The pulse [2014]
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1. New Year's Day Rally ; Disunity in the pro-Beijing camp ; The Peninsula Hotel's 85th
2014-01-03
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"While some people may have been nursing hangovers on New Year's Day, others were out marching in the hope of seeing universal suffrage in Hong Kong sometime in the foreseeable future. The New Year's ...
2. More obstacles for HKTV ; Ming Pao editor replaced ; China's debt crisis
2014-01-10
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"Ricky Wong's HKTV has given up on its dream of free TV for now, and settled for transmission over the mobile network he has acquired from China Mobile Hong Kong Corporation, a subsidiary of state-own...
3. Public attitudes to universal suffrage and Occupy Central ; CY's second Policy Address
2014-01-17
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"One thing that didn't get much of a mention in the Policy Address this week was constitutional reform. It is going to get a mention here though. Earlier this week the Hong Kong Transition Project ann...
4. Abuse of domestic helpers ; Guest house regulation
2014-01-24
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"Hong Kong was shocked last week by seeing the injuries inflicted on an Indonesian domestic helper, Erwiana, allegedly by her employer. The news went around the world, and was hardly great for Hong Ko...
21:49 5. Year of the Horse - Four views
2014-01-31
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"This week, to see in the Year of the Horse and see out the Year of the Snake, we've asked four people from different areas of society to look back and look forward, and tell us about feelings about w...
6. Cantonese under threat? ; Widening of drug testing powers ; Censoring fortune-telling books
2014-02-07
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"Last September Chinese state media said that more than 400 million Chinese are unable to speak Putonghua the national language, and large numbers in the rest of the country speak it badly. Pretty muc...
7. Press freedom (1) - Li Wei-ling ; Press freedom (2) - Personal view progs ; Land arrival tax for tourists
2014-02-14
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"Hong Kong's press freedom, or lack of it, has become the major topic of the week. On Wednesday, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists described media freedom in Hong Kong as 'at a low p...
8. New voices in the media ; A vet school for HK? ; The voyage of the junk Keying
2014-02-21
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"Concerns about the freedom and independence of Hong Kong's media continue to grow. But even as the public is increasingly dissatisfied with mainstream or traditional media, new voices are appearing. ...
9. Attack on Kevin Lau ; Press freedom march ; Chinese investor emigration
2014-02-28
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"The attack on former Ming Pao chief editor Kevin Lau this week has increased concerns about Hong Kong press freedom and freedom of speech. According to his surgeons, Kevin Lau received six knife or c...
10. Is Hong Kong facing ultimate bankruptcy? ; What next in the Ukraine?
2014-03-07
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"Who would have thought that Hong Kong's economy would be compared with that of Greece? Yet this week a government study group announced we could be heading for the same kind of dire straits as that u...
