Apple Daily says there have been "numerous mishaps" and "no outstanding achievements" during Mr Ma's term.
Apple Daily and Want Daily also see a geopolitical "China-US tussle" behind the dispute.
Hong Kong's Apple Daily is dismayed at a big "military bloc" in the NPC.
Apple Daily, published by Lai (see "At It Again"), the analyst calculated.
In Apple Daily, politicians and commentators in Hong Kong commend Lady Thatcher's success in ensuring the territory's smooth handover.
Lai's Apple Daily, a primary platform for the Democratic Party, regularly takes on the Li family - and the Hong Kong government.
In other Japan-related news, Hong Kong's Apple Daily says former ambassador to Japan Wang Yi is tipped as China's new foreign minister.
Over in Hong Kong, Ming Pao and Apple Daily highlight how Mr Wen made no mention of political reform in his last report.
His Apple Daily was introduced in 1995 and has grown remarkably since then to challenge an entrenched and politically well-connected group of daily newspaper publishers.
In a separate article, Apple Daily also reports that about 100 people went to visit Miss Lin's tomb in the eastern city of Suzhou on Monday.
Hong Kong's Apple Daily notes that this was the first time that the Chinese military had revealed an alleged potential collision between Chinese and Japanese aircraft.
Meanwhile, internet users are blaming air pollution on NPC deputy and Hangzhou mayor Shao Zhanwei's death from a heart attack in Beijing yesterday, Apple Daily reports.
Hong Kong's Apple Daily notes that Sina Weibo, a microblog service, temporarily blocked searches for keywords such as "Zhu Ling", "Sun Wei" and "thallium poisoning" last week.
Apple Daily praises the court for "standing firm" against the Hong Kong government's attempt to go through the "backdoor" by asking it to seek an interpretation from Beijing.
"The message implied by this personnel list is that the people's congress system still 'has a long way to go' in moving towards democratisation, " the Apple Daily laments.
Taipei's Apple Daily reports that a 72-year-old woman was crushed to death by a collapsed wall and 86 people were injured during the magnitude-6.1 earthquake in central Taiwan yesterday.
According to a report in the Chinese newspaper Apple Daily, his assets grew to become so vast and widely dispersed that Chen began having trouble tracking them some years ago.
FORBES: Another Day, Another Billionaire's Heirs Head To Court
Hong Kong's Apple Daily welcomes Fu Ying's "firm and graceful, noble and elegant image", but says she disappointed the outside world with "shadow boxing" or stonewalling on political reform.
Despite the rare show of openness, political commentator Willy Wo-lap Lam tells Apple Daily that the People's Daily article also makes it clear that the pan-democrats have hit Beijing's "bottom line".
Apple Daily calls on the Hong Kong government to transfer donations earmarked for the Sichuan government to non-government organisations instead if Sichuan authorities refuse to accept external supervision on how relief funds are used.
Hong Kong's Apple Daily accuses the Communist Party of unleashing a "red terror" on the mainland media and internet after the propaganda department reportedly launched a "new three-anti's personnel" campaign targeting "anti-party, anti-state, anti-nation" media workers.
Over in Hong Kong, thousands of dockers and their families and activists held a protest march on Sunday in an ongoing strike over wages at Kwai Tsing, one of the world's leading container ports, Apple Daily says.
Apple Daily says outgoing CPPCC chairman Jia Qinglin's call for upholding the leadership of the Communist Party in his final work report "proves once again that the CPPCC is a flower pot" - an ornamental body of little substance.
Hong Kong's Apple Daily urges people to be mindful of the fact that it is still the same government that waited at the door and demanded five pennies from Miss Lin's family to cover the cost of the bullet.
In late June, Lai fired his opening salvo in a direct assault on the giants with a splashy opening for adMart, a home-delivery shopping service that might just be Hong Kong's most ambitious e-commerce effort to date (the "a-d" stands for Apple Daily).
Apple Daily, one of Hong Kong's top-selling tabloids and an outspoken critic of the Communist Party, says the new leadership's vow not to copy Western political models shows the NPC is still a Soviet-style "rubber stamp" and the CPPCC is an ornamental but essentially useless "flower pot".
应用推荐