The Pulse

As expected, the beginning of the new term of the Legislative Council on Wednesday was what’s politely described as turbulent. The first meeting began with the 70 lawmakers taking their oaths. Three were rejected. Four other localists and seven pan-dem...

Hello and welcome to The Pulse. We’ve been away for two months, a period that turned out to be full of political and social activity – much of which has been ground breaking. Not least with the Legco elections bring in 26 new faces out of a total of 7...

Outgoing Legislative Council president Tsang Yok-sing, for the first time, reveals conditions under which he will contemplate running for Chief Executive, he also discusses obstacles facing candidates for the Legco elections, as well as whether debate ...

Rubbish, garbage, trash, waste. No, we’re not talking about recent events in Legco but the 9,000 tonnes of municipal solid waste Hong Kong produces every day, meaning that everyone who lives here is, on average, responsible for 1.36 kilogrammes. Up to ...

The Legco year is coming to an end and in September lawmakers are up for election. On Thursday, the Chief Executive addressed legislators’ questions. For some, it was their last chance in the chamber to try and get Leung Chun-ying to address their ques...

This week a delegation of top Hong Kong officials went to Beijing to follow up on concerns over why Hong Kong had not been notified that four of its citizens had been detained in the mainland and to review the notification mechanism that is supposed to...

Since the handover Hong Kong’s pro-establishment figures have celebrated July 1st, while many civil society groups have taken to the streets to use this day for protests, most dramatically in 2003 when hundreds of thousands marched to oppose the enactm...

Last week bookseller Lam Wing-kee gave a detailed account of what’s been happening to him, and his four other colleagues from the Causeway Bay Bookstore, during their eight months in captivity. Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying says he’s taking it very s...

We are looking at what can only be described as a bombshell news conference held on Thursday by, Lam Wing-kee, one of the Causeway Bay booksellers detained on the Mainland, and, according to Mr Lam’s testimony, detained illegally. His account of what h...

International brands like to use the faces and talents of stars and celebrities to boost sales of their products. In the spirit of cultural relativity and maximised profits, some are also driven to pander to potentially huge markets, whatever the ethic...