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 2012
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I can buy music legally (HK$8 per track). I got slightly over-excited by this news, and purchased an album that I later realized I had ordered on CD a couple of days earlier. Whoops. I still haven't quite figured what is available.
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Last week the UK TV rights for the English Premier League were sold for £3 billion. Does that affect Hong Kong viewers? No, because the rights for other countries will be sold separately. But here’s a stupid story in the SCMP based on the incorrect assumption that international rights are included in the UK deal,…
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Turns out that if you are a royal princess flying on your country’s national airline you only have to get on board the plane about a minute before the doors close – and the flight takes off on time. And your luggage gets tagged with VVIP and is on the luggage belt super fast. But…
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This advert for “VNAilines” has been on Flyer Talk for weeks and weeks:
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