Yesterday’s Apple Daily has a large photograph on its front page of an elderly woman who was killed by a falling window. The photograph shows her lying in the street in a pool of blood, either dying or already dead. Her face has been pixellated, but her identity can hardly be a secret. I don’t…

The Sun (a British tabloid) puns about the death of a serial killer: I may be alone in this, but I find it very hard to rejoice about anyone’s death. I felt similarly about the coverage of, and reaction to, the deaths of Uday and Qusay Hussein, especially the gruesome photographs released by the US…

Still no sign of Now Broadband TV where I live, but what I read today makes me less keen on having this service. Apparently it is not possible to record any of the programs, which means that you have to watch them live or not at all (this is from Dan Gillmor‘s column in the…

Today’s Sun has this front-page story: it’s about one of the Queen’s dogs. What could be more important than one dog killing another?

Leading libel lawyer Peter Carter-Ruck died on Friday. Readers of Private Eye will know the name because he was frequently writing to the magazine demanding damages for something they had written, and when they felt confident or brave they would publish the letters. One of his former partners has written a piece in today’s Guardian…

The headline is from Variety. exTV is the name of the new Pay-TV venture from Galaxy Satellite Broadcasting, owned by TVB and Intelsat (the government insisted that TVB couldn’t control the venture and had to have a partner, and I think the original partner pulled out). This is from the Hong Kong Standard: The service…

Last Friday morning, RTHK devoted about half an hour to a discussion on the state of satire in Hong Kong, and the three guests spent most of the time attacking each other! Steve Vines was promoting Spike, George Adams was promoting his NTSCMP website, and Nury Vittachi was promoting, well mainly Nury Vittachi (though I…

Whilst I was sitting here this morning trying to work, someone called me from the Far Eastern Economic Review asking if I could spare a few minutes to answer some questions. What they wanted to know was why I am no longer subscribing to their magazine. Simple answer – it’s boring, and even the articles…

The Washington Times, owned by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s controversial Unification Church, has this insight on recent developments in Hong Kong. Highlights of their incisive analysis include: Hong Kongers simply are not happy being part of the PRC. Hong Kong’s free market made it rich. It is questionable whether it can continue to prosper…