The Pulse

Next Sunday Hong Kong is holding District Council elections. This year, the more moderate pro democrats, are facing a particularly tough challenge, finding themselves opposed in many districts not only by pro-establishment figures but also by more radi...

Hong Kong’s first Cross Harbour race took place in 1906. The event continued for over 70 years, until being suspended in 1979 due to water pollution. Last Sunday, after a break of 33 years, it returned with 1,000 participants swimming from Lei Yue Mun ...

Hong Kong is nothing if not capitalist, but even in this bastion of free trade a certain disillusionment with the financial institutions and their influence is beginning to grow. Small wonder then that the anti-capitalist protests that have been taking...

There’s considerable demand for an improvement in welfare and healthcare services for the city’s ageing population. Many were disappointed that in his Policy Address Chief Executive Donald Tsang flatly dismissed a universal retirement protection scheme...

Protests outside the Legislative Council building are not a new phenomenon, but last Wednesday, as Donald Tsang made his Policy Address in the new building, protesters found new obstacles to airing their views. It wasn’t only the protesters who found t...

Ultimately, decisions made in this year’s Policy Address are going to affect upcoming generations. Throughout the week in the media – yes, here as well - we’ve heard what political pundits and interest groups have to say. We went out to discover how so...

The day after the Policy Address, the Chief Executive was back in the chamber for a Q & A session that proved initially stormy. When Wong Yuk-man asked about the appointment of Stephen Lam as Chief Secretary, the Chief Executive accused him of thuggish...

It was Donald Tsang’s final Policy Address, and the first to be given in the new Legislative Council building at Tamar. The Chief Executive offered some feel-good surprises to certain sectors of the public, including government-subsidised reductions in...

On the surface at least, Hong Kong is one of the world’s richer places. Yet according to a report published this week many low-income families cannot afford anything like the cost of buying food to meet the government’s own nutritional guidelines.

Last week, Hong Kong's High Court ruled that a domestic helper from the Philippines should be allowed to apply for Right of Abode The case was brought by Evangeline Banao Vallejos, who has lived here since 1986. Hong Kong's Secretary for Security, Ambr...