The Pulse

We begin our new series of The Pulse by looking at the Chief Executive race. So far, there are three main contenders, although last minute upsets still can’t be ruled out. If the process were a popular election, media allegations about the private life...

Hong Kong’s former Supreme Court Building has been home to the Legislative Council since 1985. It’s seen a lot of changes as the Legislative Council has gone from a body that essentially rubberstamped administration decisions to a body in which adminis...

If you go to most medical clinics or hospitals you expect many procedures to be handled by qualified individuals. Recently though, an incident at one of Hong Kong’s most respected fertility clinics became international news, and highlighted that when i...

In Hong Kong, you are, in the normal, run of things, eligible to apply for Permanent Resident status. Job description usually doesn’t matter … unless you have been working as a domestic helper. In that case, you can have been here for twenty years or t...

Thanks to the fact that vast swathes of Hong Kong’s green areas are on hills it’s difficult to build on, Hong Kong has a reasonable acreage of natural space. But some of the most important areas are under constant threat from developers. And one is the...

The ESF, or English Schools Foundation currently operates nine primary schools, five secondary schools and one special school in Hong Kong. It was established in 1967 under the English Schools Foundation Ordinance. Unlike other international schools, t...

With us in the studio to discuss the medical insurance issue are Dr Tse Hung-hing of the Health & Medical Development Advisory Committee and Dr George Cautherley of the Health Care Policy Forum.

Many people seem to be getting sick at the moment. The weather isn’t helping. Hopefully it’s mainly minor illnesses. For more serious problems the government is proposing to set up a private medical scheme by 2015. It plans to set aside $50 billion to ...

The recent confrontation between tthe Heung Yee Kuk and the administration over the issue of illegal structures on village houses, highlights once again the political clout of the rural organisation. But what are the historical origins of that politica...

It's climbdown after climbdown. The government's plan to scrap by-elections in the event of the resignation of geographically-elected lawmakers resigning or dying mid-term met with controversy from the outset. The government says it prevents abuse of t...