat drew a stick bearing the number 95. The message on the stick, loosely translated, read: "In a splendid...