Author: Michelle Ng

I'm Michelle Ng (吳若琦), an Oxford-educated bilingual political writer and English writing coach based in Hong Kong. I'm currently an English columnist for Apple Daily and Ming Pao, and a Chinese columnist for 眾新聞. I have written for Hong Kong Free Press, The Wall Street Journal and The Vancouver Sun.

by Michelle Ng February 20, 2021 0

Politics

Putting on the mainland thinking cap

Management consultant-turned-commentator James Quan (全軍) may have gotten himself out of China, but getting China out of him has provedContinue Reading

by Michelle Ng February 15, 2021 0

Thoughts on Writing

Setting the scene

The scene is to be filmed in a diner in Los Angeles, but the story is set in Manhattan. Solution?Continue Reading

by Michelle Ng February 14, 2021 0

中文文章

「理想的年代，美麗的人」

「你真像剛從片場走出來啊！」大街上有陌生人跟我說。

by Michelle Ng February 14, 2021 0

Politics

Democracy dies in darkness

To date, of all the lawsuits related to the 2020 Presidential Election whose merits the courts have ruled on, DonaldContinue Reading

by Michelle Ng February 12, 2021 0

Politics

A beauty who aged like fine wine

It was the mother of a primary school classmate – a woman of uncommon good looks – who gave meContinue Reading

by Michelle Ng February 12, 2021 0

Politics

Man cannot live on bread alone

“You hold an advanced degree from a prestigious university, yet your work duties are not much different from what FilipinoContinue Reading

by Michelle Ng January 31, 2021 0

All the News That’s Fit to Print

There are those who find it incomprehensible that Mary Magdalene, after discovering the tomb in which Jesus is supposed toContinue Reading

by Michelle Ng January 31, 2021 0

Politics

The skinny on the Bauhinia Party

For too long, we had grown accustomed to seeing the CCP appoint those with questionable academic credentials as legislators andContinue Reading