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SCMP Columnist

Alex Lo

Alex Lo is a senior writer at the South China Morning Post. He writes editorials and the daily “My Take” column on page 2.

Former legislator Frederick Fung Kin-kee. Photo: Winson Wong

Opinion

Pan-dems cannibalise one of their own

21 Sep 2018 - 10:13pm 8

If student activists want to advocate independence for the city, they should be free to form their own clubs, just don’t use public union resources. Photo: Dickson Lee

Opinion

It’s time to stop funding student unions

20 Sep 2018 - 10:44pm 13

Yau Wai-ching. Photo: David Wong

Opinion

Sign of the Times with a localist fantasist

19 Sep 2018 - 10:25pm 31

Chaos caused by Typhoon Mangkhut. Photo: Winson Wong

Opinion

Travel after Hong Kong typhoon a work in progress

18 Sep 2018 - 10:19pm 11

Former Hong Kong governor Chris Patten is shouting in an echo chamber, Alex Lo writes. Photo: Edward Wong

Opinion

Others cannot solve our own problems

18 Sep 2018 - 9:01am 16

The pregnant lawmaker has an opportunity to highlight the needs of Hong Kong’s working women. And carrying her baby into Legco to cast her vote on the maternity leave extension will make a great statement

Opinion

Eunice Yung’s chance to raise childcare awareness

17 Sep 2018 - 6:38am 2

The Foreign Correspondents’ Club occupies a very useful place in the local social hierarchy, regardless of whether it was right or not to have invited Andy Chan, the Hong Kong separatist, to give a luncheon speech. Photo: K. Y. Cheng

Opinion

Don’t be such a bad egg CY, just leave the FCC alone

14 Sep 2018 - 10:44pm 17

Faced with the prospect of shrinking supplies, leaks and less rain, it’s time we diversified and stopped hiding behind some of the cheapest bills in the world

Opinion

City must go with flow on the price of water

13 Sep 2018 - 10:26pm 2

Further misery for Hong Kong taxpayers after it is revealed they forked out HK$1.6 billion more to pay off subcontractors at troubled West Kowloon cultural project. Photo: Roy Issa

Opinion

Another cash nightmare at the museum

12 Sep 2018 - 10:38pm 5

The Hong Kong judiciary performs a tough and vital job in a highly politicised society. Photo: Nora Tam

Opinion

Agree or not, respect the decisions of judges

12 Sep 2018 - 2:40pm 9

Panama’s President Juan Carlos Varela. Photo: EPA-EFE

Opinion

Latin America needs carrots, not sticks

10 Sep 2018 - 10:49pm 3

A woman pushes a trolley full of cardboard in Causeway Bay. Photo: Fung Chang

Opinion

I have a dream of ending inequality

9 Sep 2018 - 10:40pm 7

Cheng Yiu-tong wants to encourage more Hong Kong people to live across the border by leasing land in Huizhou, Zhuhai and Zhongshan for public housing. Photo: Martin Williams

Opinion

Cross-border housing plan could work

7 Sep 2018 - 10:28pm 8

If Taiwan is fast losing allies, Tsai Ing-wen has only herself to blame. Photo: CNA

Asia

China bashing means it’s US election year

6 Sep 2018 - 11:07pm 9

The public was allegedly kept in the dark over ceremony handing over controversial port area at West Kowloon cross-border express terminal to mainland authorities. Photo: Sam Tsang

Opinion

Transport chief comes off rails at terminus

5 Sep 2018 - 10:32pm 8

Shenzhen has become China’s tech hub in the past 20 years. Photo: Reuters

Opinion

Being the richest mainland city would be nice

4 Sep 2018 - 10:20pm 30

A new United Nations report has just come out accusing “all sides” of having committed war crimes. In other words, Washington is actively helping its Middle East allies to commit war crimes. Photo: Reuters

Opinion

US hunt for war criminals should begin at home

4 Sep 2018 - 12:24am 37

There is too much division and distrust in society for Article 23 legislation to go forward at this time, not unless you want to plunge the city into a prolonged state of deep conflict

Opinion

No need to enact national security law now

2 Sep 2018 - 10:43pm 4

Given the Byzantine nature of Vatican politics, the knives are out for the Holy See as he tries to make changes to an old and entrenched institution

Opinion

What dissent from Hong Kong and US means for a liberalising Pope

2 Sep 2018 - 10:17am 3

Education University president Professor Stephen Cheung Yan-leung. Photo: Dickson Lee

Opinion

Nightmare lessons in how not to behave

31 Aug 2018 - 11:11pm 8

Not content with monopolising 170 hectares of land at Fanling for an exclusive course, an alliance of golfers now wants the government to build them a four-storey driving range at Kai Tak. Photo: Roy Issa

Opinion

Golfers want it all and more

30 Aug 2018 - 10:50pm 5

Joshua Wong (R), the party boss of Demosisto, claimed two members of his group were detained on the mainland and subjected to abuse and intimidation. Photo: Felix Wong

Opinion

Just another case of the boy who cried wolf

29 Aug 2018 - 10:19pm 23

Of 66,291 lifts in Hong Kong, about 80 per cent, or more than 53,000, lack modern safety devices. Photo: Felix Wong

Opinion

How to put those piles of money to good use

28 Aug 2018 - 10:10pm 6

For many young people, the political realities have been the dismal failures of the Occupy protests of 2014 and the Mong Kok riot/fishball revolution. Photo: SCMP

Opinion

Only political game in town attracts the young

27 Aug 2018 - 10:21pm 3

A dignified silence from the likes of Chris Patten, former Hong Kong Governor (above) and former chief executive Leung Chun-ying may save us from so much deafening noises. Photo: Edward Wong

