https://www.scmp.com/rss/323727/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Many of Hong Kong’s oldest temples, built in the 17th and 18th centuries, are consecrated in the name of Hau Wong. It is the honorary title bestowed upon Yang Liangjie, a general who defended the last emperor of the Song dynasty until his, and the dynasty’s, dying breath in 1279, not far from what is now Kowloon City. No one remembers that the Song dynasty made its last stand in Hong Kong. Because there is one thing the British and Chinese have both always got wrong: the story of Hong Kong does... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2103449/hong-kong-people-dont-need-any-history-lessons-mainland?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2103449/hong-kong-people-dont-need-any-history-lessons-mainland?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 22 Jul 2017 03:32:12 +0000 What do you believe in? If you believe in a modern government in which the separation of legislative, judicial, and executive power is guaranteed, then you should have been born in Changchun on December 28, 1955. If you believe government should be responsible to taxpayers, then you should have gone down with your parents to the Inner Mongolian countryside during the Cultural Revolution. If you believe the rule of law must be above the interests of any particular political party and judges must... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2102618/charter-08-was-more-document-liu-xiaobo-it-was-his-whole?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2102618/charter-08-was-more-document-liu-xiaobo-it-was-his-whole?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 14 Jul 2017 03:33:36 +0000 Dear Carrie, congratulations on your selection as the next chief executive. I am one of the millions of Hongkongers who had no say in your ­selection, but who you will now represent on the world stage and, more importantly, in the Great Hall of the People. Whether we like it or not – and most of us do not – you are now the face of Hong Kong. From the moment President Xi Jinping (習近平) administers your oath of office on July 1, you will be inundated with issues to resolve; not only the day-to-day... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2082705/can-carrie-lam-steer-hong-kong-greatness-again?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2082705/can-carrie-lam-steer-hong-kong-greatness-again?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 Mar 2017 08:40:43 +0000 Last month, in the days following the government’s legal challenge of Yau Wai-ching and Sixtus Baggio Leung Chung-hang’s Legislative Council oaths, some observers pointed out that Leung Chun-ying took his own oath of office incorrectly. Standing before then president Hu Jintao ( 胡錦濤 ) on July 1, 2012, Leung pledged to “be held accountable to the central people’s government of the People’s Republic of China and the special administrative region” without specifying, as the Oaths and Declarations... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2054811/how-does-hong-kongs-chief-executive-fail-test-sincerity-let?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2054811/how-does-hong-kongs-chief-executive-fail-test-sincerity-let?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Dec 2016 09:50:33 +0000