Month: Apr 2013
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Interesting piece from Gweipo about newspapers: Buy a newspaper – save a journalist? I've been subjected to a barrage of emails of late by the IHT. And the Wall street journal. And the NYT. [..] Why did I resist? A few main reasons. I just hate all that paper coming into the house – even…
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I think I may have noticed a theme to these “Dean Fung English” articles" in the Hong Kong Standard:
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They had another one of those International Cheese Festivals at Hullett House in TST. The problem is that the cheese market is in a tiny room. I had to wait in a queue before I was allowed in, but there were still too many people inside. I did manage to try the only Scottish cheese…
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I’m obviously not paying attention, so I only found out from Spike that Spotify is now available in Hong Kong. There’s the usual pantomime with a default page that is only in Chinese, and no obvious way to change to English. Google Chrome makes it easier by translating it (rather badly), otherwise you would be…
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Why is the SCMP still printing these tedious letters from Pierce Lam? As well as attacking the ESF (yawn) he is now trying to defend the “designated schools” scheme: Why officials should end ESF subsidy South China Morning Post | 2 April 2013 Simon Osborn rightly recognises that the English Schools Foundation’s "old policy" discriminates…
Ordinary Gweilo 