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People run along the Island Eastern Corridor in North Point during the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon in 2025, with Lion Rock in the background. Photo: Eugene Lee

Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | Hong Kong needs the people’s wisdom for its 5-year plan to succeed

The city can fuse market dynamism with strategic direction – but the key is support from the private sector and the public.

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Opinion | Why China’s warning over military blocs is finding listeners in Asia

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Opinion | China wants its provinces to compete, but not get in each other’s way

World Opinion

Macroscope | Australia’s interest rate rise signals growing hawkish stance in Asia

Reserve Bank of Australia is less an outlier than a harbinger of global monetary trends in the wake of war-induced supply shocks.

A pedestrian walks past a petrol station with fuel prices on display in Williamstown, Australia, on March 26. Photo: AFP
A pedestrian walks past a petrol station with fuel prices on display in Williamstown, Australia, on March 26. Photo: AFP

Hong Kong Opinion

Legal Tales | My first 3 minutes in Hong Kong’s court

A barrister looks back on how his first hearing taught him about the importance of being knowledgeable and precise, even in brief proceedings.

China Opinion

Opinion | The rise of China’s scientist-entrepreneurs

The ascent of a new class of entrepreneurs signals a shift in China’s growth model, from property-driven expansion towards innovation.

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Asia Opinion

Opinion | US allies in Asia are looking to build middle-power coalitions

Faced with the US’ unreliability and China’s ascent, countries such as the Philippines are creating new networks of partnerships.

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Illustration: Craig Stephens
Illustration: Craig Stephens

Asia Opinion

Opinion | As power flows through submarine cables, law of the sea must evolve

The global commons of the seabed is in effect being governed by private actors with the capital and tech to build and maintain cable systems.

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Asia Opinion

Opinion | Asia must unite to avert an Iran war food crisis

The energy and fertiliser shocks come amid crucial planting windows for Asia’s farmers, exposing the region’s dire dependencies.

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Asia Opinion

Opinion | The domestic dynamics driving Japan’s remilitarisation

Sanctions, diplomatic warnings and aggressive rhetoric create a perilous loop, reinforcing the very domestic tendencies China seeks to deter.

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China Opinion

Opinion | How China-Gulf ties can turn energy vulnerability into sustainability

Hormuz tensions are a reminder to start building a better, more sustainable energy order before the next crisis hits; Hong Kong can help.

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A man walks beneath solar panels at the Al Dhafra solar power project south of Abu Dhabi in 2023. Photo: AFP
A man walks beneath solar panels at the Al Dhafra solar power project south of Abu Dhabi in 2023. Photo: AFP

World Opinion

As I see it | Thanks to Trump and Netanyahu, everyone now wants to go nuclear

After waging a war on the pretext of stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons, the US and Israel have ignited a new arms race.

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China Opinion

Opinion | America builds AI, China uses it. That gap may decide the future

The US still leads in AI development but lags in large-scale deployment behind China, which is rapidly becoming the leader in implementation.

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Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | Hong Kong should study how Singapore awards infrastructure contracts

A system that rewards the lowest bidder encourages a race to the bottom, while rewarding bids close to the average promotes honest pricing.

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Workers are seen at a construction site in Mong Kok on March 24. Photo: Jelly Tse

China Opinion

Opinion | How US tech hegemony is locking out the Global South

The world deserves better than a monopoly that builds walls and hobbles development.

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Illustration: Craig Stephens
Illustration: Craig Stephens

China Opinion

Opinion | ‘Made in Europe’ law sets stage for an economic showdown with China

The proposed legislation is seen as discriminatory to China and could also hurt Chinese interests in non-EU European states.

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China Opinion

The View | Energy crisis showcases strengths of China’s data centre market

China’s relative resilience to the energy shock and its cheap and abundant electricity supply are an advantage in the AI race.

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Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | 10 ways Hong Kong schools can effectively promote mental health

Education should cultivate individuals who, even under pressure, can self-regulate and find hope without demanding perfection of themselves.

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Students of Tsung Tsin College smile on the first day of school in September 2, 2024. Photo: Elson Li
Students of Tsung Tsin College smile on the first day of school in September 2, 2024. Photo: Elson Li

Hong Kong Opinion

Opinion | Hong Kong’s civil service accountability system will end buck-passing mentality

From water scandals and a seat belt fiasco to the Tai Po tragedy, blaming the system can no longer be a blanket excuse for not doing the job.

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World Opinion

Opinion | Reopen Strait of Hormuz by reframing Iran’s tolls as reconstruction

The deeper issue is whether post-war reconstruction and security in the Gulf will be handled through negotiation or recurring coercion.

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Opinion

Opinion | US-Iran ceasefire can’t paper over fires in the Strait of Hormuz

The US blockade is war by another name and must end. Two other things must change for the Iran ceasefire to become genuine diplomacy.

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US forces patrol the Arabian Sea near the Touska on April 20 after firing upon the Iranian-flagged vessel that the United States accused of attempting to violate the US naval blockade of Iranian ports near the Strait of Hormuz. Photo: US Navy/TNS
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OPINION
Jane Lee

Opinion | Hong Kong needs the people’s wisdom for its 5-year plan to succeed

Jane Lee
Göktuğ Çalışkan

Opinion | Why China’s warning over military blocs is finding listeners in Asia

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Dominik Mierzejewski

Opinion | China wants its provinces to compete, but not get in each other’s way

Dominik Mierzejewski
Nicholas Spiro

Macroscope | Australia’s interest rate rise signals growing hawkish stance in Asia

Nicholas Spiro
Felix Tang

Legal Tales | My first 3 minutes in Hong Kong’s court

Felix Tang
Ningrong Liu

Opinion | The rise of China’s scientist-entrepreneurs

Ningrong Liu
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MULTIMEDIA
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HELP, WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE

HELP, WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE
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THEY WON’T EVEN LET US MOURN IN PEACE!

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Super stupid behaviour during a super typhoon

Super stupid behaviour during a super typhoon in Hong Kong
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IS THIS WORLD WAR III?

United States of Israel’s war on Iran endangers the whole world
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