The Pulse

It’s been a historic week for Hong Kong, although – putting the political rhetoric aside for the moment – it’ll be a while before we know whether it’s a giant step forward or something else entirely.

Whatever happens after the reforms go through, i...

The Chinese government and China Light and Power have played down worries over recent reports of a radiation leak at the Daya Bay nuclear power plant. Some sources are arguing such fuel rod leaks are common. Another, quoted in today’s papers, says they...

Security was tight around the Central Government Offices where the debate was taking place to keep out protesters. Instead, many of those interested watched from outside the Legislative Council building where it was relayed live. Audrey Eu visited the ...

The big political event of this week in Hong Kong was the debate between Chief Executive Donald Tsang and legislator Audrey Eu on constitutional reform. According to news media, commentators, and opinion polls, most felt it did not go well for the Chie...

he Foxconn Technology Group, which has recently been in the news after a series of worker suicides at its compound in Shenzhen, said yesterday it may consider moving some of its production lines back to Taiwan. In other words if labour costs too much i...

Nine million dollars. That’s how much the government’s campaign to tell you to Act Now on constitutional reform has cost. The government says the Act Now TV spots are not political advertisements. Ironically, a very similar spot produced by the Civic P...

Last week the Equal Opportunities Commission expressed its concern over internet messages that it felt incited racial hatred. Under the Race Discrimination Ordinance it’s against the law to discriminate, harass or vilify a person on the ground of the p...

The day after our programme goes to air government ministers will be taking to the streets again, as they did the previous weekend, to convince Hong Kong people to “Act Now” on constitutional reform. Last weekend they were strangely coy about telling t...

Hong Kong’s minorities don’t often see themselves, or their lives, reflected in its media. Or if they do, they tend to be shown in stereotyped if not derogatory fashion. This week, they were telling lawmakers what they are hoping for from Hong Kong’s f...

It’s June 4th. That anniversary. And activists have already run into problems while wanting to commemorate the events of 21 years ago. On Wednesday, the police returned the two statues and a relief sculpture, confiscated last weekend, to the Hong Kong ...