OnePacificNews, March 9, 2021, Tuesday Ng Weng Hoong Yes, it is different this time. As Metro Vancouver’s housing prices surged to yet another record high (1), the public’s response today stands in stark contrast to what it was a few years ago. During the housing boom or crisis of the 2010s, politicians and opinion-makers angrily […]

By Ng Weng HoongOnePacificNews, September 22, 2020, Tuesday Part 1. British Columbia’s Chinese at a crossroads “A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives.”– Maira Kalman, American writer and artist British Columbia’s Chinese community is facing some of the most difficult challenges in its 232-year history in […]

By Ng Weng HoongOnePacificNews, July 20, 2020, Monday “WHAT DOES IT mean to be a friend of China?” On June 15, as University of British Columbia (UBC) professor Paul Evans pondered this question, Chinese and Indian soldiers were killing each other in a border clash that will do lasting damage to the bilateral relationship between the […]

By Ng Weng Hoong, OnePacificNews, June 15, 2020, Monday This is the final part of a two-part series examining the bias of the Canadian mainstream media in refusing to recognise the complaints of Chinese Canadians that Global News had published a false and misleading story with implications for the diaspora and the country’s race relations. […]

By Ng Weng Hoong, OnePacificNews, June 1, 2020, Monday This two-part series examines the bias of the Canadian mainstream media in refusing to recognise the complaints of Chinese Canadians that Global News had published a false and misleading story with implications for the diaspora and the country’s race relations. Part 2 is here Canada’s mainstream […]

May 19, 2020, Tuesday Chris BassettNational Director, Content & Editorial StandardsGlobal News | Corus Entertainment Dear Chris, Thank you for replying to my Open Letter of Complaint of May 5, 2020. Your letter affirms Global News’s support for Sam Cooper’s portrayal of Canada’s ethnic Chinese people as traitors. The portrayal, presented in the form of […]

By Ng Weng Hoong, January 28, 2020, Tuesday. Updated February 10, 2020. Its cover finally blown by major document leaks in late 2019, the Chinese government no longer denies that it has built a high-tech surveillance state to control the Muslim Uyghur population living in the country’s far western region of Xinjiang. Thanks to the […]