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: Jun 2010
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Save time and money, it says. By signing up for two years, you save the Society the expense of sending renewal reminders to you next year (and you help us conserve paper) Well, if you want to save paper maybe you could resist the temptation to stuff the envelope with all these different bits of…
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When Prudential’s ill-fated attempt to buy AIA was first announced, the SCMP was very slow getting on to the story. Today (Thursday) they even seem to have more coverage than the FT (or at least its Asian edition), so I think I wasted HK$28 on the pink ‘un. This is one of the SCMP’s three…
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Well, well. Common sense prevails (for once) and a huge and stupid acquisition is abandoned. Prudential top brass fight for their jobs as AIA takeover abandoned Prudential has bowed to shareholder pressure and formally abandoned its attempt to take over the Asian insurer AIA, leaving its management team with a £450m bill as they fight…
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