Category: Life in Hong Kong
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Oh dear. The SCMP is still publishing these ridiculous Pierce Lam letters: Migrants in HK need a wake-up call Thasbeeh Mohamed’s letter ("Cantonese-medium local system is unsuitable for expatriate students", December 19) is rife with errors and biased generalisations. Cantonese has always been most local schools’ medium of instruction. If there has been any change…
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Having finally caught up with the story about changes to the way British passports are being issued, the SCMP are not letting go. Local jobs to go as Britain closes passport operation Keith Wallis Dec 07, 2011 Up to 24 staff working at the British consulate in Hong Kong will be made redundant when all…
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The negotiations over the future of the ESF continue, but there seems to be some progress: Deadlock over future ESF subsidies Rather than losing government funds, foundation wants amounts matching Direct Subsidy Scheme Dennis Chong Nov 23, 2011 Negotiations between the English Schools Foundation and the government over whether ESF schools should continue to receive…
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Tropical storm Banyan is heading for Hong Kong….it’s heading to Vietnam…oh no, it isn’t…and now it’s a low pressure area.
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The problem with the “debate” about the ESF on the letters page of the South China Morning Post is that most of the correspondents stick to whatever is their chosen line of argument, and fail to engage with their opponents. Here’s a prime example (from Thursday): ESF must accept level playing field Letters in support…
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I see that City Super is 15 years old. Back when they started (the first branch was in Times Square), there were the two big supermarket chains (Park’n’Shop and Wellcome), a couple of branches of Olivers, and the food hall in Hong Kong Seibu. Now Park’nShop have a whole range of sub-brands. Great in Pacific…
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The MTR have started painting feet on the escalators to show passengers where to stand (yes, really), and it seems that they are now encouraging people to stand still rather than walking up or down in that reckless way favoured by some: Smiley®World Character dressed as Penguin to Promote Escalator Safety MTR cares about your…
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Cathay Pacific and Dragonair yesterday – Hong Kong to Shanghai. Two cancellations, and delays of 2-3 hours on most flights in the afternoon, and even worse coming back to Hong Kong, with delays of 3-4 hours:
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So the Beatles catalogue is finally available from the iTunes music store. Which is all very exciting. Or maybe not… OK, there might be a few people with iPods who haven’t worked out how to place their Beatles CDs into the CD drive of their computer and then import them into ITunes. It’s really not…
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Another piece of stupid website design. This is the UPS Hong Kong website. It’s in Chinese, which is fair enough, but surely there must be an English version. Common sense would dictate that there would be a button marked ‘Language’or ‘Eng’or something similar. In English. Nope, can’t see that anywhere. Yes there is an English…
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