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The Hongcouver blog is devoted to Vancouver's hybrid culture with Hong Kong and growing relationship with mainland China. Author Ian Young is the SCMP's Vancouver correspondent and former International Editor, who has won or shared awards for excellence in investigative and human rights reporting, and the HK News Awards Scoop of the Year.
Richmond is just 30km (19 miles) from the US border. But its pandemic performance might as well be on a different planet.
Canadian protesters worry they will be arrested if they return to Hong Kong. Some go to great lengths to conceal their identities from authorities and keep their activities secret from family members.
Covid-19 data showing Chinese-dominated Richmond is Vancouver’s least infected area could have undermined racist sentiment – but it was suppressed for months.
British Columbia’s health officer Dr Bonnie Henry has been a beacon of calm authority amid the Covid-19 outbreak – but some doctors want her to get tough.
Photos of British Columbians gathering in big numbers at Kitsilano Beach and Whistler show they have much to learn about social distancing.
The Hongcouver Blog: A much-shared photo said to show panic buying in the Vancouver satellite of Richmond wasn’t even taken in Canada – but it fuelled real panic buying in the region
For weeks, China’s embassy has been telling people to avoid crowds in Canada, while local authorities blame online mischief for the woes of Chinese restaurants
There’s nothing particularly funny about the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak – but some Canadians find Asians in face masks to be the height of ludicrousness, ignoring the trauma Sars inflicted on a generation of Hongkongers.
In contrast to his churlish assessment of Vancouver, Westbank’s Ian Gillespie has ridden the wave of internationalism and foreign money that defines the city today.
The rivals sat together for almost three hours, trying to understand how the other came to such wildly different views about Hong Kong’s unrest to their own
- A Taiwan farmer’s son, Wu emigrated to Canada with his mother as a child and, with her support, found his calling early sewing garments for his doll collection
- After talking his way into the fashion industry, Wu dressed Michelle Obama and other celebrities. He reflects with Kate Whitehead on his incredible journey
Meng’s lawyer says no loan fraud could have occurred, but the judge in her extradition case responds that risk is inherent to every loan transaction.
Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou hopes to shed the guards who surround her under US$7.8 million bail conditions. The court was told of Meng’s life in Vancouver, including high-end private shopping, and a Christmas dinner that booked out entire restaurant.
Canada’s plan to cool its red-hot property market by taxing phantom foreign homebuyers next year could upset the industry recovery and further erode international demand.
A judge ruled Huawei’s chief financial officer can introduce new evidence from her PowerPoint presentation to HSBC, in her fight against extradition to the US.
A Vancouver judge hears potentially sensitive evidence that Canadian government lawyers want withheld, on grounds including national security. Meng’s lawyers hope the evidence will bolster a case that she is the victim of an abuse of process.
When Anthony Bourdain featured a street food stall in Vietnam, it inspired Michael Tran to visit the country of his parents’ birth. He met the stall’s owner, adored her cooking, and has opened a restaurant serving her food in Vancouver.
Oei Hong Leong’s unproven lawsuit says Canada’s Concord Pacific tried to thwart efforts to find alternative partners to develop trophy site.
Downing France, Fiji and South Africa on their way to a bronze medal at the Canada Sevens this past weekend, the squad is on the rise
The fraud charges are a ‘pose’ designed to disguise a case really about US sanctions on Iran that are rejected by ‘the rest of the civilised world’, lawyer says, before judge reserves judgment and adjourns proceedings.
Some protesters said they were paid to take part in what they were told was a music video or professional film shoot – but to their surprise discovered the rally related to an actual court case
Tycoon Chen Mailin, once a member of China’s top political advisory body, is revealed in a lawsuit as the new owner of the 213-room Metropolitan Hotel Vancouver.
Vancent Zhu, a lonely dissenter against a flash mob by Hong Kong protest supporters near Vancouver, has previously protested in potentially hostile waters, sailing to the disputed Diaoyu Islands to assert Chinese territorial claims in 2006.
A Hong Kong-style Lennon Wall in Richmond was torn apart on China’s National Day by counterprotesters dressed in designer clothes who threw money at opponents. The building and destruction of the wall was monitored by a police undercover operation – apparently unseen by protesters
The celebrity democrat, broadcaster, media tycoon and ex-legislator returned to Vancouver to live for good eight months ago. But he promptly ended his 26-year Vancouver radio show amid the Hong Kong unrest, tired of trying to win over patriotic Chinese he fears find him ‘disgusting’.
Foreign investors, including those from Hong Kong and mainland Chinese, largely stayed out of commercial real estate in Vancouver, Canada’s second-largest investment market, in the first half of 2019 amid sinking home prices in the city.
Third white paper in five months on controversial policies in the region says there have been no terror attacks for three years as a result of programme, in latest response to international criticism.
Known for its embracing of outdoor culture, Vancouver has proved fertile ground for the building of these five internationally known brands, which have in turn helped shape the way that Vancouverites see their environment.
