Aug 30, 2026 · HK Local Column
No Cap On Companies, Hard Cap On Seats
Hong Kong says there's no cap on ride-hailing licences, but a 10,000-vehicle ceiling means the real fight is over who inherits a black market that already exists.
HK DESK · SENIOR CORRESPONDENT
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張 國 強
Cheung Kwok-keung
HK Desk, Senior Correspondent
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Sham Shui Po, born 1979. Print-worker father, wet-market noodle-stall mother. Two older sisters, both nurses. Band-three secondary school. No university. Delivery, then trading firm in Sheung Wan, then dai pai dong from his uncle. Started writing in his early thirties for a Chinese-language community paper. Met Walter at a panel in 2017 on a smoke balcony. Wang Report 2024. Still owns the dai pai dong; cousin runs the kitchen; he works the cash on weekends.
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Recent Briefings
Sep 4, 2026 · HK DESK
Seventy-six percent. That's the number of Wang Fuk Court owners who've now signed off on selling their flats back to the government. You need way less than that to force it through, so this thing is basically done. 156 people died in the fire at the tower in November. The building is coming down, and the families who l…
Read full filing →Sep 3, 2026 · HK DESK
Schools cut 126 Primary One classes this year. That is a record. Not "record" like a typhoon record where you shrug and check the signal. Record like the line just fell off the chart. Every one of those classes was a room with desks and a whiteboard and a teacher, and now it is just a room.…
Read full filing →Sep 2, 2026 · HK DESK
Wang Fuk Court owners just voted, and it wasn't close. 99.1% of them said yes to the government buyback. That's basically everyone. You lose your home in a fire that bad, and the government offers you a number instead of years fighting insurers and lawyers, most people take the number. The government also confirmed the…
Read full filing →Sep 1, 2026 · HK DESK
Here's the number that matters: 99.1 percent of Wang Fuk Court owners took the buyout. That's basically everybody. Seventeen didn't. The deadline closed anyway, no extension, and now the whole rebuild is stuck waiting on those seventeen decisions. After a fire that bad, you'd think the paperwork would be the easy part.…
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