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“Horse racing will continue, dancing parties will go on.” This is a famous saying by late Chinese paramount leader Deng Xiaoping seeking to assure the jittery Hongkongers in the 1980s that the then British colony’s freewheeling capitalist lifestyles would remain unchanged after 1997. Like the future

Hong Kong has been known as a liberal society with rule of law. People are free to do and say whatever they want to within the law. Self-regulation is preferred. Being considerate of oneself and others is deeply rooted in society. Only when self-regulation is proved to be a failure the government st

Wanted: freedom from fear | Chris Yeung | At Large It was not until the 1990s that the concept of freedom from fear had caused disquiet in some quarters of the Hong Kong society following the publication of a book by Myanmar’s democracy crusader Aung San Suu Kyi under the same title. But for many ye

At a time when the Hong Kong Government is launching a blitz of publicity to tell the world all is well in Hong Kong, a forum on the city’s media scene at the margins of a United Nations council meeting is the last publicity it wants. Organised by the British government and co-sponsored by at least

Hopes, if any, that the annual “two sessions” concluded in Beijing this week will signal the beginning of healing and reconciliation in Hong Kong after a protracted phase of socio-political turbulence erupted in mid-2019 look dim. Remarks made by top Chinese officials during the National People’s Co