Pragmatic yes, but HK identity still in flux 10 years on
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For the Ngais, a regular Hong Kong middle-class couple married two years ago, the coming 10th anniversary of the former British colony's return to Chinese rule on July 1 means precious little.
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Hong Kong&#39;s benchmark stock index completed a second year of gains, its first consecutive advance since 1996. Banks and developers rose in 2004&#39;s final trading day on optimism a rebound in the property market will be sustained.
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Inside I.B.M., the issue of whether to stay in the personal computer business has been debated for a decade. The issue was put to rest last week.
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And recent history repeats itself.
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It wasn&#39;ta name. It belonged on a license plate. But Y4145 identified Bernard Hopkins for nearly five years. In some ways, it still does.
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British Olympic hopeful refuses to maintain 'polite silence' in face of China's human rights record
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Chinese President Hu Jintao, in Hong Kong to celebrate ten years since the end of colonial rule, was Saturday expected to face fresh calls for democracy in the former British territory.
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Given the contemporary issues and ideological stances adopted
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Comment is free: Marina Hyde: Finally, untrammelled by oversight, No 10's former residents are free to cash in on their name - like any other celebrity couple
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The ease of travel to the China  mainland since Hong Kong&#39;s handover in 1997 has drawn the  city&#39;s young people to a cheap and convenient playground just  across the border in Shenzhen city.
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The shelving of a huge public property sale is an embarrassment for Hong Kong but analysts say the incident shows the territory&#39;s legal system is intact and that its reputation
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HONG KONG - Fresh from election success, the leader of a pro-government party in Hong Kong said yesterday the time was ripe to revisit a Beijing-mandated anti-subversion Bill put on hold after half a million protesters poured into the streets to oppose it
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WASHINGTONâFifteen years after its birth, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum is increasingly dogged by an uncomfortable question: Is it any use?
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BusinessWeek Online - Malaysia has never aspired to be the freewheeling financial hub that Hong Kong and Singapore have become in Asia. For nearly 30 years, the country has been closed to all but a handful of foreign banks -- and they were mostly outfits like HSBC Bank Holdings PLC  and Standard Chartered Bank that had been there since colonial times. During the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, foreign banks pared back operations even more. ...
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When the British ruled Hong Kong, as pro-Beijing politicians are fond of pointing out, the territory&#39;s people had no direct influence over the way they were governed.
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Analysts in Hong Kong say China is signalling its intention to take a more active role in the territory's affairs.
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If incoming mail contains the word "identity" it goes to a mailbox I started in late 2004. It has over 7000 emails in it now. The majority of those are from the Identity Gang list. The Identity Gang got its name when it first met informally on the December 31, 2004 edition of Gillmor Gang. I've lost track of how many workshops and meetings and other exercizes in convergence we've had, but the progress continues to be amazing. I just looked at what Eric Norlin of IDG wrote here, then at what Scott Kveton of JanRain wrote here then at what Kim Cameron of Microsoft wrote here &#151; to pick just three out of countless posts, all connected somehow. You can see the progress in just one month. This observation comes in the midst of thinking about a form of  Vendor Relationship Management that has the same initials as CRM, but a different meaning: Creator Relationship Management. I would like to relate to creators in a better, less intermediated way.