Quake tragedy must not be compounded LEADER The scale of the Sichuan earthquake could only be guessed at when it struck four days ago. Even now, the number of people killed, missing, injured and made homeless is a matter of ...
Treating Web staff like pimps makes law an ass LEADER Prostitution is not unlawful in Hong Kong, but the law places severe constraints on it. Nonetheless, our city tolerates a thriving sex industry. Sex workers have long advertised their ...
Looming presence China's influence is growing in Asia, at the expense of the US, but Washington still has a role to play, writes Ellen Frost.
Democracy, of sorts PETER KAMMERERA political party that calls itself "Democratic" would surely do its utmost to live up to its name. Being based in the US, which proclaims itself the staunchest upholder of democracy, should mean a redoubling of such efforts. Yet ...
Courage under fire BEHIND THE NEWSAttacked by the US and mauled in the Mideast, Al-Jazeera soldiered on. Now its English channel is reaching more Hongkongers, writes Liz Gooch.
What can be done to care better for the elderly? There seems to be a tendency, even in some articles in the South China Morning Post ("Homes idle as elderly die on long waiting list", May 12), to define the elderly as 60 and above.
Government must now come clean on reclamation errors The government's announcement not to appeal against the High Court decision regarding the Wan Chai temporary reclamation should have been accompanied by an apology to the public for the delay caused to the Central-Wan Chai bypass and to the ...
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