Ordinary Gweilo
It's not big and it's not clever, it's just a Brit in Hong Kong writing (mainly) about Hong Kong
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Month: Nov 2008
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At first I thought this was a joke. Why would someone who claimed to believe that the Internet is the future (on RTHK) publish a printed magazine? However, having finally found copies of the third issue of NTSCMP in a branch of Dymocks (quite a lot of copies, actually), I can confirm that it does…
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Paypal have set up a Hong Kong site. Hurrah – there’s an English version. However, you have to wonder about the common sense of the people who set it up, because this is the screen header: Well-designed multi-lingual sites have a button saying ‘English’. This one doesn’t. However, if you can recognize any Chinese characters…
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Today’s SCMP has a league table that “does not include [the] late game”. Well, actually, it doesn’t include any of yesterday’s games. If it did, Bolton would have been 9th rather than 18th, Arsenal would have been 3rd rather than 4th, Portsmouth 8th rather than 9th, and Fulham 18th rather than 16th. Still, at least…
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A few days ago, Ken Livingstone made the fairly obvious observation that building new roads is only ever a short-term solution, and said that the proposed Wan Chai-Central would be a “complete waste of time” Today, there is a letter in the SCMP on this subject: How inappropriate for a progressive society like Hong Kong…
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