The Pulse

In January, without prior discussion with legislators, the government gazetted legislation that will make it easier for developers to acquire older properties. With effect from April 1st, those developers can seek a compulsory sale from the Lands Tribu...

On the Monday before our broadcast, the body of a mainland Chinese student was found at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She was the third student at the institution to have committed suicide in the past 18 months. Three university students have ki...

Father Franco Mella was born in Milan, Italy. Thirty five years ago, he came to Hong Kong as a missionary. A firm believer in the socialist ideal, he has lived and worked with the poor, and fought for their rights. During political protests Father Mell...

Property prices are on the up again. And most people’s salaries haven’t been rising to keep up. Things have reached a stage where even property developers and bankers, for so long arguing against government intervention in the market, are now saying th...

The management of Hong Kong’s largest technical educational institution, the Polytechnic University, is facing many questions. According to its latest financial report the university had a deficit of $900 million last year, while over a hundred senior ...

It’s an open secret that the Chinese Communist Party has long functioned in Hong Kong, still functions in Hong Kong, and will continue to function in Hong Kong, even though, strictly speaking, it has no legal presence here. A new book by Christine Loh,...

The day before our programme, Hopewell Holdings chairman Gordon Wu said, on the sidelines of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, that people in Hong Kong who speak of "uprising" and "liberation" have hidden agendas. Meanwhile the fi...

Last February, an official government report stated that in 2008, for the first time, HIV/AIDS was China's leading cause of death among infectious diseases. Many of them were infected not by sexual transmission, but by blood donation. And one octogenar...

The Budget was a more generous affair than many would have predicted a year ago. Financial Secretary John Tsang spent more than HK$19 billion on one-off measures designed to help the economy and the less privileged.Everyone likes handouts, but some peo...

According to Chinese astrology, the end of the Year of the Ox marks the end of one complete astrological cycle since the 1997 handover. Thinking it was time for a bit of a review, even if slightly irreverent, Ryan Ho and Anson Lau invited illustrator C...