https://www.scmp.com/rss/323171/feed C. K. Yeung is a former associate vice-president of Hong Kong Baptist University and professor of practice at Chinese University of Hong Kong en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com C. K. Yeung C. K. Yeung Before humans invented law, human behaviour was governed by innate moral ethics. This is the starting point of all laws across the world. Theft is illegal, murder is a crime – these are universally accepted moral standards. However, the idea that same-sex couples should enjoy the same legal status as heterosexual marriages is not a universally accepted moral standard. So where should Hong Kong draw the line? This is not a matter for the executive, the legislature or the judiciary. It is a moral... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3319939/same-sex-partnerships-hong-kong-conscience-vote-would-set-good-precedent?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3319939/same-sex-partnerships-hong-kong-conscience-vote-would-set-good-precedent?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 31 Jul 2025 01:30:08 +0000 C. K. Yeung C. K. Yeung For decades, the flow of academic and scientific talent has been largely one way: East to West. China’s brightest minds packed their bags for the universities of Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge in pursuit of better teachers, better laboratories and a better future. This has changed. US and British universities are still magnets of global talent but are no longer unmatched. Chinese universities, once dismissed as rigid and third-tier, are now engines of scientific and technological... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3313034/hong-kong-must-reform-its-degree-offerings-attract-wests-brightest?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3313034/hong-kong-must-reform-its-degree-offerings-attract-wests-brightest?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:30:08 +0000 Hong Kong people need a second chance. Although the fire and fury on the street has subsided, the seething political hatred is lurking just below the surface, ready to erupt when conditions are right. The national security law and heightened police enforcement can only suppress the pent-up political anger, not defuse it. To restore long-term peace and harmony to the place we call home, we need a heart-and-mind solution, not just the long arm of the law. Such a solution does exist, and has proven... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3102642/national-security-law-wont-heal-hong-kong-people-need-second-chance?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3102642/national-security-law-wont-heal-hong-kong-people-need-second-chance?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 24 Sep 2020 01:15:18 +0000 China’s whole-nation mobilisation to fight the coronavirus outbreak is unprecedented. To Chinese mainlanders, it is epic. But there is a tidal wave of China bashing even harder to contain than the virus, for how do you fight against those who derive a twisted pleasure from seeing China’s pain? Among the first to gloat was US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who gleefully declared that he saw in the epidemic an opportunity to help accelerate the return of jobs to North America. As if these words... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3050478/china-bashing-detracts-countrys-epic-and-unprecedented-battle?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3050478/china-bashing-detracts-countrys-epic-and-unprecedented-battle?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 14 Feb 2020 22:15:12 +0000 The US government, in an ominous move last month, required the RT (formerly Russia Today) news network to register its American office as a “foreign agent”. Later in the same month, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a committee of the US Congress, proposed that all official Chinese media personnel working in America comply with the same requirement. Had Hong Kong ­required foreign media outlets to do the same, it would have been met with howls of protest and accusations of... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2125301/how-america-wrote-rule-book-foreign-agents?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2125301/how-america-wrote-rule-book-foreign-agents?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 22 Dec 2017 09:33:52 +0000 Education equality is the hallmark of a fair society. This past week, 24,000 Hong Kong secondary school graduates became qualified for university admission based on their exam results. Of these, only about 16,000 received subsidised university places, with the remaining 8,000 having to turn to self-financing institutes. Are these young people getting a fair deal? The cost of educating a student at the eight government-funded universities averages about HK$242,000 a year. The students who get... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2002769/hong-kong-failing-its-smart-young-people-its-unfair?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2002769/hong-kong-failing-its-smart-young-people-its-unfair?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 13 Aug 2016 01:32:25 +0000