Category: SCMP
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Well, better late that never, I suppose. Not a flight from Shanghai to Hong Kong, but a story in the South China Morning Post about the frequent delays on that route (subscription required): Flights to and from mainland airports have been delayed for up to eight hours. About four out of every 10 Dragonair flights…
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Why does the SCMP publish a letter from someone living in South Africa about US domestic politics? Reject Kagan US Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s ascendancy to the Supreme Court should be emphatically rejected. Kagan has not yet had time to develop a mature philosophy of judging. People need to know of Kagan’s agenda-driven approach to…
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When Prudential’s ill-fated attempt to buy AIA was first announced, the SCMP was very slow getting on to the story. Today (Thursday) they even seem to have more coverage than the FT (or at least its Asian edition), so I think I wasted HK$28 on the pink ‘un. This is one of the SCMP’s three…
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I noticed this nonsense in the SCMP today, and assumed that someone might have spotted the errors and corrected them in the online edition. No they haven’t… Truck drivers in go-slow rally against fee About 70 drivers staged a go-slow protest in Yuen Long yesterday to urge Guangdong authorities to cancel the lump sum fee…
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The SCMP seems to have been hoist by its own petard. They have a policy of printing the Chinese characters for people and places. And another policy of cutting costs. The unsurprising result is that sometimes they get things wrong. Yesterday they somehow mixed up the Chinese characters for Chinese President Hu Jintao and another…
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They print so many stupid letters in the SCMP, but this one is spectacular: Combine two MTR rail lines There has been much discussion (or rather negative feedback) from East Rail Line passengers after the West Rail Line was extended to Tsim Sha Tsui East while the East Rail Line now terminates at Hung Hom.…
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Today’s SCMP has this brilliant observation about dead fish: Making specimen is a lengthy process – it took half a year to turn the largest gar into a suitable specimen. A well-prepared specimen can last 250 years and allow researchers to study its body structures in detail, Chong says. However, movements and behaviour of a…
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Er, is this news? Rabbit drowns off Wan Chai A rabbit drowned off Wan Chai after falling into the sea while its owner was walking it at a waterfront park. Police said a 15-year-old girl called for help at about 8.45am, saying her pet rabbit had fallen into the sea at the park, in Hung…
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This week there was an accident involving a double-decker bus that toppled over, resulting in two deaths. On Wednesday there was a letter in the SCMP complaining that double-decker buses are an unwelcome colonial legacy. Double-decker buses are yet another of the mindless colonial imitations of London (the others include wearing black business clothes suitable…
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I had nothing better to do today than read this leader in the Sunday Morning Post. One has to have tremendous admiration for anyone who can summon up such horrible prose when writing about language, of all things: Beijing should make sure nation retains its voice LEADEROct 11, 2009 A national language is necessary to…
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