Opinion

Here in Hong Kong, we sure love our expensive pets, but it doesn't mean we love animals

Someday, the crisis at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant will end. But when? And how?

There's been virtually no reliable information coming out of Tripoli, but a source close to the Gaddafi regime I did manage to get hold of told me the already terrible situation in Libya will get much worse. Among other things, Gaddafi has ordered security services to start sabotaging oil facilities. They will start by blowing up several oil pipelines, cutting off flow to Mediterranean ports. The sabotage, according to the insider, is meant to serve as a message to Libya's rebellious tribes: It's either me or chaos.

It's never a good idea to name yourself Rhino, Spooky or even Colon; just be happy with what your mom gave you

What was so special about November 23 this year? Ask a fashion lover and you will know it was the launch date of Lanvin for H&M, a collaborated collection of clothes by these two brands. Ask me and I will tell you it was the day I witnessed Hong Kong people going crazy again.

We never get to see what we want to see on the big screen, because film distributors are out of touch with reality

Britain is in danger of being sucked into yet more multi-billion-pound EU rescue packages as the Irish bailout threatens to spiral out of control. Under the terms of a deal signed by Alistair Darling after Labour lost the May election, the UK can be required to offer guarantees to other EU countries until 2013. So if the chaos continues to spread through Europe, we could have to bankroll other ‘basket-case’ economies such as Portugal and even Spain.

THE gesture was meant by the territory’s chief executive, Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, to be a show of generosity on the part of Hong Kong’s government and its business titans. Instead, it has had the unanticipated effect of bringing together wildly disparate groups to blow a collective raspberry, throwing the plan into disarray. The fiasco underscores changing attitudes not just towards government paternalism, but towards Hong Kong’s once-lauded property tycoons.

GDP data can be a crude measure of performance, but the numbers give countries an idea of how they are doing and their position in the pecking order.

The world's most powerful woman will start coming into her own next weekend. Stocky and forceful at 63, this former leader of the resistance to a Western-backed military dictatorship (which tortured her) is preparing to take her place as President of Brazil.