the view from fanling

Paula recently discovered that, as Hong Kong residents, we could apply for a card that would give us unlimited access to mainland China with...

When the ‘closed area’ status of the area northwest of Fanling was rescinded at the beginning of 2013, it was easy for Paula and I to check ...

When I heard news, a few days ago, of the explosions in the Chinese port city of Tianjin, I was immediately reminded of a similar incident t...

Last Sunday, a new chief executive was elected who will be in charge of running the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) for the ne...

Ask almost any European about the history of their continent, and they will at the very least be able to tell you about some of the past riv...

The Beijing Motor Show was being held while my wife and I were in Beijing. Of course, we didn’t attend, but I did come across an interesting...

When you approach the Great Wall of China at Badaling, near Beijing, you cannot fail to notice a number of very large plaques set into a ret...

When I was young, I can remember my local park featuring several small signs bearing the legend “keep off the grass”, but when I went to a b...

As someone from a semi-rural background, I’m a big fan of urban parks. Some, like Hyde Park in London and Central Park in New York, have an ...

Before I visit a place for the first time, I usually construct a mental map. This isn’t a conscious process, merely the synthesis of a serie...

This is not a discussion about collateralized debt obligations, credit default swaps or other larcenous forms of financial legerdemain. In f...

Very little that happens in Hong Kong makes the news internationally. Stories that do invariably have a sensationalist angle to them, such a...