The Pulse

Operation Santa Claus is an annual charity campaign organised by South China Morning Post and the English Programme Service of RTHK. It’s been running for more than twenty years, in which time over 129 million dollars has been collected. This year’s ca...

From today until Sunday Hong Kong is playing host to an International Social Enterprise Symposium. With us in the studio are two of the people who will be speaking there - Lily Lapenna, the founder and managing director of MyBnk Ltd, and Christine Fan...

On Saturday Amnesty International Hong Kong and the Centre for Comparative & Public Law at the University of Hong Kong organised a seminar: "60 Years On: Human Rights in China". “The Pulse” was there.

For two days this week, the 2009 Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia, or CASBAA, Conference, attracted more than 600 media professionals from all over the world.This year’s event was called “Extending Your Reach”. Its main focus was th...

Another part of Hong Kong's collective memory is about to bite the dust.

Since the 1920s there has been a bus terminus at the Tsimshatsui Star Ferry. There used to be a railway station here too. That’s long gone, and if the government has its way t...

Around one thousand eight hundred people from different places and of different sexual orientations gathered last Sunday in Wanchai under the banner : “Be Proud, Be Yourself”for this year's Gay Pride parade. One of the organisers says that this year’s ...

Another part of the Policy Address that's been much discussed in the media at least, was the introduction of a cash voucher scheme to encourage the use of energy efficient light bulbs. News media quickly revealed that his son's father-in-law was a dist...

Over three days this week, legislators have been debating a motion of thanks on the Policy Address. Or rather, they were supposed to have been doing so. Much of the debate was taken up with the issue of soaring property prices, a subject on which the A...

Last week the Chief Executive announced that Hong Kong was steaming ahead to becoming an international educational hub.

In the meantime, many Hong Kong students are facing great difficulties finding places at local universities.

Are we getting ...

Last Sunday, many Choi Yuen Tsuen residents were out in force to make one thing clear: they do not want to lose their homes and land to make way for the 142 kilometre Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link.

On Tuesday, as the Executive Coun...