[RTHK] Hong Kong Connection: Next Station, Sheung Shui 鏗鏘集:下一站.上水(英語)
The meteoric rise of consumerism in mainland China in recent years has brought dramatic changes to Sheung Shui on the Hong Kong side of the border. The town has become a bootlegging hub.
Producer: Clara Li
Video published on February 7, 2013. Publisher: RTHK 香港電台.
Liu Xiaobo, the famous Chinese scholar, dissident and Nobel laureate, is dead. He frequently said China was in need of a moral giant. Little did he realise that for numerous Chinese, he was that very giant himself.
Video published on November 24, 2017. Publisher: RTHK 香港電台.
If house values in Hong Kong have been rising for the past few years, then a bigger surprise would be the price of parking spaces, which have grown much faster than homes in some areas. The car parking space in Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, was sold at 6 million in June. It has become the most expensive parking space in the history of Hong Kong. The sky-high price is comparable to that of residential units.
What is the reason behind the speculation in the parking spaces? Some investors said that since the Hong Kong government launched heavy stamp duty in property market, the funds were transferred to car spaces. As a driver, our case Mr. Wong said that parking spaces are in tight supply in the territory, and the shortage of private car parking spaces is particularly severe. For instance, he and more than 500 people have to queue up, before dawn to apply for renting monthly private car parking spaces in a government car park every month.
Last year, the Police have issued 1.84 million "fixed penalty notice" to combat the illegal parking situation. But it seems that the provision of parking spaces is still a problem to the city. It all comes down to supply and demand. Can it be solved with better government town planning?
Video published on December 28, 2018. Publisher: RTHK 香港電台.
There is undeniably a shortage of land in Hong Kong. For development, the Government has been requisitioning farmland in the New Territories. Some people are happy but others are not.
Producer: Kwong Chui-kuen
Video published on January 3, 2015. Publisher: RTHK 香港電台.
Hong Kong Connection looked into the footage filmed by different media at Prince Edward MTR station on 31 August to see the appropriateness of the police's action. It also sourced a group of citizens affected by tear gas and worked with chemical engineers to test how much toxin left around residential areas.
Video published on November 1, 2019. Publisher: RTHK 香港電台.
2018 marks the 40th anniversary of China’s Reform and Opening (gaige kaifang) in 1978. Since then, China is an emerging economic power, and Shenzhen "Dafen Oil Painting Village" can be one of the miniatures of the whole development of China. Like most of the world factories in China, peasant-turned oil painters were exploited by entrepreneurs, yet after 40 years of development, they tried to transit from simply making copies of iconic Western paintings to creating their own authentic works of art, emblematic of the journey that China is going through, from ‘Made in China’ to ‘Created in China’. Meanwhile, the story of Dafen also put to light on how the government only focuses on economic development but neglecting human rights and freedom of the citizens while artists would like to fight for freedom of expression and speech with many difficulties.
Video published on December 14, 2018. Publisher: RTHK 香港電台.
Controversy has once again erupted in Hong Kong over the Executive Council’s decision not to grant Hong Kong Television Network a broadcasting licence. There is a demand to know how the decision was arrived at and there is the question: Who really is the loser?
Producer: Paul Lee, Dora Choi & Fanny Kwan
Video published on December 5, 2013. Publisher: RTHK 香港電台.
The Occupy Movement in Hong Kong, known also as the Umbrella Movement, is over. The protesters are gone and the streets have been cleared, but few would believe we have seen the final act.
Video published on January 15, 2015. Publisher: RTHK 香港電台.
Many in Hong Kong are making an effort to ensure that the June 4th Incident in Beijing 25 years ago will not be erased from history. They are doing so for the sake of Hong Kong.
Video published on November 6, 2014. Publisher: RTHK 香港電台.