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Hong Kong Post Occupy Central – The Likely Consequences

We reproduce below the circular of Steve Vickers & Associates (SVA) which is a specialist risk mitigation, corporate intelligence, security and consulting company serving financial institutions, private equity funds, corporations, high net-worth individuals and insurance companies and underwriters around the…

The Taste of Old Hong Kong

For anyone living in Hong Kong for more than just a few years this writing will bring a lot of pleasure and not just a few laughs. Primarily, it’s not really a cookbook at all, though there are recipes in…

Accreditation of journalists in Hong Kong

The UK’s relations with Hong Kong: 30 years after the Joint Declaration – Wednesday 17 December 2014 – ordered by the House of Commons to be published on 17 December 2014, notes taken from that telephon regarding accreditation of journalists…

Around Hong Kong for 80 days

Hong Kong’s last Occupy site, in Causeway Bay, on this otherwise cheerful Monday morning 15 December, was the focus of attention of the remaining occupiers, the police and the public plus a bevy of cleaners waiting in the wings. Under…

The Chinese baby and the British bath water

A prominent figure on the Hong Kong political scene and someone who should know better, a lot better, Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee – legislator and chair of the New People’s Party – has written an editorial for the South China…

Hong Kong protests: revisit and revise report on constitutional reform sent to Beijing

The latest petition by the Avaaz Community is having wide circulation and the organisers are saying that in just 84 hours, more than 50.000 signed up to call for an investigation of police violence in Hong Kong. Title: Investigate Hong…

Hong Kong: a generation has been radicalized

Extract from Facebook Gordon Mathews – anthropologist at The Chinese University of Hong Kong I went to Admiralty last night, to be with my students, after the Hong Kong Federation of Students called for an escalation of protests. I went because…

Hong Kong: Umbrella movement day 65

UMBRELLA MOVEMENT DAY 65 Violent clashes between protesters and police as students admit failure over CGO siege Monday 1 December 2014 Recap by Roydon Ng (www.roydonng.net/blog) FB: Roydon Ng Twitter: @RoydonNg After a night of violent clashes between protesters and…

Hong Kong’s Umbrella movement for “fun” and for “gau-wu”

The Facebook page of “United for Democracy: Global Solidarity with Hong Kong” has lots of one-liners greeting the latest phenomenon erupting from the streets of Hong Kong, particularly the more frenzies district of Mong Kok. Explain gau wu to your…

Ethnic Minorities: Hong Kong is Our Home

Statement earlier this month from Hong Kong’s ethnic minority community: Ethnic Minorities: Hong Kong is Our Home – Condemn violence! Oppose manipulation! No racial prejudice! We are a group of first, second and third generation ethnic minorities who have lived…

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