The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government just released its latest forecast for the economy. This year's growth rate was revised from 2 to 3.5 percent, to 1 to 2 percent.

To crack down the increased application of guerilla protests, the UK government has recently proposed a new public order bill to better protect the integrity of transport network and fuel supply in England and Wales.

On Monday morning, China announced that 15 out of 16 districts in Shanghai had now achieved a state of "zero-COVID", or in other words, community transmission had been broken. It comes amidst a phased reopening of certain businesses commences in the city.

The rule of law remains the cornerstone of Hong Kong's status as an international financial, trade and logistics center as well as a center for international legal and dispute-resolution services in the Asia-Pacific region. In the full implementation of "one country, two systems" and the Basic Law, Hong Kong's rule-of-law ranking has always been at the forefront of the international community, which proves that Hong Kong's rule of law has a solid foundation.

Visually speaking, the Johnny Depp, Amber Heard trial is like that mind-altering sequence in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. The bit where the astronaut gets hurled into an unidentified globule of flashing lights and color propelling us all on a journey through time and space.

It's the end of an era; the iPod is dead. 

The most striking recent example, was the shameless "Maidan coup" in Ukraine in 2014, which destabilized the country and set it on course to the tragic conflict we see today.

With the successful conclusion of the chief executive election on May 8, and having been awarded a record 1,416 votes from the Election Committee, or 99.2 percent of all votes, it signals universal support for the CE-elect, John Lee Ka-chiu.

Chief executive-elect John Lee Ka-chiu's election manifesto focused on four broad areas, one of which was education, in the form of "building a caring society and emphasizing youth development". Meanwhile, "enhancing the sense of belonging toward the country and the sense of national identity" was given a mention, before the issue of "Promoting the 'STEAM' (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) program".

The United States has a tradition of imposing trade tariffs to address bilateral trade imbalance: Washington did that to Japan; and has been doing it to China since former US President Donald Trump assumed power.

The just-concluded election of the sixth-term chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) has been widely recognized as a consolidation of the "patriots administering Hong Kong" principle and a new step toward democracy with Hong Kong characteristics.

Hong Kong is now at the critical juncture of pursuing prosperity after replacing chaos with stability. Chief executive-elect John Lee Ka-chiu, who won the sixth-term chief executive election with 99.2 percent of the Election Committee members' support on Sunday, has rekindled local residents' hope for a positive change of the status quo and confidence in sustainable development through innovation and reform.

The dust finally settled when John Lee Ka-chiu was successfully elected as the sixth-term chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, securing 1,416 — or a record 99.2 percent — of the valid votes cast by Election Committee members on Sunday.

In the past few days, the United States has made a very subtle change in "policy" regarding China or Taiwan region, which appears to be to negate public recognition of the "One China Principle" regarding the island.

The newly completed chief executive election has set the milestone for Hong Kong to move away from its roller-coaster ride over recent years, featuring the social unrest in 2019 and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.