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: Jul 2004
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At the start of last week, Shaky was wishing Typhoon Mindulle on Hong Kong so that he could get a day off. Didn’t happen, and comparing the actual track of the storm with what the experts predicted is quite interesting – an even more spectacular miss than David Beckham’s: (click on the image to see…
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Having lived in Britain for many years, I was thoroughly indoctrinated with the line that the National Health Service (NHS) is the best healthcare system in the world, and when I went on holidays overseas I worried that if I fell ill I might have a very expensive brush with a local system that imposed…
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I see we are back to the traditional argument between the organizers and the police about how many people joined yesterday’s march. The police say 200,000, the organizers more than half a million. Clearly there were fewer than last year, so on the face of it the higher numbers sounds unlikely, but I have always…
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