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 2009
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The government is apparently very cross with the good people at Hong Kong Disneyland, who took advantage of the closure of all primary schools by announcing a special offer (for children) of unlimited admission for two weeks for the normal price of a single entry ticket. Predictably there were big crowds of children there on…
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Good grief. Does the government really believe that closing primary schools and kindergartens is going to help? Do they actually think they have special powers that will make it possible to keep H1N1 away from Hong Kong? With the number of people who arrive here every day from Australia, the US and the UK, that…
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It’s hard to believe it now, but there was a time when PCCW’s Now TV service looked as if it was going to be a genuinely innovative competitor to Cable TV. Now they are the market leader and Cable TV have apparently given up, so they seem to have lost interest in innovation. OK, so…
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