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Month: Dec 2003

  • Politics – Hong Kong style

    It must be difficult trying to make the case for the government and the DAB in current circumstances, but there still seem to people willing to do it. Step forward Jasper Tsang and Priscilla Lau! This is from the Hong Kong Standard: Priscilla Lau Pui-king, a Hong Kong deputy to the National People’s Congress, questioned…

  • Asia Weblog awards

    I haven’t yet mentioned the Asia Weblog awards, though I have had the logo (with a link) up for a few days. Like some others, I am not all that keen on the idea of trying to decide which is the “best” out of a very disparate collection of weblogs, but I do think that…

  • Childish politicians

    After my rather pessimistic piece about the prospects for peace in Northern Ireland after the electorate expressed a preference for Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionists, a rather more positive view from The Guardian. It seems that although Ian Paisley’s DUP make a very public show of refusing to even acknowledge Sinn Fein, behind the…

  • What I learned today

    One interesting aspect of publishing a weblog is finding out how many people are reading it, and how they found out about it. Unsurprisingly, most of my “traffic” comes from links on other Hong Kong weblogs, and a few posts that mention comments I have made. Shaky has linked to two of my posts, and…

  • Misconceptions about China

    I happen to believe that the British government did a fairly poor job of negotiating the handover. Initially they thought that perhaps China might either forget about it (!!) and leave things unchanged, or allow the British to carry on running the place after the expiry of the lease.

  • Free trade?

    An interesting piece about the irony of the USA getting upset with China for being too good at capitalism.

  • Jingle Bells

    With thanks to Simon, who has time to trawl the net and find this stuff. This brings back memories for me. A long time ago, after leaving college and before I knew what I wanted to do (or more accurately, after I had failed to get a job doing what I wanted to do), I…

  • Mask

    Every now and then I see someone wearing a mask out on on the street or in a shopping centre. Obviously this is a reminder of the SARS outbreak when almost everyone in Hong Kong (apart from a few stubborn gweilos) wore masks. At the time I thought it was a complete over-reaction given that…

  • Snake’s off

    Now that it’s officially cold, a traditional dish is snake soup. However, this report (from AP) suggests that it may not be so readily available this year. Actually, I quite like snake soup. I know some people are squeamish about eating snakes, but as long as you can’t see the damn things I don’t mind.

  • I think he’s still upset about the rugby

    Simon has some good knockabout stuff on the achievements of Britain and Australia over the years. Also provides some insight into what people at a certain large international financial institution spend their time doing.