About 18 months ago, the government introduced new legislation about nutritional labelling.  There was a lot of fuss made about all the products that would disappear from Hong Kong supermarkets because they claimed to be low in fat or whatever. At the time, I suggested that there was an easy solution: Surely it must be…

Happy New Year.

Thursday’s SCMP had a strange story about the possibility of replacing Easter Monday with a new public holiday for Confucius's birthday.  Hard to see that happening – we already have too many of these one day holidays on random days of the week, and Easter is the only Hong Kong holiday that is guaranteed to…

What would happen if we always told the truth?  It’s the theme of that Jim Carrey film that was on TVB on Sunday night, and Ricky Gervais’s The Invention of Lying. More specifically, what would happen if we all told the truth on those stupid health declaration forms that we have to fill in?  Yes,…

Being English, my afternoon is not complete without cucumber sandwiches and a nice cup of tea. I was horrified, yes horrified, to discover that afternoon tea in the over-priced cafe at the Landmark includes a Sui Mei topped with abalone.  What's that all about, then?

Well, better late than never, I suppose. Cable TV have finally launched a (very limited) High Definition service, and football seems to be the main reason behind it.  Although they lost the English Premier League rights to Now TV, they now have the Champions League to add to the Europa League (previously the UEFA Cup)…

I see that B&Q are closing their only store in Hong Kong, in the lovely Megabox in Kowloon Bay.  The SCMP rather ridiculously compares this to Carrefour’s withdrawal from Hong Kong a few years ago, but somehow doesn’t have the space to explain what actually happened.  B&Q simply had the wrong type of shop for…

Hilariously, Tim Hamlett seems to have filled a whole column in today’s SCMP by writing about the road that runs outside his window: A veteran journalist and Baptist University academic, Tim looks at the issues facing the city. Sui Wo Road has its origins at a small roundabout in the smoky industrial heart of Fo…

How difficult can it be to have Chinese as the default language on your website whilst providing easy access to the English version? Well, www.samsung.com.hk starts off promisingly with a front page that has both English and Chinese, but then dumps you on to a page that is entirely in Chinese.  If you hunt around…

I know portals are ten a penny, and it's easy enough to create your own, but since someone has gone to the trouble of setting up one that lists Hong Kong news and blogs you might as well take a look.   Alltop