Insight & Opinion

The wrongs of the right-thinking approach to law

28 Mar 2013

Let's split a few hairs here. Note that Mr Zervos does not say the accused knew that he or she was dealing in the proceeds of serious crime, only that he or she knew the facts and circumstances...

Bio

Jake van der Kamp is a native of the Netherlands, a Canadian citizen, and a longtime Hong Kong resident. He started as a South China Morning Post business reporter in 1978, soon made a career change to investment analyst and returned to the newspaper in 1998 as a financial columnist.

12 comments

05:52AM

Comment, Insight & Opinion

My Take

Alex Lo

Qiao Xiaoyang conjures a democracy of exclusion

28 Mar 2013

Can you have one person, one vote while still backsliding on universal suffrage? The latest pronouncement by Qiao Xiaoyang seems to suggest this. The chairman of the National People's Congress'...

Bio

Alex Lo is a senior writer at the South China Morning Post. He writes editorials and the daily “My Take” column on page 2. He also edits the weekly science and technology page in Sunday Morning Post.

3 comments

03:30AM

Business, Comment, Insight & Opinion

Lai See

Howard Winn

Former CLSA analyst writes quit-and-tell-all book

28 Mar 2013

Daniel Tabbush, who for many years was CLSA's head of regional banking research, has published a...

Howard Winn has been with the South China Morning Post for two and half years after previous stints as business editor and deputy editor of The Standard, and business editor of Asia Times. His writing has also been published in the Far Easter Economic Review, the Wall Street Journal, and the International Herald Tribune. He writes the Lai See column which focuses on the lighter side of business.

06:31AM

Business, Comment, Insight & Opinion

Monitor

Tom Holland

BRICS bank will be a recipe either for moral hazard or redundance

28 Mar 2013

Among the overweening initiatives announced this week by the ill-assorted leaders of Brazil,...

As the writer of the South China Morning Post’s Monitor column, Tom Holland attempts each day to make sense of the latest developments in business, finance and economic affairs in Hong Kong and mainland China.

06:31AM

Comment, Insight & Opinion

Column

Hu Shuli

China's new securities regulator must continue on path of market reform

28 Mar 2013

Guo Shuqing's departure after 17 months in office at the China Securities Regulatory Commission ...

Hu Shuli is editor-in-chief of Caixin Media Company, editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine Century Weekly, executive editor-in-chief of the monthly journal China Reform and dean of the School of Communication and Design at Sun Yat-sen University. She founded CAIJING magazine, a business and finance review, in 1998.

03:30AM

Business, Comment, Insight & Opinion

Lai See

Howard Winn

Clive Palmer comes the iron man with Citic Pacific

27 Mar 2013

Relations between the Australian mining billionaire Clive Palmer and the Hong Kong-listed but...

04:32AM

Comment, Insight & Opinion

My Take

Alex Lo

Malaysian PM was ahead of his time

27 Mar 2013

Dr Mahathir Mohamad is having the last laugh. Rather than going cap in hand to the International...

7 comments

03:09AM

News, Hong Kong, Comment, Insight & Opinion

Public Eye

Michael Chugani

Patriot games with no clear winners

27 Mar 2013

Come on, people, wake up and smell the reality.

Michael Chugani is a Hong Kong-born American citizen who has worked for many years as a journalist in Hong Kong, the USA and London. Aside from being a South China Morning Post columnist he also hosts ATV’s Newsline show, a radio show and writes for two Chinese-language publications. He has published a number of books on politics which contain English and Chinese versions.

3 comments

06:00AM

Comment, Insight & Opinion

Column

Frank Ching

Time for Beijing to stop its media propaganda

27 Mar 2013

The "transcript" of an interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national security adviser of US...

Frank Ching opened The Wall Street Journal’s bureau in Beijing in 1979 when the U.S. and China established diplomatic relations. Before that, he was with The New York Times in New York for 10 years. After Beijing, he wrote the book Ancestors and later joined the Far Eastern Economic Review.

5 comments

03:09AM

Business, Comment, Insight & Opinion

Jake's View

Jake Van Der Kamp

HKRFU needs to rethink its Sevens ticketing policy

26 Mar 2013

As the Hong Kong Rugby Football Union asks for public money for a new stadium, it will provide...

7 comments

05:22AM

Editor's Pick

Hong Kong cannot continue with its wasteful ways

With our three landfills reaching capacity in 2019, the waste management strategies that successive governments have raised, but failed to implement, can no longer be ignored. Each is...

03:04AM

Today's Poll

Do you support the 'Occupy Central' movement?

Yes: 53%
No: 47%

28 Mar 2013

Insight

Help Hong Kong's hidden youths come out of their shell

The recent murder cases involving Hong Kong youths have undoubtedly left people shaken and caused many to question just what has gone wrong with our society. Discussions have primarily been about...

03:30AM

2 comments

Hong Kong buildings still unsafe after Fa Yuen fire

07:10AM

China's solar energy industry may see phoenix-like rise

07:11AM

Darker dangers ignored in Hong Kong's youth drug abuse figures

08:49AM

Myanmar needs an effective legal system, and so do its foreign investors

03:30AM

Talking points

03:30AM