... ding of Appropriation Bill 2017, some democrats expressed their dissatisfaction with the budget for lacking details of how the government will improve people’s lives, especially as it is sitting on hu ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-13
Since the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on July 1, 1997, the national flag of the People’s Republic of China has been flying proudly in the city, a symbol of Beijing’s s ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-13
... , who has promised a referendum on whether to quit the EU and ditch the euro. She has been joined on the list of investors' concerns by far-left veteran Jean-Luc Melenchon, who has surged in the polls ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-13
... nsure the prosperity and stability of Hong Kong, deepen cooperation between Hong Kong and China and improve the lives of its people. Indeed, Li has set the task for the new chief executive to integrat ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-12
On Monday, lawmaker Michael Tien announced that he was quitting New People's Party (NPP), the pro-Beijing political outfit that he co-founded six years ago with former security secretary Regina Ip. Th ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-11
... fter many pro-establishment lawmakers staged a walkout to prevent two localist lawmakers-elect -- Sixtus Baggio Leung and Yau Wai-ching -- from retaking their oaths. Cheng said nothing can be more ab ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-11
As chief executive-elect Carrie Lam is seeking to set up her administration team, pro-establishment parties are preparing to send in recommendations and offer suggestions on possible candidates for va ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-10
... nt and no province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government may interfere in the affairs which the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region administers on its own in ac ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-07
Thailand's king signed a military-backed constitution into law, an essential step toward an election the junta has promised will restore democracy after the 12th successful coup in little over 80 year ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-07
Few heeded a law signed by then outgoing US president Barack Obama before last Christmas. In fact, that's exactly what Obama wanted when he “quietly” signed the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disin ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-06
Chief Executive-elect Carrie Lam said late last week that she is having problems in putting together her ministerial team that will take up the reins of the government from July 1. The news isn't too ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-05
... nity from prosecution for anything he has done in Hong Kong. The next three months are a transition period, during which the power rests with CY while Lam wants to build her authority as the new leade ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-05
... tween the pro-democracy and pro-establishment camps, keeps her from listening to demands from the former only. Asked what she will focus on during the first 100 days after she takes office on July 1, ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-05
Edward Yau, a local school teacher who blogs under the pen name Kursk, has decided to stop writing political commentaries following attacks and harassment by pro-establishment groups. The popular blog ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-03
... ilors are pro-democracy lawmakers who got more than 50 percent of the total votes in the last Legco elections. As such, the degree to which the incoming administration is willing to improve its relati ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-03
... Mandatory Provident Fund scheme. Now, as Lam is set to take over as the city's new chief executive, I believe she may find three new big mountains lying before her on the horizon, which are: 1) how to ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-31
... , all the pro-establishment members of the Election Committee, who almost hold a three-fourths majority, needed to do on Sunday was to cast their votes for Beijing's handpicked candidate as instructed ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-31
... ay Occupy protest and its offshoot, the Mong Kok riots. Should the new chief executive revisit political reforms in the coming five years in the hope it will heal our divided society? Or should Lam pu ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-31
Right after her election victory was sealed on Sunday, Chief Executive-elect Carrie Lam said in her acceptance speech that she had felt humbled by the intense election campaign, and was ready to prove ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-30
... ay Occupy protest and its offshoot, the Mong Kok riots. ...全文
今日信報時事評論STRAIGHT-SHOOTING褚簡寧 Michael Chugani2017年03月30日
