The Pulse

The new year is a time for looking back and looking forward, making those famous and often soon forgotten resolution.The wish to see into the future has always been with us. In Britain, “The Old Moore’s Almanack” has been predicting weather and making ...

Also in Part One, the Lunar New Year is an auspicious festival, and to increase the chances of good fortune it’s traditional to write lucky words on red papers.These papers are called “Fai Chun”, and may include such expressions as “Wishing you safety ...

Kung Hei Fat Choi, and welcome to the first edition of The Pulse for the Year of the Rabbit, or if you’re Vietnamese “The Year of the Cat”.And it’s a more festive edition than usual. Tonight we’re giving politics a bit of a rest, and focusing on more s...

According to some commentators, President Hu Jintao’s state visit to the United States, which ended last Friday, ranks alongside Deng Xiaoping’s American tour in 1979, and Jiang Zemin’s trip in 1997, as a milestone in China’s international relations, p...

According to some commentators, President Hu Jintao’s state visit to the United States, which ended last Friday, ranks alongside Deng Xiaoping’s American tour in 1979, and Jiang Zemin’s trip in 1997, as a milestone in China’s international relations, p...

According to the Hong Kong Society for the Blind there are over 120,000 people with varying degrees of visual impairment in Hong Kong, around eleven and a half thousand of whom are totally blind.And yet one area where the SAR falls far behind many othe...

New home owners in one development on Hong Kong island are probably feeling they should have got their own flats as a knock down price. At least when they saw the finished result. Some thought their brand nre flats, in "The Icon" were handed to them lo...

The book of condolence for former legislator Szeto Wah has been outside the Legislative Council this week.Meanwhile, throughout the week legislators have been asking for clarification on whether exiled mainland dissidents will be allowed to attend his ...

Hong Kong’s stock exchange could have a good year this year, due partly to an increase in initial public offerings from mainland Chinese companies. But perhaps in order to get more of those listings, the rules have been relaxed, and in a way that some ...

Last year, a video showing a Hong Kong tour guide “Ah Chen” hectoring a tour group from the mainland spread widely on the internet, particularly across China itself. She was reprimanding the visitors for spending too little in shops from which her agen...