Tony Henderson

Elsie Tu, an old-style human rights fighter and veteran Hong Kong politician who took on a mandate to fight for the underprivileged, died December 8. 2015, at the glorious age of 102. This former Urban Councillor moved to Hong Kong in…

There is a momentary sway in people’s political interest towards the Right, towards a conservative policy on immigrants and refugees mainly in Europe, as now seen in France with the wins of the political right-wing. Also in Europe, but in…

Very important to understand what’s going on today with Russia and the US!, says Alice Slater, as she shared a translation done by Sharon Tennison of the talk given by  Prof. Stephen Cohen (contributing editor to thenation.com) at the San…

It is always of benefit universally when people meet face-to-face, whether individual problems or international problems can better be resolved. Thus, COP21 is worth holding as an event but why are nation’s top people there, the presidents etc? Why not…

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Paris Climate Change Conference – November 2015 – The twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) and the eleventh session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP)…

Mention of the word diamond elicits images of wealth, an excess of it, besides the obvious beauty of the item itself thus the diamond trade could be dismissed as out of the normal reach of human rights activists in our…

 As the culture of war, which has dominated human civilization for 5,000 years, begins to crumble, its contradictions become more evident. This is especially so in the matter of terrorism. By David Adams, World Beyond War http://worldbeyondwar.org/a-culture-of-peace-is-the-best-alternative-to-terrorism/ What is terrorism?…

Henry Abramovitch – Interreligious Dialogue and Encounter by Milena Rampoldi, ProMosaik e.V. An interview with Dr. Henry Abramovitch, Israeli anthropologist and president of the Israel Institute for Jungian Psychology. We asked him questions about interfaith dialogue and about how to…

HK Magazine reporter Adrienne Chum penned an article titled: So You Think You Know Cantonese? in the October 14 issue this year, which tells of translator and etymologist Dr. Chapman Chen’s book, A Comprehensive Dictionary of Orthodox Cantonese Characters and Phrases.…