Writers: Kent Ewing
From ‘Asia’s finest’ to ‘public enemy no.1,’ Hong Kong’s police force are in a paralysed state of confusion
Carrie Lam – you’re finished: Hong Kong’s extradition protests mark the end of the city’s latest puppet leader
Tiananmen, 30 years on: how a brutal massacre became a ‘crackdown’, then an ‘incident’
Political civility is an early casualty in Hong Kong’s extradition law row
Hong Kong’s extradition law proposal: unsettling at best and downright frightening at worst
We live in a connected world – so it’s time to drop the racist chopsticks jokes
Why Hong Kong’s young people are dropping out of the great debate on the city’s future
As Hong Kong’s public healthcare goes to pot, is it surprising that hospital doctors are doing the same?
Viva the Lion Rock Spirit: Singapore has the cushy life for expats, but Hong Kong has soul
A strange first for Regina Ip: a plan to control a real estate firm makes you a Communist?
Still the Heritage Foundation’s darling: Hong Kong has the freest poor people in the world
Thanks but no thanks! – Hong Kong’s autonomy was meant to entice Taiwan… now it’s a warning
Leung, Lam and Cheng: a legacy of arrogance that should have departed on the Royal Yacht
Caught in the crossfire: will Hong Kong be a victim of the trade war between the US and China?
Lost generation: Has idealism among post-Umbrella Movement youth fizzled in Hong Kong?
Time is running out for Hong Kong’s unique East-West culture and special freedoms
A 30-year plan to enrich 80-year-old building tycoons? Are they going to live forever?
How to feel pride in a nation committing cultural genocide against its minorities?
Hong Kong’s wealth gap is a much greater threat to its security than separatists
Express Rail Link: handy for trips to places without airports, slow and dear to anywhere else
Jasper Tsang’s proposal to formalise the role of the Liaison Office is unnecessary and provocative
Press for freedom? So much for Hong Kong media’s united response against China’s tyranny
Once Beijing’s advertisement for Taiwan, its treatment of Hong Kong is now a warning
Don’t be fooled – Liu Xia’s release is not a sign of China’s softening stance on critics
How Hong Kong’s police force lost the goodwill of the people
Holes in our history: today’s students could learn much from the 1967 riots
Why have so many Hongkongers developed amnesia over the Tiananmen massacre?
Smart card, dumb city: is Hong Kong laissez-faire, or just lazy?
Hong Kong’s shifting symbolism: forget the colonial flower, try the micro flat
Good riddance to Rodrigo Duterte – the president who makes Donald Trump look good
China’s global vision? A rosy future for us, and huge debts for everyone else
Youth commissions? Hong Kong should stop prosecuting and disqualifying young people to regain their trust
High Court ruling on ‘live-in’ rule guarantees further abuse of Hong Kong’s domestic workers
Clueless finance minister offers the usual budget pile of unspent cash and unsolved problems
UK’s Theresa May too busy winning trade deals with China to care about Hong Kong’s blatant erosion of freedoms
Maligned, befuddled and misunderstood: HKU’s Peter Mathieson exits just how he entered
A happy and prosperous New Year? Only for Hong Kong’s corporate and political elite
As Christmas decorations highlight inequality, what are Hong Kong’s officials doing about the poor?
Hong Kong may not yet be ‘another Chinese city’, but it’s feeling a lot like Singapore
Donald Tsang’s downfall is a tragedy, but it’s CY Leung who owes Hongkongers some answers
Xi Jinping’s vision of Hong Kong’s future? Just another Chinese city
A 5-point ‘protest protocol’ to renew civility and unity in the fight for Hong Kong democracy
Imagine Hong Kong with affordable housing and universal pension for all
Are young Hongkongers really being led astray? Or are they just exercising their rights?
Hong Kong should protect its core values, as the Communist Party’s only claim to legitimacy is destined to fade
How can Hong Kong’s courts, gov’t, and media be so deaf to the global chorus of criticism?
Hong Kong democrats must get smart about defending the city’s core values from creeping authoritarianism
The world’s freest economy? Just take a look at Hong Kong’s supermarkets, utility firms or taxis!
