Previous Columns

Hong Kong airlifts hikers to hospital for free when the heat gets them, but the new gig-worker injury law won't cover a rider felled by the same heat.

A Central fertility clinic mixed up embryo test samples for two couples, and the real scandal is a watchdog with no teeth, not one lab's bad week.

Hong Kong certified its first legal subdivided flats this week, but at the current pace the whole scheme will price out the very tenants it was built to save.

The undamaged tower at Wang Fuk Court left the buyback deal faster than the burnt ones, which tells you this was never really about fire damage.

The 85.6 percent signing rate on the Wang Fuk Court buyback looks like a success story, but the first-come priority system has quietly turned fire survivors into competitors for the same flats.

The government just paid 1,600 Wang Fuk families up to HK$10,500 a square foot, right as flippers creep back citywide, and that timing alone should make you squint at the recovery story.

HK Electric's 33.9% fuel charge hike lands on summer heat demand precisely because the billing mechanism was always designed to delay bad news, not absorb it.

A 224-page poverty framework released June 18 did not reach the Lai King couple found unconscious with no welfare contact record two days later.

Hop On Management has missed two court-upheld deadlines to convene Wang Fuk Court homeowners while 1,984 displaced households face a June 30 buyback cutoff they cannot collectively scrutinize.

May's home-sales-value surge is a wealth-tier event; the secondary market where most HK families buy has not moved with it, and Beijing's capital controls are the reason.

The government's proposed 10,000 ride-hailing permits and CLP's 5.4% June fuel increase land on the same operators, who are still paying for the market they expected to keep.

Four units certified from a backlog of 110,000 illegal flats, as secondary prices are forecast to rise 11% this year: the owners holding unregistered paper are watching a recovery they cannot access.

Hong Kong's 5.9% Q1 growth is real, IMF-endorsed, and politically settled; it has not reached the credit windows and minimum-order thresholds where small operators run their calculations.

Hong Kong printed 5.9 percent GDP growth for Q1 and raised its inflation forecast in the same week; both numbers are accurate, and they reach different addresses.

Hong Kong's 5.9% Q1 growth and the government's inflation forecast revision arrived in the same week; they do not describe the same households.

The operators who gain from the May toll cut are the same families financing university for children entering a job market down sixty percent.

S&P forecasts 8-10% home price growth while New World moves to sell $2 billion in assets, leaving mass-market buyers with two stories that do not add up.