ATR and Naumann in Asia
There are two promising free market events in Asia during the next two weeks, both of which I’ll have the pleasure of attending. The first is the annual meeting of the Economic Freedom Network Asia, a project of the Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit. This year’s meeting will be held in Siem Reap, home of the [...]
New Journal Ideas
This is a little late in coming, but readers interested in public policy guidance from a free market perspective should check out the Lion Rock Institute’s new quarterly journal, Best Practice. With its first issue still relatively warm off the presses, Best Practice carves out a unique spot in the world of ideas. Although it’s [...]
Centre for Free Enterprise in Guangzhou
I’ve just arrived back in Beijing from Guangzhou, where I sat in on one day of the Centre for Free Enterprise‘s “Free Market Challenger”, which offers a chance for 20 bright South Korean university students to travel to China and view the workings of its economy up close. Throughout the five-day program, students visited Korean [...]
Killing Competition to “Save Competition”?
Here’s a quiz for all aspiring politicians of the world: what would you do to bolster competition if your local market was already the most economically free and vibrant in the world? Most of us would probably answer “more of the same”, but for the technocrats in the Hong Kong government, the non-problem of competition [...]
Lion Rock Institute Wins Debate on Minimum Wage
The Hong Kong government is currently considering whether to introduce a minimum wage for the lowest paid, and as economic pressure’s rise, so does political pressure for this move. Recently the Lion Rock Institute (Hong Kong) was invited by the Civic Party of Hong Kong to take part in a debate on the minimum wage. [...]
CARE HK
Many countries look to Hong Kong a role model for a free economy. Unfortunately, it looks as though Hong Kong is trying to follow the path of China’s planned economy by introducing a comprehensive antitrust law, which will encourage more government corruption and less transparency. The Lion Rock Institute is working hard, to explain to [...]
The Pacific Rim Policy Exchange Conference
Americans for Tax Reform Foundation (ATRF), International Policy Network (IPN), Lion Rock Institute (Hong Kong), and Property Rights Alliance (PRA), cordially invite you to join with fellow market-oriented policy advocates in Hong Kong for the 2008 Pacific Rim Policy Exchange Conference. The goal of this networking conference is to provide a unique, centralized, high-quality forum [...]