In praise of Hong Kong’s bungling, reluctant hero: Holden Chow
Beyond 2047: Will Joshua Wong live to see full democracy in Hong Kong?
Carrie Lam, tear down this fence and reopen Civic Square
Thanks for nothing: How Chief Executive CY Leung is poisoning successor Carrie Lam’s administration
Sexist columnists aside, Hong Kong still has far to go on gender equality
Hong Kong under Carrie Lam? Not quite the apocalypse, but bad enough
Donald Tsang faces jail over corruption, but the grand giveaway of Hong Kong freedoms is a greater crime
Congratulations to chief executive candidate John Tsang, the ‘lesser of two evils’?
Beijing does itself no favours by forcing the unpopular Carrie Lam upon Hongkongers
Has Hong Kong lost its conscience? The shunning of a pro-democracy icon: Anson Chan
Carrie Lam has shown she will exacerbate, not heal, Hong Kong’s deep political divisions
Why Hong Kong’s Chief Executive will be missed – or not
The government’s purge of the legislature is appalling – Hong Kong’s courts must stand firm
Ex-gov Chris Patten stood up for ordinary Hongkongers… if only his successors had done the same
Hong Kong’s oath row is so perfect for Beijing, they couldn’t have planned it better themselves
Beijing’s ruling amounts to a purge of dissident voices from Hong Kong’s legislature
US expats could have a hard time explaining this one: President Trump
The death of LegCo: Chaos expected as political storm edges closer to Hong Kong’s legislature
Enough puerile hijinks, lawmakers – it’s time to grow up
Hero in the west; unwelcome in Asia: Thailand’s downright ugly treatment of activist Joshua Wong
The refusal of banks to confront the Hong Kong gov’t on equal rights amounts to galling hypocrisy
Tears of a clown? CY’s demise may be upon us, but Hong Kong shouldn’t celebrate too soon
Scrap the Heung Yee Kuk: An out-of-touch mafia-like anachronism hindering Hong Kong’s development
Fight or flight: LegCo lessons in how to become a Hong Kong hero
Election guarantees heightened bickering and continued stalemate in Hong Kong’s LegCo
Independence, ‘thought crime’ and the Singaporification of Hong Kong
The end of CY? But change of leader will not solve Hong Kong’s fundamental problem
Decadence and decline at Hong Kong’s once-proud anti-corruption agency
‘Anyone But CY’? Hong Kong’s reviled leader and media tycoon Ricky Wong are virtual soulmates
July 1: Plenty for Hong Kong to celebrate… and plenty to worry about too
After a last-minute change of heart, bookseller Lam Wing-kee became a true Hong Kong hero
Lancôme saga: When politics gets in your perfume pot is it time to give up and go home?
Put petty political divisions aside, pick up a candle and remember the dead on June 4
Zhang’s short ‘Occupy Central’ was like the longer one: Nothing changed
The Force is with him: Thousands turn out to protect Zhang Dejiang
Bad, worse, much worse, worst: Your four choices for the coming chief executive election
CY Leung on press freedom: All mouth and no trousers
Independence advocates can express themselves without undermining HK’s right to free speech
Forget lost bags, the real scandal is how CY gave away our core values
Hong Kong must reject the paranoid paradox: Dare to exercise your freedoms and you may lose them
Out with the old: The political awakening of a new generation of Hongkongers
Defiant young Hong Kongers are bound to resist Beijing’s meddling and demand independence
No one believes the booksellers’ stories, but China has achieved its cloak-and-dagger aims
Let’s take Hong Kong back from the haters
Tsang’s budget offers conciliatory words, divisive measures
Mong Kok rioters may be playing right into the hands of their nemesis, Beijing
Pro-democracy voices should not be exploiting riots for political gain
As CY jets off to serve tycoons, he ignores devastating inequality and racism at home
Arthur Li’s rhetoric proves that opposition to his HKU Council appointment was right
Carrie Lam to retire after CY wrecks her once-stellar career