Opinion

Just shut up and let history be the judge

26 Aug 2018 - 10:12pm 11

It may be a better movie than the underwhelming Billionaire Boys Club, but scratch beyond the surface and ignore the sugar-coating and Crazy Rich Asians is repulsive in its own way

Opinion

Are you crazy? Rich Asians vs Kevin Spacey is no morality tale

25 Aug 2018 - 7:25am 20

Philco Wong Nai-keung, who fell from grace over the construction scandal at the HK$97.1 billion Sha Tin-Central rail link, has himself offered to resign as president of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. Photo: Dickson Lee

Opinion

Criminal sanctions are the best deterrent

24 Aug 2018 - 11:52pm 2

The government-appointed Task Force on Land Supply has proposed 18 options for the public to consider, among which are reclamation outside the so-called East Lantau Metropolis. Photo: K. Y. Cheng

Opinion

Just forget any East Lantau mega project

23 Aug 2018 - 10:29pm 15

There are two fatal misdiagnoses in Hong Kong: the localist demand for independence and the fight for so-called genuine democracy. Photo: AFP

Opinion

Words better than bricks in hitting target

22 Aug 2018 - 10:34pm 1

Disqualified pro-independence lawmakers Yau Wai-ching (R) and Sixtus Baggio Leung Chung-hang owe Legco more than HK$1.8 million. Photo: Nora Tam

Opinion

Young activists are being led down same bleak path

21 Aug 2018 - 10:13pm 24

‘Crazy Rich Asians’ has been compared with ‘The Joy Luck Club’ from a quarter of a century ago, mostly because of its full Asian cast. Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures

Opinion

Crazy Asian wealth porn has its funny side

21 Aug 2018 - 4:49am 9

Those defending the decision by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club to invite secessionist Andy Chan Ho-tin to advocate Hong Kong independence have an unconditional view to the right of free speech. But the right to free speech is a matter of degree and gradation

Opinion

How much free speech can we afford?

19 Aug 2018 - 10:20pm 17

Hong Kong National Party boss Andy Chan offers the perfect excuse for Beijing to toughen its hardline stance on the city. Photo: Sam Tsang

Opinion

We pay the price of Andy Chan’s free speech

17 Aug 2018 - 11:00pm 21

Florida Senator Marco Rubio. Photo: Bloomberg

Opinion

Confucius Institutes fall victim to US politics

16 Aug 2018 - 10:32pm 28

Commenting in his own newspaper, Apple Daily, Jimmy Lai wrote that unless “the dynasty of Xi Jinping” collapses, Hong Kong is finished. Photo: K. Y. Cheng

Opinion

Yellow ribbon torn as infighting erupts

15 Aug 2018 - 10:31pm 2

Article by US academic Graham Allison highlights how 40 years of growth have eradicated extreme poverty in China. Photo: Reuters

Opinion

China must escape traps for all our sakes

14 Aug 2018 - 10:43pm 7

Hong Kong National Party boss Andy Chan Ho-tin is due to speak at the FCC on Tuesday. K. Y. Cheng

Opinion

Driven speechless by FCC media rumpus

13 Aug 2018 - 10:22pm 3

Protesters demonstrate against noisy singers at the Star Ferry Pier on Victoria Harbour in Tsim Sha Tsui. Photo: Felix Wong

Opinion

West Kowloon the perfect place for street performers

12 Aug 2018 - 11:03pm 3

Riyadh’s over-the-top reaction to Ottawa’s request that it free a women’s rights activist is a familiar one to countries that have challenged Beijing’s human rights record

Opinion

Saudi Arabia brings gun to knife fight with Canada. Déjà vu, China?

12 Aug 2018 - 10:30am 67

Liberal Party chief Tommy Cheung Yu-yan. Photo: Dickson Lee

Opinion

Paternity leave row is the mother of all catches

12 Aug 2018 - 10:56am 1

Hong Kong National Party chief Andy Chan Ho-tin. Photo: Jonathan Wong

Opinion

Cut the FCC some slack in speaker storm

9 Aug 2018 - 10:43pm 10

Hong Kong MTR still runs its trains on time and its facilities are among the cleanest and safest in the world, but scandals are taking their toll. Photo: Dickson Lee

Opinion

Corporate carnage costs MTR its reputation

8 Aug 2018 - 10:27pm 6

Apparently, the post-handover government of Tung Chee-hwa allowed the Americans to convert an old restricted land lease into a freehold lasting for 999 years from 1950, for just HK$44 million, in 1999. Photo: SCMP

Opinion

Tung Chee-hwa’s multibillion-dollar gift to the US

8 Aug 2018 - 2:08pm 8

University of Hong Kong’s governing council chairman Arthur Li Kwok-cheung. Photo: SCMP

Opinion

Reign of King Arthur may not yet be over

6 Aug 2018 - 10:16pm 3

Suddenly, Hong Kong National Party chief Andy Chan Ho-tin, who has mostly disappeared from media view, is treated like a celebrity – quite literally. Photo: Sam Tsang

Opinion

True purpose of National Party ban is to pave way for future crackdowns

5 Aug 2018 - 10:23pm 6

In interviews with about 300 parents, the HKU study found that seven in 10 wanted the option of whole-day kindergarten programmes for their three- to five-year-olds. Photo: SCMP

Opinion

Give parents and children a fairer deal

3 Aug 2018 - 10:25pm

Legco’s Public Accounts Committee warned in a report early this year that some charities were exploiting loopholes to claim tax-exemption status. Photo: SCMP

Opinion

Government too charitable to charities

2 Aug 2018 - 10:19pm 2