Category: SCMP
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In the Barrels, Shooting & Fish department, we have this latest "sponsored feature" in the Sunday Post, demonstrating that it’s not necessary to write adverts in English: In a breakthrough innovation for the concept of Suzuki cars successful integration into innovative thinking, pioneering global strategy of the model range, the orientation of successful launch since…
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I see that the New York Times is the latest newspaper to abandon the ‘pay wall’ and make all their content freely available (links). How long can the SCMP hold out against this worldwide trend? Actually, whilst we’re on this subject (and I know I’m sounding like a broken record here), how can the SCMP…
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The SCMP continues to amuse and entertain (in a good way, of course…). I was reading about new Blu-Ray Recorders (subscription required) and was directed to this story in the "related archives": BBC World Service plans to develop digital radio by 2003 Mar 04, 1998 The BBC says it will sign a deal today to…
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A progress report on the redesigned scmp.com: The headlines are now shown in full. Well done! The home page is still slow to load, and sometimes is simply not available (see below). Sometimes I can access the home page but then when I login I get the stupid message again. The search is marginally better…
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Little bits of rubbish I have accumulated… As I am sure I have remarked before, I could fill this blog with the mad letters they publish in the SCMP. Yesterday, Spike couldn’t resist the temptation to highlight a particular stupid example about domestic helpers’ salaries from a retired civil servant living in Mid Levels. It…
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There was a letter in the SCMP a while back from someone complaining about the way people use mobile phones in Hong Kong. I was expecting it to generate some response, but I haven’t seen anything (and the letter is no longer anywhere to be found on the new improved website): I cannot help but…
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What is it with people who design websites? The SCMP website has been re-designed, and of course it looks better, but… One of the better features of the old SCMP site was ‘Today’s Stories’, a single (simple) page with all the stories in that day’s paper. You could even go back over the last 7…
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From the City section of today’s SCMP… OK, so the SCMP runs banal stories such as the one about children liking to chat on the Internet (who’d have guessed it?) or a building we’ve never heard of being structurally safe. The question is what made someone sandwich those stories with the other 4 items that…
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Someone please slap me around the face, will you? I think I’m about to something a bit daft. The problem is that I have lost my access to SCMP.com and I am therefore considering the rather radical step of actually paying for it. As luck would have it, the SCMP have written to me suggesting…
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Chelsea drew 1-1 with Valencia. The SCMP headline writer seemed to think otherwise:
Ordinary Gweilo 