Category: SCMP
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First of all (via Hongkie Town), there’s HKGMB (Hong Kong’s Miserable Gweilo Bastard) who has been quite entertaining so far. Yesterday there was a flurry of activity on various blogs following the news of a bit of trouble at the SCMP. Take your pick from two blogs which are new to me: Mister Bijou (interesting comments here) and…
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Simon Patkin is at it again. Today’s Sunday Morning Post includes a letter from him entitled “Don’t be fooled by alarmists on global warming”. He is responding to Christine Loh’s column (Global warming won’t wait – subscription required) on Thursday which referred to the Stern Review. The time she has seized on a report saying that global…
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This made me laugh: “Knocking down somebody’s home is not a simple matter, although we use professional social workers to help.” – Tsang Cheung-chuen, Assistant Director of Buildings I wonder how they help? Maybe they keep a large sledgehammer in the office for just such an occasion, or perhaps they are trained to use wrecking balls…
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On Monday, the SCMP printed one of Simon Patkin’s (always entertaining) letters. Today they have printed two replies: Evidence of warming Simon Patkin’s accusations of "Shrill alarmism" (October 2) reflect an increasingly aggressive right-wing view in the US that anyone who disagrees with the party line is either biased, un-American or both. His selective evidence…
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The SCMP is often an even greater disappointment than usual on a public holiday, but today I feel I got full value for my HK$7. Firstly, there is that old standby the Patkin letter. This one (Shrill alarmism – subscription required) is up to Simon’s normal high standards: Your paper’s desire to cause an outcry…
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Sometimes it seems that Jake van der Kamp struggles to find things to write about in his daily SCMP column – you may recall that he was famously caught out by an April Fool joke earlier this year. However, he has really got stuck into the debate on GST. Unfortunately you need a paid subcription…
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Why does the SCMP publish a letter (Only time will tell – subscription required) from an American (with no obvious connection to Hong Kong) concerning a TV film commissioned by a UK TV network about an American subject? The new film, Death of a President, panders to an underclass which contemporary liberalism shelters but should…
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In the SCMP on Sunday, Tim Noonan wrote about the upcoming bidding process for the Hong Kong TV rights for the English Premier League (Subscription required): The bidding for the right to broadcast the EPL in Hong Kong from 2007 to 2010 will begin next month. Much has been made about these rights that were…
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From the usual source of intelligent comment on all things Hong Kong – yes, it’s the SCMP letter column: I appreciate the efforts by Friends of the Earth and other green groups to create a greener world. But I wish they would offer more constructive criticism. I refer specifically to their findings on inside temperatures.…
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As you may have noticed, the letters page of the SCMP is a source of almost endless amusement to me. Today we have a typically puzzling letter: Confused by Patten I never met Chris Patten, so he has no reason to try to confuse me, as he attempts to do in David Evans’ interview in…
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