Surely, the costs of this invasion of visitors cannot be ignored, as it has resulted in a shortage of daily necessities. But the benefits cannot be underestimated either. Indeed, the recent gain...
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Any fair-minded person viewing China's nine-dash line, that skirts the entire area of sea outside the 12-nautical-mile maritime territory of the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, and Malaysia, would...
Hong Kong and the mainland must identify and make the most of each other's advantages, not just hail "general" integration, newly-elected local deputy to the National People's Congress Bunny Chan...
The economic relationship between Hong Kong and the mainland has advanced so much - and taken on so many new dimensions - that it's time to take another look at the way we assess the city's future...
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.
Air quality objectives are outdated
The government should implement new air quality standards as soon as possible.
The city is accepting too many immigrants from the mainland, according to half of the Hongkongers polled in a survey released on Thursday.
Allan Woodley is right about the importance of "sound judgment and a commitment to the spirit of 'one country, two systems'" ("Basic law clear about Hong Kong's status", November 12). But what is...
China unveiled its basic policies regarding Hong Kong in 1984 when the Sino-British Joint Declaration was initialled. Those policies, the Chinese government stressed, would remain unchanged for 50...
Hong Kong has a reputation for reinventing itself to its advantage, based on its evolution, between the 1960s and 1980s, from an industrial to financial centre.
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying says he is "working on the problem of integration with the mainland" ("Hong Kong chief executive urges people not to wave colonial flag", November 2).
He...
The Hong Kong City-State Autonomy Movement claims that displays of the Hong Kong British flag are not a call for a return to colonialism but, rather, "the defence of the lion and dragon and the...
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