Category: SCMP
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You may have gathered that I have a love-hate relationship with the South China Morning Post. On the one hand, I am grateful to have an English language newpaper (and given the number of expats in Hong Kong and the overwhelming use of Chinese by the local population, that isn’t something we should take for…
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Yesterday I rushed out to buy my copy of the new re-designed SCMP, but somehow it has take me until now to find anything to say about. What’s the point of re-designing a newspaper if you aren’t going to change the contents? Actually, they haven’t really re-designed it – all they have done is introduce a new…
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More strange goings-on at what is variously described as "the world’s most profitable newspaper" (is it?), "Asia’s leading newspaper" (it isn’t) and by other epithets that are a little less kind. Yes, it’s the South China Morning Post (SCMP). A few months ago the editor (Fanny Fung) departed, and last night the SCMP announced that…
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From today’s Talkback section of the SCMP: Have I missed something? I scoured the paper on Friday and Saturday and found nothing on Roger Waters’ Dark Side concert. Did the South China Morning Post have its eyes closed to this sell-out event at the Convention and Exhibition Centre? So many came away saying it was…
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Sunday’s SCMP: Golden-pig hype goes up in flames NORMA CONNOLLY If you think the next lunar year is going to be an incredibly lucky one, think again; you may have fallen victim to commercial hype. It will not be the year of the golden pig, fortune tellers say. Rather, it is the fire pig which…
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His blog hasn’t been updated for months, but Simon Patkin has found time to write to the SCMP (subscription required): Greenie gibberish Richard Fielding’s letters-page diatribe in favour of environmentalism and against free enterprise can only be described as gibberish ("Profiteering from the end of the world as we know it", February 3). For example,…
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The SCMP seem to have wasted some money on a survey about what ‘opinion leaders’ think about tax reform. And the answer is, er, well, actually they aren’t quite sure. However, having paid for the survey, the SCMP were determined to publish it (though maybe it wasn’t wise to make the actual Powerpoint presentation available…
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That mysterious man Ron Goodden is at it again, getting his letter (Let Israel be Iraq’s guide) published in the SCMP. Yet again there is no apparent connection with Hong Kong, and Mr Goodden lives in Atlanta, Georgia – which wasn’t anywhere near Hong Kong last time I checked. It’s not as if the SCMP…
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As you may have noticed, I find the letter column in the SCMP a great source of amusement. This letter was published yesterday: Racial discrimination It happened again! Last Sunday, I went shopping in Central with a Filipina friend who is a sales and marketing executive for a satellite television service company in Hong Kong. At…
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It seems a long time ago that Nury Vittachi was writing the mildly satirical Lai See column in the SCMP. As you may recall, Nury felt that he had been ‘sacked’ for political reasons, and doubted the official line from the paper that it was simply time for a change. The problem for the SCMP was that the column was handed over to a succession of…
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