Public Opinion

31 Dec 2012

Pictures showing the usually stiff and expressionless President Hu Jintao making simple gestures of compassion while visiting his home area last week have won praise among a mainland public...

5:37AM

Policy unit needs to do more with less

22 Nov 2012

There appears to be nothing wrong with a government trying to improve the way it sells its policies to its citizens. But recent steps taken by Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying's team have raised...

3:18AM

In China or US, government must hear the people

5 Nov 2012

Does China pick better leaders than the US? Well, probably - but that's missing the point.

2:32AM

Poor gauge of public mood to blame for national education retreat

15 Oct 2012

On October 19, 1812, the French army under Napoleon began its momentous retreat from Moscow, which was to spawn the famous orchestral work by Tchaikovsky.

12:56PM

In the absence of universal suffrage, public consultations play a vital role

8 Oct 2012

The government stalled release of details of the public consultation on national education in schools because of privacy concerns.

2:32AM

C.Y. Leung must serve two masters

21 Sep 2012

People believe what they want to believe. In the face of evidence to the contrary, they usually harden their stance.

2:40AM

Opinion

Howard Winn

Barry Cheung makes waves in Moscow

3:47AM

Alex Lo

A dangerous demagogue in our midst

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4:18AM

Voters 'more co-operative' with exit polls, says HKU's Robert Chung

Voters were more co-operative with exit pollsters in this month's Legislative Council election than they were in 2008, generating largely accurate results, a leading pollster said.

3:32AM

The echo chamber that is public opinion

"They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion." So wrote Thomas Hobbes, in Leviathan.

2:12AM

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HK-based journalists from mainland label national education 'brainwashing'

Hong Kong-based journalists drew on their own experience of education on the mainland yesterday to warn that national education lessons will become a form of brainwashing if implemented in the...

9:12PM

Lam says national lessons A must

The government is standing firm on the introduction of national education in primary school classrooms in September, despite a storm of controversy.

10:21PM

By-elections bill stokes public anger, poll finds

The city's level of anger has risen, according to the latest opinion poll conducted by the University of Hong Kong, fuelled by events such as the government's controversial proposal to scrap by-...

2:38PM

Public being bypassed on by-elections, poll chief says

The change in the way the government proposes to fill midterm vacancies in the Legislative Council without by-elections has swayed some people's opinions but still doesn't take account of the...

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