Hong Kong, Hong Kong, will you ever have peace?

You have been on roller coaster, through tribulations and trials, climbed to high achievements and plunged with SARS into depression…You have learnt from the good, the bad and the inevitable. Although among you, there are conflicting views and dissenting ideas, but you have never given up for the wellbeing of your people. You are resilient,…

Shifting winds–October in Germany

I sit in front of the window watching the shifting winds coming, pulling the branches and cutting the leaves as they go from one end to the other. It is October in the northern island of Germany; it’s when the seasons hand over the spirit of life, like in a race of relay, from one…

Tiananmen Square memorial

Tiananmen Square Massacre Anniversary—The Fourth of June

For the Chinese, the fourth of June is a day not to be forgotten. It marked the fervent aspiration for human rights and freedom when the university students set up tents and staged a large scale of protest in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. But on the fourth of June in 1989, as the tanks were…