Issue: September 09, 2006 (Archive)

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On a wing and a prayer
Jailing Ching Cheong for five years on charges of spying for Taiwan is quite bad enough but the response in some rather influential quarters has added to the enormity of the disappointment.

Fight terror or we perish
Five years after the 9/11 attacks ignited the war on terror, how are we doing?

Refreshing our learning
One knows one is getting older when one starts conversations with: "When I was your age ..." I had one of these middle-aged moments recently when my teenaged son returned home from the first day of school with the information that his school was now offering up caffe latte and panini. When I was his age - you see? - fish fingers were the highlight of the cafeteria week, and one could have any beverage one wanted as long as it was milk.

A tough job for Schwab
The business of the US Trade Representative is business. And I think Susan Schwab did a reasonably good job in Beijing last week.

Shady side of IT deals
There is a basic paradox inherent in what I do each working day: I can access information freely and write articles that can go around the world largely through having access to cheap computer technology. Much of it is made in the mainland, where many do not have the same access to information or to the same opportunities to voice their opinions.

Twin's peek hypocrisy
The putrid aroma of hypocrisy hangs heavily over the furor generated by publication of compromising photos of the Twins star Gillian Chung Yan-tung in Easy Finder magazine.

Heading for a hurricane
What can Hong Kong learn from Hurricane Katrina? More than, and somewhat different from, what you might think.

Facing up to the real facts
And then there were eight ...

Don't rule out collapse
In 2001, Gordon Chang predicted in his book The Coming Collapse of China that the Communist Party wouldn't survive this decade. Now the first decade in the 21st century is half gone, is the 85-year-old ruling party of China on schedule for a fall?

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