The Pulse

This week, legislators, some of them anyway, debated a motion to urge the Central Government to release Nobel Peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo and all political dissidents. The predictable faces, and voices, were noticeable by their absence, although they...

Visitors from around 20 countries are in Hong Kong this week to look for environmentally friendly technology, systems and products they can integrate into their business operations. It’s the 5th Eco Expo Asia. We report on some of the ideas on show.

It’s the tough guy syndrome. Men, when faced with problems, should just suck it up, grit their teeth and move on. While there is an increasing amount of social support for women, traditional attitudes are that the male just shouldn’t need such namby pa...

The Mandatory Provident Fund was introduced to make better provision for the elderly. For many, it’s a case of too little too late, and high management fees. As a result it may well not be the best option for a secure retirement.

Chief Executive Donald Tsang’s Sixth Policy Address was supposed to dampen property speculation. The weekend after he delivered it, property sales went up, and the bubble’s still growing. Now even the secondary market for some old housing estate flats ...

Is the Chinese government demonstrating a new sense of power on the international scene? Are its recent interactions with the rest of the world designed more to deal with domestic problems? Or is the truth a little bit of both? That’s the focus of The ...

It’s clean, it’s non-polluting, it’s healthy, as long as you don’t get killed or injured while trying to do it on Hong Kong’s roads. I’m talking about cycling. There are a hardy few who actually try to ride bicycles to work. Others ride them for sport ...

In Part Two, we look at world poverty with Oxfam's Frank Elvey. One in every two of the world’s children - 1 billion children) - live in poverty. In 2009 alone, just over eight million died before they reached the age of five. One dies every three seco...

With us in the studio to discuss the Address are Professor Michael Davis of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Fernando Cheung of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

In his sixth Policy Address, Chief Executive Donald Tsang insisted he would not be leading a lame-duck administration. Livelihood issues are the community’s principal concerns and will be his focus for the remaining two years in office. Housing, the we...