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The errors of 2015 continue to haunt the Vancouver housing crisis story

Should the media and academia come under scrutiny for their roles in enabling today’s affordability challenges?

What the Chinese scapegoaters didn’t know about Metro Vancouver’s housing boom or crisis

As Metro Vancouver’s housing prices surged to yet another record high, the public’s response today stands in stark contrast to what it was a few years ago.

Canada’s Chinese and China Questions loom over B.C.’s new museum

British Columbia’s Chinese community is facing some of the most difficult challenges in its 232-year history in Canada's westernmost province.

Hong Kong's Joshua Wong backs Black Lives Matter, risks wrath of U.S. conservatives

Republican senators Marco Rubio and Josh Hawley are among the U.S. lawmakers who've been outspoken advocates for Wong's cause.

Ng Weng Hoong: Xinjiang opens up Pandora’s box

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.

On David Eby's trail of embedded bombshells about money laundering

There are still huge parts of the B.C. economy that have not yet been examined as conduits for dirty cash.

Chinese students in North America caught in crossfire of deteriorating U.S.-China relations

Originally cast as a foundation stone for building cross-Pacific ties, they're now at risk of being seen as potential fifth columnists at worst, and as knowledge parasites at best.

Trump's Great Wall against China

The real reason for the U.S. and its allies to keep Huawei out of North America is to prevent the further rise of a long-term competitor.

Open letter to Attorney General David Eby on Sam Cooper’s "secret police study" story

Vancouver journalist Ng Weng Hoong would like to know if Attorney General David Eby knew of the existence of a secret police study on money laundering in local real estate before...

Recognition for Canadian war hero Frederick Lee and Crazy Rich Asians, 101 years apart

The people and circumstances for both milestones could not be more contrasting in narrating the continuing Chinese search for recognition and acceptance in mainstream North...