Women wait on the platform at a metro station in Pyongyang, North Korea, May 11, 2008
on July 1, 2015
Women wait on the platform at a metro station in Pyongyang, May 11, 2008. Sim was there for The Straits Times, her first assignment in North Korea.
A Scientific Ethical Divide Between China and West
on July 1, 2015
Experts worry that medical researchers in China are stepping over ethical boundaries.
Dalai Lama at Glastonbury Music Festival
on July 1, 2015
The Dalai Lama praised the Pope's recent comments on climate change before Patti Smith and attendees sang "Happy Birthday" ahead of his 80th birthday
Samson Yuen
on July 1, 2015
Samson Yuen is a doctoral student at Oxford University and a research assistant at the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC). He researches Chinese politics with a focus on civil society, NGOs, and local governance. With his roots in Hong Kong, Yuen also studies the city’s politics and social movements and is co-editing a book on the Umbrella Movement. His articles have appeared in China Perspectives, The Diplomat, Twenty-First Century, Mingpao, The Stand News, Hong Kong Economic Journal, and Hong Kong Economic Journal Monthly. He is an occasional television commentator on Chinese politics. Prior to joining academia, Yuen worked as a management consultant and traveled between Hong Kong, China, and Southeast Asia. He holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago and an M.Phil. in Politics (Comparative Government) from Oxford University.
Edmund Cheng
on July 1, 2015
Edmund W. Cheng read politics and law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2002-2005 and obtained his MSc in comparative politics in 2007 and PhD in government in 2015, both from the London School of Economics. He is an assistant professor at the Department of Government and International Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University and a fellow of the Institute of Future Cities at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Before joining the academia, he worked in the manufacturing and voluntary sectors in China and Hong Kong.
Chung researches contentious politics, civil society, development studies, politics of cultural heritage and urban governance with a focus on China, Hong Kong and Malaysia. He has published articles in Political Studies, Social Movement Studies, The China Quarterly, Modern Asian Studies, International Journal of Heritage Studies, among others. He writes about arts and politics for Ming Pao, Hong Kong Economic Journal and Initium.
Chung is co-editing two books on Hong Kong politics and contentious politics. He is currently leading and co-leading three Research Grants Council projects that respectively examines the dynamics of activism in a hybrid regime, the institutional basis of voluntarism in newly industrialized societies, and implement the World Values Survey Wave 7 in Hong Kong.