Hong Kong — No two shows are the same for the London-based ensemble of performers, Showstopper. Improv (short for improvisation) and audience participation make sure of that. View extracts from their unique show on Tuesday, April 13 –  plus interviews with the actors — and view the...

HONG KONG – The Fair Trade movement may be small in Hong Kong but it is beginning to take off, said Anne McCaig, a leading activist in the movement to help small farmers in the third world. McCaig (pictured right) is CEO of Cafédirect, a company co-founded by the British charity, Oxfam, and other...

Hong Kong — Like many people who grew up in post-World War II Hong Kong, Christine Loh came from a family whose relatives were divided politically. Some supported the Communist Party of China (CCP); others espoused the Nationalist cause. For the majority of ordinary Hong Kong people, political...

Hong Kong – The numbers looked good. When Financial Secretary John Tsang stood up to give the annual budget speech,  he told the territory it could expect a GDP growth rate of between four and five per cent on the year in 2010-11 and outlined a series of give-aways totalling about HK$20 billion. But...

Hong Kong – Hong Kong’s poorest schoolchildren will receive subsidies to help them go on-line, Financial Secretary John Tsang said. Eligible families — those on welfare with children of primary and secondary school age — will be entitled to claim $1,300 for per family for broadband...

Hong Kong – The origins of this confrontation date back to the Sino-British negotiations on the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong to China. On December 19, 1984, Britain and China signed the Joint Declaration, setting out the terms of the return of sovereignty of Hong Kong to China in 1997....

Hong Kong – George Soros said financial bubbles are not  totally irrational, and investors can spot them early. “In the late nineties, during the internet bubble, I shorted some internet stocks after they broke,” he said, adding that the sector actually entered another high shortly afterward....

Hong Kong – George Soros called for better financial regulation and talked about the need to address the “systemic risk” in the market, a risk different from that faced by individual participants. “Global markets failed because global regulators didn’t do their jobs,” he said. But...