OnePacificNews, March 14, 2019, Thursday By Ng Weng Hoong in Vancouver, B.C. The Vancouver Sun’s veteran columnist on diversity and immigration, Douglas Todd, is among British Columbia’s best-known journalists. On March 8, he wrote (1) about China’s long reach into Canada, exercised through the rising population of Chinese students and journalists in this country. There’s […]

February 25, 2019, Monday Ng Weng Hoong Canadians’ opinion of China, on a downward trajectory over the last few years, may have hit a new low in the wake of the angry displays of Chinese student power at two university events in Ontario province early this month. A group of Chinese students campaigned aggressively to […]

OnePacificNews, January 17, 2019, Thursday Ng Weng Hoong Future historians reflecting on the current implosion in US-China relations should include a section on the phenomenon of the large group of young Chinese who have been coming to study in North America since the turn of the century. In 2018, more than 340,000 (1) Chinese nationals were registered […]

OnePacificNews, December 7, 2018, Friday Ng Weng Hoong, Twitter: @WengCouver Donald Trump is struggling to build a wall to stop Mexican and other migrants from entering the US, but the work on his other wall to keep China out is making rapid progress. Canada’s arrest of Huawei Technologies Co’s chief financial officer on behalf of […]

OnePacificNews, November 17 2018, Saturday Ng Weng Hoong StarMetro (story below) has finally published one of the most important but under-reported stories of the Metro Vancouver housing market of recent years. Subprime lending provided by alternative mortgage lenders (AML) has been a major factor fuelling the region’s housing bubble. Canadians who do not qualify for […]

OnePacificNews, November 11 2018, Sunday Ng Weng Hoong Canadian writer Terry Glavin is the latest commentator to mis-represent and mis-use Demographia, a survey that purportedly measures and ranks international housing affordability. In his October 31 commentary for the National Post, Mr Glavin refers to Vancouver as being “near the top of Demographia’s listings of cities […]

OnePacificNews, November 2 2018, Friday Ng Weng Hoong David Eby just gave a good speech about human rights, about how the British Columbia government must address “issues of discrimination” in “creating a more inclusive, just society.” At the same time, the province’s Attorney General, more than any other politician in British Columbia today, has put […]

Ng Weng Hoong OnePacificNews, October 19 2018, Friday Foreign Policy magazine has published a commentary, Nowhere to Run in Xi’s China, about how Beijing’s promotion of its President and his teachings has reached deep into every corner of the country. The author, Edward Cavanough, raises points that are all true. But it’s incomplete and is in […]

Ng Weng Hoong OnePacificNews, October 15 2018, Monday A week after US President Donald Trump pushed through a new North America trade agreement, China announced the arrest of yet another senior official on suspicion of taking bribes. The events don’t seem related but Beijing’s handling of Meng Hongwei’s arrest will underline why reducing China’s involvement […]

OnePacificNews, October 6 2018, Saturday Ng Weng Hoong It’s been over three months since British Columbia’s attorney general, David Eby, released his sensational Dirty Money (1) report claiming Metro Vancouver’s housing market is being driven by casino-laundered money and the deadly opioid trade. Former Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer Peter German, commissioned by the […]