Rising through the ranks as a civil servant, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor was Hong Kong’s 4th and current Chief Executive.

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Can Hong Kong’s ‘patriots-only’ legislature hold itself to account?

“Evidence of LegCo’s autonomy would be holding such inquiries into the government’s performance regarding the two most significant events since the city’s Handover from British to Chinese rule in 1997: the protests that rocked Hong Kong in 2019 and the Covid-19 pandemic,” writes John Burns.

COMMENTARY & ANALYSIS

Free flags and forbidden fishtails: Hong Kong’s new patriots-only era

It’s the little things that give you away. I mean, HK$140,000 is not a lot of money in terms of government spending, but it is our money, and the way in which it slipped through our collective fingers tells you a lot about how things are run these days. The story starts last October, when…

Hong Kong’s reluctance to keep Jumbo Floating Restaurant afloat exposes flaws in gov’t-led gentrification scheme

The iconic Jumbo Floating Restaurant was promised a new lease of life as a “distinctive cultural heritage and tourist attraction” when Chief Executive Carrie Lam painted a rosy picture of the future of Aberdeen Harbour in her policy address in November 2020. She called the plan: Invigorating Island South.   For more than 40 years, the…

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Small mercies: Low-profile groups struggle to support Hong Kong prisoners a year after the fall of Wall-fare

Of all the traumatic occasions in Wall-fare’s brief but eventful existence, the founder of the prisoners’ rights group will above all remember March last year – when tearful and panicky relatives of dozens of detained pro-democracy figures thronged its office appealing for help. The 1,000-square-foot room was in tumult, recalled Shiu Ka-chun in an interview…

In Pictures: Unkindest cut – Hong Kong’s last sawmill to close after 75 years to make way for new Northern Metropolis

The owner of Chi Kee Sawmill & Timber, Wong Hung-kuen, describes the 75-year-old business as a “temple of carpentry” in Hong Kong. But the city is about to lose its last such temple. The 72 year-old carpenter inherited the sawmill from his father, who founded it in 1947. It survived the city’s economic transition from…

Timeline: Hong Kong’s July 1 carnival of dissent – how 17 years of protest demands fell silent

Officially, July 1 marks the anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to Chinese rule in 1997. Traditionally, it was also a day for tens – or even hundreds – of thousands of Hongkongers to take their diverse demands and grievances to the streets. From pro-democracy groups to labour unions, from LGBT+ rights advocates to artists wielding…

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