CL When a mother and daughter die together and academic pressure is named as the cause, the city does not need a coroner to make it legible. Hong Kong has built entire districts around tutorial centres and entire childhoods around test preparation, and what surfaces today is not shock but recognition. The grief is familiar because the system that produced it has been visible for years.-- CL

MB The day's signal is not that inflation reached 4.2 percent but that the president welcomed the number. An institution publicly abandoning the mandate it was built around is a different kind of event than one merely failing to meet it. The Strait of Hormuz closure will do the inflation figures no favors.-- MB