The way the Hong Kong Bar Association has been dealing with the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region over the years could best be described as utilitarian if not hypocritical. That is, they took the Basic Law seriously only when they believed it was in their favor. Recent remarks made by the […]
The “Union for New Civil Servants” (Union), which was established in the wake of the anti-extradition movement in 2019, recently disbanded itself. With an anti-government agenda, the Union organized various campaigns to undermine the SAR government, support violence perpetrated by rioters and indiscriminately attack the SAR government. Those actions clearly breached the civil service code […]
What took a decade to achieve unraveled within a matter of months. It seems like another age, but the start of 2020 had marked a decade of decline in the unemployment rate of the world’s advanced economies. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the unemployment rate in OECD countries increased by an unprecedented 3.6 percentage points […]
(SHI YU / CHINA DAILY) Last November, the world cheered the news that three gene-based COVID-19 vaccines-one developed by German biotech company BioNTech in collaboration with Pfizer, another by US-based biotech firm Moderna, and a third by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca-had proved effective in clinical trials. But a month before that, researchers revealed […]
Many local governments have appealed to people to stay where they work during the upcoming Spring Festival holiday to reduce the risk of infection in the wake of sporadic outbreaks of the novel coronavirus in some parts of the country. Some local authorities have even unveiled plans to give people subsidies to persuade them to […]
President Xi Jinping's appeal to a divided world to return to sanity and join hands to contain the COVID-19 pandemic and meet other global challenges is also a call to the new US administration to end the ugly era of stigmatization and accusations-created by former US president Donald Trump and former secretary of state Mike […]
Hong Kong’s GDP is feeling the pinch as COVID-19 rages on, falling by 6.1 percent year-on-year. Under an exceptionally severe fourth wave of outbreaks, the unemployment rate hit a 16-year high in the fourth quarter. The rising unemployment rate is also related to the SAR government’s decision not to continue the “Employment Support Scheme” (Scheme) […]
Geoffrey Ma Tao-li officially retired as chief justice of the Court of Final Appeal (CFA) on January 11, 2021. He held a press conference on the morning of January 5 to conclude his 10-year term of office. In his opening speech, Ma brought up the subject of judicial reform, which has been a hot topic […]
The new chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association, Paul Harris, claimed immediately after being elected that the earlier arrest of 55 individuals by the Hong Kong police on charges of subversion under the special administrative region's National Security Law is "deliberate intimidation of the democratic movement". It seems that he is claiming that they […]
The rapid-response regime known as “restriction testing”, which targets specific buildings and surrounding areas where multiple people have tested positive for COVID-19, has proved quite effective so far, with more than a dozen confirmed cases discovered since the SAR government adopted this new anti-pandemic tactic last week. Scores of residential buildings in the Yau Tsim […]
The founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 laid the institutional foundation for the protection of Chinese citizens' basic rights. The country's Constitution, adopted in 1954, established the principles of people's democracy, socialism and the system of people's congresses, institutionally guaranteed that all State rights belong to the people, and stipulated the basic […]
(SONG CHEN / CHINA DAILY) US President Joe Biden's China team is competent but does not inspire confidence. Given the COVID-19 pandemic, the global economic downturn and the harsh chorus of wolfish howls and growls on both sides of the US-China divide, it will take more than the usual bureaucratic competence to get things back […]
Editor's Note: The Chinese people have always attached special importance to education. In the 20th century, China has gone through a long, arduous journey from one-teacher schools to world-class universities and achieved excellence in different fields including science and technology. What will China's education journey be like during the rest of the 21st century? In […]
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In the last article, we have explained why the Hong Kong government’s claim that the relaunch of the Tenants Purchase Scheme (TPS) will cause the supply of public rental housing (PRH) to shrink in a short period of time is nothing but an exaggeration. (Impact of relaunching tenants purchase plan would be negligible, Dec 17, […]
The wealth gap between the rich and the poor has always been a deep-rooted problem of Hong Kong’s. With the added impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, grassroots families are invariably bearing the brunt of the worsening unemployment. The median household income recorded a significant drop in 2020. For instance, the median income of economically active […]
On December 21, Nathan Law Kwun-chung, a professional agitator, announced that he was seeking political asylum in the United Kingdom. He said an anti-China “consensus needs to be built” in the UK and the EU, and he wanted to help take this forward. However, before the UK authorities rush into granting him asylum, they need […]
Editor's Note: Now that Joe Biden has assumed the US president's office, what should Washington and Beijing do to put bilateral ties back on the right track? And how can the two sides manage their differences and engage in healthy competition and win-win cooperation? Five experts with the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies shared their […]
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It is interesting to note that both the former and the new chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association recently talked about their aspirations for the group to reopen communications with Beijing. However, observers will perceive their aspirations to be insincere — at the very least. Over the past three years under Philip Dykes’ leadership, […]
I was shocked to learn of the shutting down of a major law firm in Hong Kong by the Law Society of Hong Kong. Among the grievous breaches alleged was the misappropriation of clients’ funds by a former employee. The Law Society claimed that as the regulatory body of Hong Kong lawyers, it had no […]
Dear members of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, In response to the recent statement by the so-called “Five Eyes” alliance (sans New Zealand) condemning Hong Kong for arresting 55 individuals for subversion under the National Security Law, and an appeal to support the United States, which imposed fresh sanctions on another six Chinese individuals, we […]
With the recent waves of public demand for judiciary review, it is gratifying to note the encouraging remarks made by the new chief justice, Andrew Cheung Kui-nung, in his maiden public address at the opening ceremony of the Legal Year on Jan 11. Firstly, he remarked on the importance of the judiciary being staffed by […]
On Thursday Shanghai took urgent measures trying to rein in the rapidly rising housing prices in the metropolis. In fact, it's worrying that in 2020 the average land sales in China reached 676.2 yuan (US$104.68) per square meter, an 18 percent year-on-year increase. The Central Economic Work Conference, held in December to set the agenda […]
A municipal worker paints a sign reminding people to maintain social distancing ahead of the opening of Marine Drive to the public as the government eases restrictions imposed as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Mumbai on June 2, 2020. (PUNIT PARANJPE / AFP) COVID-19 is hitting everyone hard, and […]
(MA XUEJING / CHINA DAILY) Recent resurgences of novel coronavirus infections in Jilin province and Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, have renewed concerns about sporadic outbreaks. Yet in the light of the lockdowns in multiple major countries and the number of global cumulative cases close to 100 million, the number of cases in China remains marginal. A […]
Song Shuixian (center) demonstrates the skills of traditional embroidery in a poverty-relief workshop in Sandu county, Guizhou province. (PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY) Poverty is the most difficult problem of human development in history and the biggest challenge of globalization in the 21st century. On Dec 14, the International Forum on Human Experience in Poverty […]
(CAI MENG / CHINA DAILY) The COVID-19 pandemic has provided the world with its toughest stress test in more than 80 years. Pointing to mid-single-digit growth in world GDP this year from Pictet Asset Management's economic indicators, positive base effects cannot hide the long-lasting damage caused by the pandemic. We estimate that the fallout from […]
The central government announced on Jan 18 that against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese mainland achieved 2.3 percent growth in gross domestic product in 2020, and a much higher 6.5 percent GDP growth in the fourth quarter of 2020. The figures are nothing short of a miracle, as the mainland was the […]