Hong Kong Connection

In Hong Kong hospitals, there are as yet no specialist services for patients of rare diseases. Let’s visit two families whose sons have rare diseases.

Magnificent bridges are awe inspiring. But generally we marvel only at the genius of the engineers and the magnitude of the financial input, hardly appreciating the investment of human sweat and blood.

People are living longer and longer. While longevity is something to be celebrated, an ageing population is a considerable problem for any modern city or country.

According to Hong Kong Population Projections, the population is expected to remain on ...

For some three quarters of a century, antibiotics have done humankind great service. Due to various reasons, however, they are fast losing their efficacy against superbugs. Alarm bells are ringing.

Liu Xiaobo, the famous Chinese scholar, dissident and Nobel laureate, is dead. He frequently said China was in need of a moral giant. Little did he realise that for numerous Chinese, he was that very giant himself.

The Government seems determined to promote sport as an integral part of life in the SAR. However, there is still a lack of top-class facilities and not every new

proposal is meeting with public approval.

The existence of Hong Kong as a special administrative region of China came

about as a result of Deng Xiao-ping’s pragmatism. But how do the people of Hong

Kong feel about ‘one country, two systems’ so far?

Freedom of expression, one of the most important principles of democracy, is supposedly enshrined in the Basic Law, the de facto constitution by which the Hong Kong SAR is to be governed. Is it now under threat?

Hong Kong officially returned to China on the 1 st of July 1997. Twenty of the first 50 years have gone by. How much has changed in Hong Kong?

With increasing Judicial Review cases, this episode seeks to explain the basic principles of its operation, as well as its merits to improve governance. Many judicial review cases seem to be highly political, yet in reality many cases concern important...