Category: SCMP
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Thanks to Fumier for drawing this to my attention. It’s from the marvellous letter column of the always interesting SCMP from that great thinker Simon Patkin: Let there be light I refer to news that the group Lights Out Hong Kong wants to plunge our city into darkness for three minutes next month ("Green groups…
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I enjoyed this letter in Saturday’s SCMP: If Colin Campbell finds it impractical to walk "halfway up The Peak", perhaps he and his rich neighbours could do their bit to save us all from an early grave by investing in a sedan chair and a couple of coolies. This would also leave their hands free…
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The letters published in the SCMP are a constant source of amusement to me. Today they have come up with another gem: Have the chief executive or financial secretary given any thought to the tremendous cost to taxpayers of a five-day working week being introduced for the civil service in Hong Kong? The shorter working…
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There’s a splendid letter in today’s SCMP Technology section from someone called Jay Bhatt. I read your article "Desperate wait as industry fumbles with TV distribution" (October 25) on the entertainment industry’s problems with television distribution in Hong Kong. One solution would be to get Now Broadband to cut a deal with the Big Four…
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The front page of the SCMP over the weekend trumpeted the growth in circulation of both the daily and Sunday editions (up a whopping 4% over the same period last year). All so much blah blah, but what caught my eye were the excuses they offered for the earlier fall in circulation: Yes, that’ll be…
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There’s only one explanation that makes any sense. The SCMP don’t pay Simon Patkin for his silly little rants, he pays them for the free publicity. Monday’s paper had one of his more banal efforts, starting off with Donald Tsang’s strange suggestion that Hong Kong people should have more children in order to solve the…
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Letter of the week from today’s SCMP, echoing my own thoughts: I fail to understand why you continue to publish letters from Pierce Lam on the English Schools Foundation. In the past six weeks, since I first noticed his letters about the ESF, you have published at least five from him. The content of each…
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