By Ng Weng Hoong, August 13, 2019Word count minus headline and footnotes: 2,008 British Columbia (BC)’s emerging liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry may have just shone a small light into the long dark tunnel enveloping the bilateral relations between Canada and China. Amid the continuing outpouring of bad news and bad blood between the two […]

PART 1 OF 2-PART SERIES OnePacificNews, February 4, 2019, Monday, 11.45 am Pacific Time By Ng Weng Hoong Canada’s troubled ties with China could be headed for another blow-up in the coming weeks to add to the Huawei political crisis that is still unfolding in Ottawa. The president of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) who […]

OnePacificNews, December 29 2018, Saturday Ng Weng Hoong, Twitter: @WengCouver More than five years on as communist China’s most powerful leader since founder Mao Zedong, Xi Jinping has given the world a full view of his ‘soft power’ strategy to win friends and influence people. On the foreign policy front, it is mostly about using […]

OnePacificNews, December 6, 2018, Thursday Twitter: @WengCouver US President Donald Trump, the nemesis of China and so many other countries, has proved enduringly popular with the Chinese people. On Weibo, he’s frequently mentioned in a positive light. This has been one of Trump’s standout paradoxes since he started his run for the White House job […]

OnePacificNews, November 26, 2018, Monday Twitter: @WengCouver Malaysians delivered a political earthquake last May when they voted in a new government to replace the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition that had been in power since the country gained independence in 1957. The people were seemingly so scandalised by the level of corruption under the nine-year rule […]

OnePacificNews, November 16, 2018, Friday The Singapore government is making plans to promote its next generation of leaders to eventually succeed Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and senior members of his cabinet. Of late, it’s not been going too well for the 66-year-old leader who has been in office since 2004. Concerns over his health […]

(OnePacificNews, October 24 2018, Wednesday) — China’s Vice President Wang Qishan is in Israel this week to boost bilateral ties and learn about the Start-Up Nation’s innovation culture and the reasons behind its technological prowess. The two countries have seen a blossoming in economic ties and people exchange since the ambitious President Xi Jinping took […]

(OnePacificNews, October 16, 2018, Tuesday) — StarMetro yesterday published a front-page story about an alleged vote-buying scandal to “encourage” Metro Vancouver residents to vote ethnic Chinese candidates in the October 20 civic election. Writing in Mandarin on WeChat, someone at the Canada Wenzhou Friendship Society had made a ‘transportation subsidy’ offer of $20 to boost […]

OnePacificNews, October 7, 2018 * In a rush to blame foreign money, BC risks driving away much-needed capital. Part one of two. The law of unintended consequences When Chinese national Jing Li bought a Burnaby townhome in 2016, she quite reasonably thought she’d be treated like anyone else. Instead, the University of Saskatchewan student was […]

OnePacificNew, October 6, 2018 * In a rush to blame foreign money, BC risks driving away much-needed capital. Part one of two.  Despite the slew of new taxes and anti-demand measures launched by the province and the city, Vancouver’s housing prices have not fallen to “affordable” levels. The public is frustrated. In two recent surveys, Insights […]