Aug 24, 2011 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: Aug. 24, 2011 Hong Kong may not have an elected government but onlookers would never know it from the sights and sounds of August, heading into a year that will see four separate local contests. If one of the prerequisites for achieving...
Jul 25, 2011 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: July 25, 2011 History inevitably belongs not to the past but to the future and the perspectives that come with it. Let history be the judge, say official Chinese commentators, when someone asks an awkward question about June 4, 1989. Hong...
Jul 4, 2011 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: July 4, 2011 … (July 5 update posted below) Two dates stand out on the calendar of Hong Kong’s democracy movement. One symbolizes its defiance of the central government in Beijing and this year’s June Fourth candlelight vigil...
Jun 14, 2011 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: June 14, 2011 Probably the best way of reconciling the contradictions in Democratic Party chairman Albert Ho’s political thinking (June 1 post) is not to try. This is because Hong Kong’s democracy movement has been reinvigorated in recent years...
Jun 1, 2011 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: June 1, 2011 Albert Ho Chun-yan [何俊仁], Legislative Councilor and current chairman of the Democratic Party, is no stranger to controversy. After he was bludgeoned in the face and nearly blinded a few years ago, the police tried to explain their...
May 13, 2011 | Letters from Hong Kong
Posted: May 13, 2011 In mid-April, Judge Joseph Fok ruled on a technical point concerning the Pearl River Delta bridge project that will span the estuary connecting Hong Kong in the east with the former Portuguese colony of Macau, and mainland points...
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