Peter Kammerer

7 Aug 2012

I surrender: I have reached overload, the point where my online, virtual life is taking up so much time that it is affecting what I do in the physical world.

11:07PM

Handout era

24 Jul 2012

A conversation with a young man while on my way to the MTR on Friday was troubling in every way. On finding out that I was a journalist, the man, in his late 20s, let loose his frustrations about...

10:09PM

Public trust

29 May 2012

The guilty feeling I have each time I walk into a public hospital for treatment was back the other week. My blood pressure had shot to unusually high levels and I needed to check it out.

4:05PM

Park life

15 May 2012

Life would seem to be sweet for the old couple next door. Their daughter moved them from the wilds of Ma On Shan to North Point to be closer to their grandchildren, giving them a luxuriously...

3:00PM

Letters

12 Mar 2012

A cashless society has its drawbacks

While I do agree with Peter Kammerer that cashless payments are more convenient (especially when change is involved), he does not mention the...

9:55AM

Father's lament

21 Feb 2012

My thoughts for months have been consumed with my younger son's future.

7:58AM

Opinion

Alex Lo

Chen Guangcheng misled by his new right-wing 'friends'

1:26AM

Tom Holland

The yuan hasn't overtaken the HK$ quite yet, Mr Chan

4:40AM

Clearer heads

Memories are the dramas of our minds, the bits of our past that are unforgettable because of particular action, suspense or sadness. The day a bar owner in Australia chased me from the pool room...

4:01AM

Still growing

My elder son has just turned 21, a milestone age among his classmates at university in Australia, but one that has no special meaning in Hong Kong, where he was born and schooled, or the...

3:13AM

Rap songs

The generation gap reared its ugly head at home the other day as I was checking on how my teenage son was getting on with his study for exams.

11:37PM

Caged shame

Zoos tend not to be an issue to get people steamed. My colleague expressed indifference when I gave him a mini-rant about the keeping of animals at the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens...

10:25PM

High stakes

My younger son has never been so stressed. Next week, he begins the last part of his secondary schooling, a series of examinations stretching into early next month that will determine which of the...

9:45PM

Empty promise

Reality ... What a concept. That is the title of an album by American comedian Robin Williams, but it also came to mind as I made a spur-of-the-moment visit to the new government headquarters in...

9:10PM