Category: SCMP
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I was rather amused by this story in the SCMP yesterday. As you can probably see, the headline is “Tunnel provides vital link to major business areas.” It’s in a slim supplement about the ‘New Face of Wan Chai’. This includes Three Pacific Place – which rather cleverly isn’t actually in Pacific Place itself. So…
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I don't have any problem with the national hysteria that surrounds the Beijing Olympics, but isn't the South China Morning Post meant to be a serious newspaper? So what's this headline all about, then? As if this hysterical front page wasn't bad enough, the story continued inside, occupying the whole of pages two and three.…
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I am amused to see that the SCMP has turned on Lee Shau-kee after previously reporting his mad predictions about the Hang Seng Index as if he were some kind of genius (Lee losing Midas touch as trust falls 25pc in value – subscription required): Lee Shau-kee, who was last year touted as Asia’s Warren…
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There’s an excellent editorial in today’s Sunday Morning Post (Burning iPhone envy? Don’t believe the hype): Undeniably, since its inception in the 1970s, Apple has revolutionised the way we use personal computers and listen to music. iPod’s impact today has been as great as the Sony Walkman, if not greater. Its worldwide popularity forces music…
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Unless I am very much mistaken, this is the same letter printed twice in the SCMP – once in Talkback on June 25, and then about 10 days later in the Education Mailbag. Though, to be fair, they have edited it slightly differently each time:
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Last year I made fun of the SCMP for somehow implying that an HD TV set would enable viewers to watch the BBC series Planet Earth in HD even though (1) digital TV had not been launched at the time, and (2) it was on TVB Pearl, which was not planned to be (and is…
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When the iPhone 3G was announced a few weeks ago, the SCMP gave it a lot of coverage, presumably because this was going to be the first opportunity for gadget-hungry Hong Kong people to get their hands on the over-hyped device. Well, apart from the large quantity that have been sold on the ‘grey market’…
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Imagine my reaction upon reading Post Magazine in yesterday's Sunday Morning Post when I discovered that OrdinaryGweilo.com is one of the top 20 websites in Hong Kong. My delight was somewhat diminished by a couple of things. Firstly, that this list appears to have thrown together without very much research. One might almost say it…
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More wise words on the Interweb from SCMP readers (subscription required): First, I suggest the government should set up an authority to monitor the internet. It should consist of people from various occupations, such as social workers, teachers and psychologists. Through the experience they have accumulated in their respective professions, they can judge whether information…
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Amazingly, the “nude photos scandal” is still front page news in Hong Kong newspapers. The latest non-news is that Edison Chen has admitted he did take the photographs, and also announced that he will quit showbusiness “indefinitely”. Beats me how that is worth more than a few paragraphs in a gossip column, but the SCMP…
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