My recent articles for the South China Morning Post. To share news tips related to Hong Kong and China, please email me at joanna.chiu@scmp.com
Fashion Week has gone out of style 7/4/2012
On the opening day of Hong Kong Fashion Week yesterday – which is usually the busiest day of the fair – exhibitors sat at their empty booths, slowly eating their lunches with glazed expressions.
“This is our third year in a row participating, and it is definitely the worst year so far. There’s no one here,” said Sabrina Zhang Wei, a saleswoman for a Zhejiang textiles factory…
Exclusive: “CSL lawsuit turns the spotlight on Hong Kong’s roaming fees” 7/2/2012
When Ben Sargent went to Italy to attend a friend’s wedding and then to Dubai for a holiday last summer, his international phone calls totalled less than one hour. He came home to a HK$2,540 bill from CSL…
“Fans scrimp on Euro 2012 action” 7/2/2012
Soccer fans have been spending the early hours watching the Euro 2012 matches in Wan Chai’s bar district – but you would not have found them sitting inside sports bars…
“Dragonboat races aim to mark HK as sports centre” 7/2/2012
The annual Dragon Boat Carnival gets under way today and then again from Thursday to Sunday, bringing in more than 6,000 competitors from around the world for a series of races…
Vox Pop: “What does July 1 mean to you? What would you say to C.Y. Leung?” 7/2/2012
Ida Alvarez, 60, Overseas Domestic Workers’ Union: I am fighting for the rights of domestic workers in Hong Kong. I would like to ask C.Y. Leung to raise the minimum wage to HK$4,000 a month to match minimum wage standards of the International Labour Organisation, let qualified domestic workers apply for permanent residency and reduce our workdays to eight hours a day. I have been working in Hong Kong for 30 years, and I deserve the rights that other Hong Kong residents enjoy…
