Hong Kong Connection

What is music to one person could well be noise to another. What, then, are we to make of the sounds that we hear in our environment? Are they cacophonous … or symphonic? 

 

Producer:  Phoebe Chan

Political magazines have never enjoyed any significant readership in Hong Kong. But they have been given a new lease of life in recent years. Their contents are almost always exposes of secrets of the Communist regime and visitors from the mainland fin...

The Pearl River Delta has for years been the production base for Hong Kong manufacturers. But China’s economy has changed. No longer is labour cheap, nor is it in abundant supply for factory work. For the manufacturers, relocation of their production p...

For all the rapid development, there are still many old buildings in Hong Kong. Some are grand structures while others are rather dilapidated residential blocks, but a good number of them could be considered to be of historical value. Which should be r...

The Legislation Council elections in the Hong Kong SAR have just concluded. Competition was bitter. Among all the battle cries and slogans, latent sentiments came to the surface. 

 

Producer: Gillian Yau

Is there a need in Hong Kong for moral and national education to be taught in schools as an independent subject? The Government says yes and a course directive has in fact been issued. Many parents and students say no. Schools are caught in the middle ...

Hong Kong has been a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China for 15 years. What do the people think about their new identity? How do they feel about the next 35 years, during which, as Deng Xiao-ping promised, things in Hong K...

Hong Kong has been a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China for 15 years. What do the people think about their new identity? How do they feel about the next 35 years, during which, as Deng Xiao-ping promised, things in Hong K...

A year after being devastated by an earthquake and tsunami, the northeastern coastal communities of Japan are going about their daunting task of rebuilding. We visited one of those communities immediately after the disaster and returned about a year l...

On the 11th of march last year, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake rocked the ocean floor off northeastern Japan and set off a tsunami that devastated many of the country’s coastal settlements. The worst result of the devastation could well be the crippling o...