On Thursday's Backchat  we're taking a close look at Chief Executive CY Leung's five-year term of office, which ends on Friday.  Mr Leung has released a report on the work of his administration, praising Hong Kong's economic growth and measures to ...

On Wednesday's Backchat we're talking about the release on medical parole of Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist Liu Xiaobo, who's been diagnosed with terminal liver cancer. Democracy activists here have staged a demonstration outside the Beijing l...

On Tuesday’s Backchat: Should Carrie Lam try again on universal suffrage after she takes office on Saturday? Some of her advisers think she should political reform back on the agenda, but Beijing seems opposed. Also on Tuesday’s show: Are wild boars gr...

On Monday's Backchat, a cashless Hong Kong. As Octopus seeks to expand and modernise its services, are we catching up with the trend, or falling behind? What are the pros and cons of payments without notes and coins? What are particular problems in...

On Friday's Backchat, national education. The controversial topic is returning to the headlines with calls for Basic Law study to be added to the curriculum in schools, claims that education since 1997 has failed to foster a sense of Chinese ident...

The incoming Chief Executive Carrie Lam's first team of ministers is our main focus in Thursday's Backchat. The Central Government has approved the line-up, which was officially announced on Wednesday. But despite Mrs Lam saying earlier that she'd w...

On Wednesday's Backchat, the MPF offset. In the last days of his term CY Leung announced a progressive phasing out of the controversial clause whereby employers' contributions to workers' pension funds are used for their long-service ...

On Tuesday's Backchat, Beijing and Hong Kong. Wang Zhemin claimed last week that HK had never had independent politics as it followed Britain's system before its return to the Motherland and it had to follow the Mainland's after that. Chen Zuo'er s...

On Monday's Backchat, what has Hong Kong achieved in the last 20 years? One party is pointing to our growth as a financial centre, low unemployment, low taxes, solid GDP growth and a healthy Hang Seng. The there's a lot more money for Social Welfar...

On Friday's Backchat, will we have enough doctors? A report claims there will be a shortage of 4000 people in nine healthcare professions by 2030, with a shortfall of 1000 doctors and 1600 nurses. Is the report right? What about boosting our traini...