The Pulse

A brain bleed undiagnosed by doctors, a baby's leg amputated as the result of a routine medical procedure, another baby dropped on a floor. Stories of medical misadventures have been surfacing with alarming frequency lately. There are complaints mechan...

It’s less than a year since the last major fire in Mong Kok's Fa Yuen Street. As with the last fire, there are suspicions that this one was set deliberately, perhaps as part of an extortion attempt. Firefighters believe that this latest blaze began in ...

As we reported last week, this year’s charity drive Operation Santa Claus is under way. And while the world once again isn’t in the best financial shape, the organisers are hoping that – as in the past – the Hong Kong public will dig into its collectiv...

Eat at home, do your own cooking, buy fresh produce, and you can be reasonably sure that the food you are putting in your mouth is safe and additive free. But eat out regularly, or buy processed foods, and you can never be quite as sure. One additive, ...

This week, the think tank Civic Exchange launched a report called “The Memory Hole: Why Hong Kong Needs an Archives Law.” It asks, simply, why Hong Kong doesn’t have a law, as almost every developed country in the world that obligates governments to ke...

The district council elections are over, but questions remain about whether some of the voters even exist. Some news organizations have reported that there was a considerable increase in registered voters in some districts. Some voters with different s...

Finally for this week, Santa Claus is coming to town. It may seem early, but we’re talking about the annual Operation Santa Claus campaign, which kicked off on Monday to raise money for sixteen deserving causes.

Born in Shanghai, and raised in Hong Kong, as an adult author Chan Koon-chung previously set up home in both Hong Kong and Taipei. In 2000, in order to learn more about mainland China and to write, he relocated to Beijing.His newly-translated novel “Th...

Even before their formal declaration of their candidacies, expected to come at the end of this month, the two front runners for the city’s top job, former Chief Secretary Henry Tang and former Executive Council convenor Leung Chun-ying, joined the firs...

First in this week's show, it’s one of the worst fears of many parents, that someone in a position of trust may abuse their children. The government‘s new Sexual Conviction Record Check Scheme, introduced this week, may allay some of those fears.