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: Jun 2006
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The SCMP has dropped their weekly Technology supplement (again). No surprise, really, because it seems to attract very little advertising, and recently it seems to have been padded-out with large photographs to fill the reduced space. Amusingly (but predictably) they have come up with a ‘positive spin’ on this, claiming that they are "shifting the…
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When I worked in central London, my choice for lunch was basically the pub or a local sandwich shop. One of the better (but pricier) options for a readymade sandwich was Pret A Manger, which started opening new outlets at a phenomenal rate and then seemed set for world domination when McDonalds bought a slice…
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I know that John Pilger is a bleeding heart liberal, but if even half of this is true then the British Government has behaved in a totally outrageous way: During the 1960s and 1970s, British governments, both Labour and Tory, tricked and expelled the entire population of the Chagos, a British colonial dependency, so that…
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