I am prompted to write this column by the remarkable statement of a scholar in Hong Kong on a recent visit there that China was on the verge of bankruptcy. […]

A lifestyle audit is simply  “a study of a person’s living standards to see if it is consistent with his or her reported income”. Its purpose is to identify pointers […]

It was distressing to see “Western envoys” enthusiastically praising the President, Director of Public Prosecutions and Directorate of Criminal Investigations over the charging of officials over alleged corruption at the […]

“Family of missing youth seeks DPP’s help to find him” was a headline in Tuesday’s Standard. It is not clear who took him away, but the family says they identified […]

Reading the title, you might be tempted to say: “Some people want to find a constitutional angle to everything!” It is true that the Constitution cannot solve every social issue. […]

Transparency is a national value. In fact, ‘transparent’ or ‘transparency’ appears 13 times in the Constitution, in relation particularly to elections and management of public money, but also to land […]

People’s Constitution Nearly eight years after the enactment of the Constitution, the issue of its appropriateness has been raised. That Constitution was eventually adopted—after a long period of struggle, fighting […]

Until 2010, street protests were the preferred mode of expressing public outrage with just about everything. Demonstrators tested their resolve against the state as agitation turned into bloody confrontations due […]