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: Oct 2006
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I came across a rather unfortunate juxtaposition of advert and news story in last week’s Economist. They had an article about the problems with the new Airbus A380 opposite an advert from ‘Invest in France’. The advert asks the CEO of Fedex for a "French success story", and he offers this: The new Airbus 380…
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Which is worse: “ordinary” Chinese food in the UK or “ordinary” European food in Hong Kong? I’ll admit that I used to enjoy Chinese food in the UK. Of course, I knew that it probably wasn’t exactly the same as the Chinese food in China, but it was different from European food and I liked…
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I was slightly surprised to see that France is going to ban smoking in public places (including bars and restaurants). About 15 years ago they introduced a law which was supposed to make it mandatory to have a no-smoking area in all bars and restaurants, but my experience was that this was largely ignored (at least in…
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As of yesterday, BBC Prime on Now Broadband TV became BBC Entertainment. However, as I expected, it appears that this is mainly a re-branding exercise, with a few minor changes to the schedule – though it’s hard to tell because although there is a bbcentertainment.com website, it redirects to bbcprime.com and if you select Hong…
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A brief update on Hong Kong blogs. Someone presumed to be a Kiwi has started a new blog at HK Ham, but has not yet been added to the list of HK blogs because of a bug in Typepad. Grrrr… DGNYHK has left Hong Kong, but I have been unable to add Tribe DGNY to…
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On Monday, the SCMP printed one of Simon Patkin’s (always entertaining) letters. Today they have printed two replies: Evidence of warming Simon Patkin’s accusations of "Shrill alarmism" (October 2) reflect an increasingly aggressive right-wing view in the US that anyone who disagrees with the party line is either biased, un-American or both. His selective evidence…
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Both the English language newspapers had stories about Oasis over the weekend. The Standard reported that Oasis does not yet have an operating licence, and could be forced to cancel flights if it doesn’t receive it soon (Budget carrier in race to win flights license): Oasis entered the limelight earlier this month when it began…
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The SCMP is often an even greater disappointment than usual on a public holiday, but today I feel I got full value for my HK$7. Firstly, there is that old standby the Patkin letter. This one (Shrill alarmism – subscription required) is up to Simon’s normal high standards: Your paper’s desire to cause an outcry…
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