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Lin Nguyen

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WITHDRAWN: As Hongkongers rally against Covid-19, the city is at a crossroads: greater unity or deeper divisions?

Hong Kong’s moment of crisis is exposing its true challenge: chronic job insecurity

An employee looks out from a half-shuttered store in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong last December. Photo: Bloomberg

Paul Chan’s big-spending budget is right for Hong Kong – this is our rainy day

A man wearing a mask walks past a television screen streaming Financial Secretary Paul Chan delivering the budget, in Causeway Bay. Photo: Dickson Lee

How can Hong Kong hope to be a smart city when the government can’t even distribute a HK$10,000 handout effectively?

Financial Secretary Paul Chan arrives at a press conference after delivering the 2020-21 budget at the government headquarters in Tamar, Admiralty, on February 26. Photo: K.Y. Cheng

Few tourists are seen at the Big Buddha in Ngong Ping, Lantau. 18FEB20 SCMP / Nora Tam

(left to right): Robot “Sophie”; Hong Kong Chief Executive, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor; and Philip Yin from the American Chamber of Commerce (Amcham), attend the AmCham Smart City Summit 2018, at the Hong Kong Exhibition and Convention Centre in Wan Chai. 27JUN18 SCMP / K. Y. Cheng

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Expresses the views, ideas and conclusions of the author. (Eg. Enough of Crazy Rich Asians, think of crazy poor Hongkongers.)


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