Mainland-Hong Kong integration

27 Feb 2013

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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Letters to the Editor, January 28, 2013

28 Jan 2013

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...

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Build on strengths, says NPC deputy

7 Jan 2013

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...

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Hong Kong can benefit from changing mainland economy

7 Jan 2013

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...

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Stemming inundation of Hong Kong overrides perceived loss of judicial autonomy

31 Dec 2012

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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Letters to the Editor, December 3, 2012

3 Dec 2012

Air quality objectives are outdated

The government should implement new air quality standards as soon as possible.

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Opinion

Alex Lo

A dangerous demagogue in our midst

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Jake Van Der Kamp

Ferry subsidies to push rents up further

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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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Basic Law clear on integration

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...

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Shifting ground on Hong Kong's autonomy

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...

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Time to think of Hong Kong's role in the future

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.

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Basic Law clear about Hong Kong's status

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...

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Champions of HK autonomy should embrace full colonial history

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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