Less than two months after Donald Trump completed his first year in office as America’s most unconventional president in recent history, China’s National People’s Congress amended the country’s constitution to extend indefinitely Xi Jinping’s term as...

If you think Hong Kong’s insane property market will magically find sanity one day, don’t hold your breath. You will only suffocate. Forget that dream about owning a flat anytime soon. It will remain a dream...

A picture is worth a thousand words, as the old saying goes. I saw a recent picture in the media that told much more than a thousand words about Hong Kong as it marks 21 years...

If hundreds of young people armed with makeshift shields set fires, hurl bricks at police and kick them to the ground, would you describe such violence as a riot? Before you decide, you need to know the...

Can Hong Kong ever be like mainland China? That question came up at a recent private dinner I attended. One businessman gave this blunt answer: Hong Kong is part of China but it will never be...

In today’s internet age, democracy can sometimes be its own worst enemy. Just look at the huge role social media is playing on how democratic societies exercise democracy. Social media can be a boon in budding...

Hong Kong people love to boast about their core values. But what exactly are these values they say they so cherish? Some are easy to pinpoint. They say they are proud of Hong Kong’s rule of...

Will Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor dare go where no other chief executive has gone before to tackle Hong Kong’s housing crunch once and for all? Will her administration have the guts to shut Hong Kong’s housing...

Not all trade wars are created equal. But as the saying goes, all’s fair in love and war. A trade war between the United States and the European Union would be more equal than a trade...

Is a grand reconciliation in the making? Or are we just seeing an illusion created by both sides for public consumption? My hunch is the recent rapport between the opposition and Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng...

People often read too much into an election result. Election outcomes are merely snapshots of the public mood at a given time. It is quite possible that if the same election was held again a month...

Hong Kong is a super-rich city by any standards. It has fiscal reserves of about HK$1 trillion. But even that astronomical amount is not the whole story. The government has squirreled away huge amounts of money...

Two days ago I interviewed feng shui master Michael Chiang Hong-man on TV. He predicted a generally good year for Hong Kong in the Year of the Dog, which begins tomorrow. Sadly, the Year of the...

Whose side are you on? We now have such rancorous politics that Hong Kong people are always having to choose sides. Some people say I have become a supporter of the establishment camp. They are wrong...

If you could turn back the clock, would you do things differently? I’m sure most people would. Executive Councilor Ronny Tong Ka-wah said on radio recently if we could turn back the clock, the government should...

We’re now seeing for the first time in Hong Kong a clash of two vastly different legal systems. If not handled delicately, a constitutional crisis could erupt that rocks the very foundation of one country, two...

Last week, the opposition lost its sting. That happened when the establishment exploited a window of opportunity to force through Legislative Council rules changes that would limit the opposition’s use of delaying tactics to hinder the...

Whenever people ask me to name the person I admire most, I always reply without hesitation: Bill Gates. Of course, there are many men and women in history that I admire but Gates is top on...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor is in need of a reality check. After she and Guangdong Governor Ma Xingrui signed the first step last week of a three-stage legal process for joint immigration control at...

Was it a slip of the tongue or a Freudian slip? Only Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor knows. But either way, I am flabbergasted by the public uproar over her remark during a media interview...