Musings on Life in Hong Kong

Students in Hong Kong are some of the hardest-working in the world. But I just found that students in China work even harder. During the e...

Jared Diamond, in his bestseller “Collapse”, described in fascinating detail how the leaders of some declining societies behaved. Easter Isl...

In the middle of July a colleague and I took 10 of our students at the PolyU to a city in Hubei for a week. There we joined another group f...

The 1 st July March has become a Hong Kong tradition since that first one in 2003, as a popular way to voice dissatisfaction with the gov...

Flag Day is a unique Hong Kong tradition. On a Flag Day, typically a Saturday, thousands of mostly young people go on the streets to sell f...

I was jogging along a footbridge running a highway flyover when I noticed a strong odor of paint thinners. Then I noticed 2 workers removing...

Many people say we should move on, either forget about June 4 th totally, or put it out of our minds and wait for history to draw the concl...