The Conversation interviews Joseph Torigian, Assistant Professor of International Service, American University. March 11, 2022, Friday Russia has few friends in the international community following its invasion of Ukraine. But China, which shares a 4,300-kilometer border with Russia, is among the handful of nations that has refused to condemn Vladimir Putin’s actions, while criticizing the […]

An interview with Darren Byler on his latest book, “In the Camps: China’s Hi-Tech Penal Colony” OnePacificNews, December 13, 2021, Monday By Ng Weng Hoong @WengCouver There are two Xinjiangs in the far western region of China today. One is the land of detention camps, torture, and cultural cleansing. The other is the promised land […]

OnePacificNews, October 8, 2021, Friday. Twitter: @WengCouver It’s been over a year since China started flexing its economic muscles to try bend Australia’s political will over their increasingly bitter bilateral disputes. This was in response to Australia accusing its biggest trading partner of the following: Interference with its domestic politics; Not being truthful about the […]

Ng Weng Hoong, OnePacificNews, May 27, 2021, Thursday, Updated June 3, 2021 Two prominent Chinese Canadians in Vancouver said journalist Sam Cooper failed to verify his information before accusing them of lobbying for Beijing’s interests in their adopted country. Senator Yuen Pau Woo (1), who represents British Columbia, and Ding Guo, a leader in Vancouver’s […]

OnePacificNews, June 2, 2020, Tuesday Heavily backed by politically conservative Americans, the Hong Kong independence movement may become collateral damage from the spreading Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests that have engulfed the United States for over a week. Anti-racism protests along with riots and looting have hit many major US cities since George Floyd, a […]

By Ng Weng HoongOnePacificNews, May 27, 2020, Wednesday, updated May 31, 2020 Race relations in Metro Vancouver face difficult challenges ahead amid a worrying surge in anti-Chinese and anti-Asian racist attacks with the COVID-19 pandemic. Last week, Georgia Straight editor Charlie Smith rejected an invitation to be interviewed on the popular MetroVancouver podcast, ThisIsVanColour (1). […]

From: Chris Bassett <Chris.Bassett@globalnews.ca>Date: Friday, May 15, 2020 at 2:57 PMTo: Weng <weng@energyasia.com>Cc: Jill Krop, Christopher Pang, Chethan P. LakshmanSubject: RE: Letter of Protest: Globals News, April 30, 2020 story on United Front groups, by Sam Cooper Dear Mr. Ng, This letter was forward to myself for a response. Please find this attached. Sincerely, Chris […]

By Ng Weng HoongOnePacificNews, April 6 2020, MondayWord count, minus headline and footnotes: 2,200. Updated April 7. There is little doubt that China’s Wuhan city with a population of 11 million was the main platform for the global spread of the new deadly Covid-19 disease. Located in the strategic centre of the country, Wuhan is […]

By Ng Weng Hoong, March 9, 2020, Monday Word count: 1,728, minus headline and footnotes This has the feel of an opening scene from a novel by medical thriller writer Daniel Kalla himself: a gathering of book club members on a chilly Vancouver evening to focus on deadly contagious diseases. As they await his arrival, […]

Ng Weng Hoong, September 9, 2019, Monday Word count minus headline and footnotes: 2,040 A seemingly innocuous parking dispute between a young Chinese mother and an elderly white woman in a Richmond, British Columbia mall recently sparked a bizarre episode in Canadian race relations. Amy Xu captured part of the August 23 incident (1) on […]