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: Jan 2012
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More on the sometimes crazy pricing of ebooks: The great ebook price swindle Publishers are facing an uncertain time in the digital world – but increasing the prices of their ebooks is a retrograde step Dan Gillmor | guardian.co.uk | Friday 23 December 2011 15.07 GMT I want to offer a word of thanks to…
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There have been several letters in the SCMP from expats in response to Sam Wong’s letter last week. His response is to deny what he wrote and blame it on the sub-editor: Some deny post-colonial reality of HK There have been many responses to my letter ("Expats have done little to benefit city", January 3).…
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More enlightened views brought to us by the letters page of the SCMP: Expats have done little to benefit city Recently the concept of Hong Kong’s competitiveness or the competitive edge of Hong Kong has again been quoted in your editorials, for example ("ESF debate merits a conclusion soon", December 28). In all these cases,…
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Oh dear. The SCMP is still publishing these ridiculous Pierce Lam letters: Migrants in HK need a wake-up call Thasbeeh Mohamed’s letter ("Cantonese-medium local system is unsuitable for expatriate students", December 19) is rife with errors and biased generalisations. Cantonese has always been most local schools’ medium of instruction. If there has been any change…
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