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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Year: 2026
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The new pricing for the JoyYou card comes into effect in April, and the local media have been making a big fuss about it. It’s very simple: if the fare is HK$10 or less, you will continue to pay HK$2 and the government will pay the rest to the transport operator. If it’s more than…
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Just had one of those mad things where a company calls me and then asks me to confirm how I spell my name. You called me! Why do I need to confirm anything? And how do I know that you are really who you say you are? What does it prove? Anyone could spell out…
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Interesting article, but…. ‘If you’re flushing the toilet with grey water, people should know’: how China turned rain into an asset In 1995 the Chinese Communist party (CCP) hosted China’s first modern-day national seminar of rainwater utilisation in Lanzhou, a dry northern city that abuts the Gobi desert. In the following decades, URWH started to…
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