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 2012
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Headline in the sub-Standard: Chan poised to pour over MPF fees
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He won’t give up, will he? Former lawmaker has flawed views on local education South China Morning Post | Tuesday, 23 October, 2012 Cheung Man-kwong, a former lawmaker experienced in politicking for "democracy" and a local teachers’ union, shows his true colours in the SCMP debate on public subvention for the English Schools Foundation (October…
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How many Booker Prize winning books do you own? How many have you actually read? I can’t be the only person who buys them and then either gives up after a few pages or never quite gets round to even starting them. I started reading Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang (which won…
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Some interesting discussion at Ulaca about the Lamma Ferry accident: Ferry Accident Raises Ethical Issues Besides the obvious safety issues raised by Monday’s collision between two ferries which resulted in at least 38 deaths, coverage of the accident has raised ethical concerns both journalistic and ferry industry-related. To take Wednesday’s South China Morning Post’s extensive…
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