Nothing better exemplifies the Chinese people’s quest for freedom and democracy than the effort to free entrepreneur, publisher, and dissident Jimmy Lai, an outspoken foe of political repression who has languished in a Hong Kong jail almost continuously since August 2020. That’s the view of Fr. Robert Sirico, co-founder and president emeritus of the Acton…
Jimmy Lai Documentary ‘The Hong Konger’ Aims to Advance Mass Protests Against CCP Rule
A Photographer’s Life With Cats
Wilson Ng, once a long-time and loyal senior photojournalist who contributed to Apple Daily for 23 years, suddenly lost his favorite job. He was one of the hundreds of staff members who became unemployed when the business was shuttered last year. That evening, Wilson’s wife Doris, suggested he become a pet photographer. Wilson has owned…
Architect Founded Company That Upcycles Wood Into Exquisite Furniture and Art Decor
In September 2018, Super Typhoon Mangkhut (Ompong) battered Hong Kong with high winds and rain for hours. The Hong Kong government received about 15,000 reports of collapsed trees after the typhoon had passed through. Most fallen and damaged trees end up in landfills or rot on the spot. Ricci Wong Cheuk-Kin felt he had to preserve…
HK Photographer: The Beauty of Iceland, Greenland and a Sailing Captain’s Advice
Hong Kong photographer Celia Cheng took a trip to Iceland and Greenland to experience a new spark of life. Appreciating the photos of landscapes taken around the world by Cheng, many people think of her as a landscape photographer. She prefers to describe herself as a photographer who shoots “life.” “Life can include landscapes, people,…
Media Tycoon Jimmy Lai’s Ups and Downs With the CCP
The colorful life of former Next Media founder Jimmy Lai Chee-ying resembles a plot from a novel. He founded Next Media and Apple Daily, supported democratic movements, and changed the Hong Kong media ecosystem. Some people might feel that Lai is a big bad wolf in the media industry; they might think that he would do…
‘Cat’s Eye’ Street Cat Photographer Publishes a Photo Album to Restore the Innocence of Human Nature
In the bustling streets of Hong Kong, people walk everywhere, and all kinds of people are close to each other; but they always have an unconscious facade and seldom open their hearts to strangers. “When I was taking photos of people interacting with cats, I saw that people can drop their facades and get along…
All Will Be Lost When Hong Kong Becomes Xianggang
November 1, 2022
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“In July 2020, the implementation of the ‘National Security Law (NSL)’ no doubt officially turned Hong Kong into Xianggang and at the same time sent Hong Kong to the guillotine,” Professor Cheung Chan-fai, former head of the Department of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), said. As a septuagenarian, now 73 years…
Nathan Law’s Exile Is Proof of Hong Kong’s Democratic Decline
Born in the 90s, Nathan Law Kwun-chung never considered that he would be forced to leave his beloved Hong Kong; but that happened after he chose the path of fighting for freedom. Growing up in a poor family that emigrated from the mainland, Law’s mom moved to Hong Kong from China before she and her…
Young Hong Kong Photographer Captures Blue Tears and Wins Awards
Beginning his journey as a photography hobbyist At the age of 11, Hong Kong teenager Javan Lie has followed his father’s footsteps for the past three years to document the mysterious night sky and galaxy with a backpack full of heavy photographic gear. Hong Kong, a sleepless city, shines more bright lights than the stars…
Support Each Other in Times of Adversity
A gentle male voice with guitar accompaniment sang from the bar of this small restaurant in Hong Kong, and the audience was listening carefully. “If the world turns out not as you expected, Only then I realized that I don’t give up, And hold on to your love again and again, The storm will end,…
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