The Pulse

It’s likely that the Chief Executive views his Question and Answer sessions in the Legislative Council with some trepidation. This week, yet again, there were moments when it turned into a showdown with members of the League of Social Democrats.

While there is still denial in some quarters over whether global warming actually exists, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies recently announced that the global surface temperature in 2010 has already reached record levels. As temperatures ris...

It has taken a long time, but the Hong Kong government has finally agreed to minimum wage legislation. However, concerns were expressed this week that it may do little to help some of society’s most disadvantaged people. It could bring problems for soc...

Two weeks ago, the Hong Kong Journalists’ Association collaborated with a film company to organise a workshop on press freedom and the free flow of information, or lack of it, in mainland China. Two documentary film directors were invited to share thei...

Last week, legislators held a motion debate on whether freedom of speech is becoming more tightly restricted in Hong Kong. On Saturday, the Hong Kong Journalists’ Association released a report that said it was. Government attempts to hinder pro-democra...

In March, to convince sceptics that reports of sales of 24 flats at 39 Conduit Road were genuine, Henderson Land’s chairman Lee Shau-kee offered a 100-to-one wager.One flat had featured the world’s most expensive floor area at HK$88,000 a square foot. ...

In Part Two of the show, where does an apparently deeply divided pro-democracy alliance go from here? With us in the studio are the Democratic Party’s James To, the Civic Party’s Ronny Tong, and Cyd Ho of Civic Act-Up.

Tonight we’re looking at the fortunes of the pro-democracy movement.

After the Democratic Party supported the government’s 2012 Constitutional Reform package last week, many who formerly identified with the party have felt cheated.Yesterday, the Dem...

On the other side of the Legco building, and largely kept apart from pro-government demonstrators by police, pro-democracy protesters were not directing ALL their anger at government officials or pro-government legislators. Many were furious at the Dem...

Over the past few weeks, pan-democrats have been organising demonstrations against the 2012 package. Government officials have also been out on the street telling people to Act Now. Over the past seven days, the pro-Beijing organisations have been dete...