The Pulse

There are two professions they say society will always need. Doctors and undertakers. Any other connections between the two are almost entirely coincidental. The funeral industry is inevitably interacting with its customers at a time that’s very diffic...

Well, in 2003 it was easy enough to se what the central issue was in the march, but what about this year? With us in the studio are three of this year’s march participants and organisers James Hon of the Professional Teachers’ Union, Sze Lai-shan of SO...

In 2003 it was easy enough to se what the central issue was in the march, but what about this year? With us in the studio are three of this year’s march participants and organisers James Hon of the Professional Teachers’ Union, Sze Lai-shan of SOCO, an...

First this week, the July 1st March, and this year there’s been much concern about whether the government is cracking down on the event itself more than in the past.

In a newspaper interview published on June 7th, PLA Chief of General Staff Chen Bingde said, for the first time, that Hong Kong people would be welcome to join the army in future. But many in Hong Kong still view the military force with considerable am...

On Wednesday, pan-democratic lawmakers resigned en masse from a Legco committee examining the government’s proposal to scrap by-elections in geographical constituencies and the five new district council constituency seats.With us in the studio is one o...

The discussion on resuming the Home Ownership Scheme took on new impetus when the visiting Director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office Wang Guangya reminded the Hong Kong government that it needed to tackle housing problems. The scheme, initiate...

A fire last week in a subdivided apartment space suggested that apart from being just inconvenient, a very pricy property market can be fatal. This isn’t a new problem. On the first of June, legislators had already asked the government whether it had a...

Nuclear Power Forum

Last Friday, as we prepared to go to air, local think tank Civic Exchange held a public forum on nuclear power. And it’s a topic that even splits Green groups, with some arguing that nuclear power is the least environmentally dam...

Is China Eavesdropping on Drivers?

If you regularly cross the border into mainland China and have a dual license plate, you’ll have been given a device to place in your vehicle. They supposedly speed cross-border processing. But some local lorry dri...