Sai Kung to open up beauty spots for weddings
Jasmine Wang, at SCMP City 3, on Tuesday 4th October, 2006 To open up public places for wedding ceremonies will bring more convenience for the couples and more business opportunities in the district, said district council member Raymond Ho Man Kit. Mr Ho said Sai Kung district now had aContinue reading>
Subject Line: Closing 2006 – For Friends of The Lion Rock Institute
Andrew Work (18 December 2006) Chers Amis, At year end, we often take a moment to reflect on what has been and what will be. I will indulge in this exercise with a short message on behalf of The Lion Rock Institute. It has been a year ofContinue reading>
NPC delegate Sit blasts Friedman
A veteran delegate to the National People’s Congress has hit back at a recent editorial by Nobel Prize-winner Milton Friedman, calling the American economist’s opinions on Hong Kong’s laissez-faire policy unwelcome and misguided. Jonathan Cheng – Wednesday, October 11, 2006 A veteran delegate to the National People’s Congress has hitContinue reading>
Tsang `laissez-faire' row grows
Jonathan Cheng – Friday, September 15, 2006 The apparent abandonment of Hong Kong’s laissez-faire ideology is quickly growing into a crisis of confidence, with one prominent party leader demanding the chief executive fully explain what he meant when he said that “positive nonintervention” was dead – and had been forContinue reading>
Suits and ties demonstrate on opposite side of divide
Jonathan Watts in Hong Kong – Friday December 16, 2005The Guardian It was billed as a capitalist counterbalance to the anti-free trade protests that grabbed the headlines at this week’s WTO talks in Hong Kong. Fed up by the attention given to Korean farmers, Filipina Marxists and the rest ofContinue reading>
Free trade supporters hit back (Telegraph)
Monday 14th August, 2006 Free trade supporters hit backBy Richard Spencer in Hong Kong (Filed: 16/12/2005) Free trade hit back outside Hong Kong’s World Trade Organisation talks yesterday, mounting a small but cogently argued “anti-anti-globalisation” demonstration. While Korean farmers, Indonesian fishermen and international Marxists rallied in favour of protecting marketsContinue reading>
Demonstrators call for removal of trade barriers
(14 August 2006) The Freedom to Trade (F2T) coalition staged a peaceful demonstration this afternoon calling for governments to remove barriers to trade throughout the world. The demonstration involved members of the F2T breaking chains and tearing down walls, representing the many barriers to trade imposed by our government, trappingContinue reading>
Group seeks global freedom to trade
Leslie Kwoh – Friday, December 16, 2005 As the South Korean farmers launched their third day of protectionist protests, a more subdued group of free marketeers demonstrated on the other side of the harbor. Ten members of the Freedom to Trade Coalition – comprising about six organizations representing Ghana, India,Continue reading>
At the WTO: Freedom to Trade Rally Gets The Message Out
Saturday 12th August, 2006 Media Coverage of Freedom to Trade Rally December 15th saw a number of supporting organisations come together to support the cause of free trade. The Lion Rock Institute, The International Policy Network, The Liberty Institute (New Dehli), Imani: The Centre for Humane Education (Ghana), the EvianContinue reading>
After the WTO: The Violent Enemy Within
Saturday 12th August, 2006Unions out to enrich themselves The recent turmoil at Wai Hong Cleaning and Pest Control is not a government-outsourcing problem. Nor is it an example of exploitation or of outsourcing resulting in underpaid workers. The problem is exploitation by Hong Kong unions that seek to recreate theContinue reading>