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 2007
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The SCMP continues to amuse and entertain (in a good way, of course…). I was reading about new Blu-Ray Recorders (subscription required) and was directed to this story in the "related archives": BBC World Service plans to develop digital radio by 2003 Mar 04, 1998 The BBC says it will sign a deal today to…
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Back in 2004, the boss of Ultimo (a lingerie company in the UK), claimed that conditions in the dormitories at factories in Guangdong producing her company’s products were similar to that of a ‘Travel Inn’. Well, maybe not. Or at least not the dormitories for the workers. Now comes a story (I read it…
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Did I miss this story in the SCMP? I found it in New Scientist: Tsunami risk for Hong Kong and Macao Hong Kong and Macao are enormous, sprawling economic centres perched on the coast. And both stand a 10 per cent chance of being hit by a serious tsunami in the next century, warn geophysicists.…
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Last week I mentioned that the drive-in cinema in Kowloon appeared to have closed down. Today comes confirmation of this in the SCMP (Drive-in cinema shuts after just 8 months – subscription required): The curtain has fallen on Hong Kong’s first and only drive-in cinema just eight months after it opened. Movie fans might have voted…
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Interesting news: Media conglomerate Sing Tao News Corp (1105) announced yesterday its English-language newspaper, The Standard, will switch to free circulation next Monday – a move industry observers expect to change the landscape of the Hong Kong media market. “There is a worldwide trend towards free tabloid newspapers that deliver news in an easy-to-read, lively…
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I see that today’s SCMP has a longish piece about biofuel on the mainland (Enormous potential in laggard biofuel – subscription required): Ethanol – produced by fermenting crops such as corn, soybean, rapeseed and sugarcane, or other plants such as cane-like sweet sorghum, sweet potato and cassava – has figured in the plans of many biofuel…
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The BBC reports (China dishes up menu translations) that the Beijing Tourism Bureau is trying to improve the English translations of restaurant menus in preparation for next year’s Olympics. Translations such as “virgin chicken” for a young chicken dish and “burnt lion’s head” for pork meatballs are confusing for foreigners, it says. [..] The names of many Chinese dishes have…
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