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: Apr 2017
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BBC First (on Now TV in Hong Kong) claims to be “the home of premium drama from the BBC. Enjoy all new shows brought to you first and on demand”. So – Sherlock season 4, that would be on BBC First? Well, yes it is in other parts of Asia, but in Hong Kong you…
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Cultural insight alert: Chinese consumers “prefer a hot, rice-based breakfast to cold cereal.” Chinese company buys 60% of The Weetabix food company. Less than five years later, they sell it on to a large US firm. Seems like an everyday tale of international commerce. But that’s too dull. No, it’s because the Chinese company failed…
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From Hong Kong Free Press: MTR Airport Express to increase fares for the first time in its history in June Hong Kong’s Airport Express MTR line is set to increase fares by 10.3 percent in June – the first fee hike since it came into operation in 1998. According to a Tuesday Legislative Council document,…
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