Category: China
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Some great “before and after” photos here: The great leap upward: China's Pearl River Delta, then and now
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I received this email after a recent brief hotel stay in China: Firstly, Thanks for your consistently loyalty with our hotel and [group] as a [loyalty program] member! Our management team have paid more attention to your staying experience. If there anything happened on you and makes you feel dissatisfied stay experience. Please do not…
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Over the New Year holiday, CCTV-4 has been showing the full 48 hours of Deng Xiaoping at History’s Crossroads. My favourite bits (i.e. the only stuff I can understand) are the cameo appearances by Robert Maxwell, Ted Heath, Margaret Thatcher and a Governor or two. And only one of them looked anything like the real…
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Two weeks ago, the SCMP published this ridiculous letter: Voting rights don’t include secession Virginia Yue (‘We should respect voters’ choice,’ January 30), in her reply to my letter (‘Small-circle election for us, please’, January 20), can be forgiven for being unaware that universal suffrage can be in the form of indirect election or direct…
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I think the SCMP only employ Lau Nai-keung to annoy people (or maybe he pays them to publish the nonsense he writes). Today he gives us the theory that the Western media are just jealous of China (Fakes offend Chinese as much as anyone – subscription required): After the grand opening of the Beijing Olympics,…
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The Cable TV news service on KCR MTR trains is all about the earthquake in Sichuan. Would it therefore not be possible (just for a day or two) to drop the idiotic advertising that takes up about 50% of the screen whilst the news is being broadcast? Distressing pictures of earthquake victims do not sit…
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I try to avoid making fun of the mangled English that is common in Hong Kong (glass houses and all that). However, when large companies choose to place advertisements in Tai Po’s leading English language newspaper, surely they could spend a little time or a few dollars on getting it right. The sub-heading to the…
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Every since I first came to Hong Kong, my various jobs have required me to travel to China, almost invariably to Guangdong province. This is hardly unusual, and many Hong Kong people spend several days a week (sometimes the whole working week) across the border. I have to admit that the first few times I…
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It’s those Chinese tourists in the Clarks factory outlet again: The Chinese were well-prepared. Armed with paper cutouts of their relatives’ feet, they leaped from their coaches and headed straight for the racks of shoes at the Clarks shop. "It was a bit of a frenzy," said a staff member at Bicester Village, a collection…
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Spike over at Hongkie Town is complaining that he can no longer get a multiple-entry visa to go to China, and instead has to make do with a six-month dual-entry visa (costing near HK$1,000). That’s not very good! Six months ago when I last renewed my visa I complained about the cost, but now I…
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