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: Sep 2006
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Al Gore is in Hong Kong to promote his film An Inconvenient Truth, and to mark this occasion, the SCMP published a sceptical piece on global warming [all SCMP links require a subscription] by Bjorn Lomborg. I have Lomberg’s original book The Skeptical Environmentalist and I think he puts forward some interesting ideas. I have also…
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It’s fairly obvious that when they choose contestants for The Apprentice it’s more about casting than it is about picking the best candidates. In the early weeks the "characters" provide some entertainment, cause trouble, and then get fired. Hence (as I mentioned before), this time around we had a fat bloke with glasses (Brent) and…
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Why does the SCMP publish a letter (Only time will tell – subscription required) from an American (with no obvious connection to Hong Kong) concerning a TV film commissioned by a UK TV network about an American subject? The new film, Death of a President, panders to an underclass which contemporary liberalism shelters but should…
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Someone in the management of Park’n’Shop has clearly gone mad. They have decided that what shoppers really want is reductions on all “yellow label” products (please don’t ask me what a “yellow label” product might be, but there are a lot of them). The problem is that a large number of these reductions seem to be a nominal…
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Christine Loh Kung-wai, writing in today’s SCMP (subscription) highlights the curious way that the government says it wants a debate on GST but doesn’t seem to want to give us all the facts: What seems unsatisfactory to those who support a GST is that I want more information, and a public debate, about what options…
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I’m still trying to figure out Oasis Hong Kong Airlines. It’s clearly not a budget airline in the mould of Southwest, Ryanair & Easyjet, so what is it? They have now announced fares and schedules on their website. No big surprises – they have bought two planes from Singapore Airlines, and have maintained the 32″ legroom…
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One of the facts I know about Hong Kong is that St John’s Cathedral is the only freehold property in Hong Kong. It must be true – if you search in Google for St. John’s Cathedral freehold Hong Kong you will find several references to this, starting with Wikipedia (as usual according to The Guardian),…
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In the SCMP on Sunday, Tim Noonan wrote about the upcoming bidding process for the Hong Kong TV rights for the English Premier League (Subscription required): The bidding for the right to broadcast the EPL in Hong Kong from 2007 to 2010 will begin next month. Much has been made about these rights that were…
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Hong Kong is known for having low taxes. So why does the government want to introduce Goods & Services Tax (GST)? It certainly doesn’t seem to be popular (take two stories just from today’s SCMP, for example, or older stories in The Standard that are freely available). First of all, are taxes really low in…
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