Sunday’s election results that give pro-democracy representatives control of 17 of 18 District Councils show that Maggie Wong Shing-wah has plenty of company and gives a glimmer of hope for resolution of the conflict that seemingly ripped this great city’s social fabric to shreds.
Totally globalized native New Yorker and former broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a editor at large for Inside Asian Gaming, contributor to Forbes, columnist/correpsondent for Asia Times, and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about television news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook and Twitter @MuhammadCohen.