Stories about Hong Kong (China) from February, 2007
Hong Kong: tiny Disney world
Onemanbandwidth visited Hong Kong's Disney world and explained why it did not affect the hotel occupancy rate: The Hong Kong Government, betting like they were in Macau, plowed millions of dollars more into the park than did Disney. They expected, acording to some bogus study, that the mainlanders would spend...
Hong Kong: Cyber dream
Sun bin visited Hong Kong's “Cyber port” and here is his conclusion: People were saying that HK's “cyberport” is a real estate development. I now want to put it in more specific terms, “purely residential development”. i.e. no business, no cyber, not even some decent shops or restaurants, or hotel,...
Hong Kong: First Joss Sticks headline
Letters from China notices that a most popular local newspapers, Apple Daily, has put the “first joss sticks at Wong Tai Sin Temple” at the headline news for lunar new years for three years! No news in Hong Kong?
Hong Kong: teaching Chinese writing course in English
Hegelchong complains about the universities’ language policy in Hong Kong. High ranking university officials have made the decision that from next term onward, all courses should be taught in English, no matter whether it is about Hong Kong society or Chinese modern history. Well, he is teaching a group of...
Hong Kong: Chinese people news’ angle
ESWN translates an excerpt from a book Traveling through war-torn lands by Suzanna Cheung Chuiyung, which talks about Hong Kong editors’ news angle.
China: MTV
An interview with a Hong Kong MTV director, Kahing Chan, who works in China MTV now. The interview touches about issues such as MTV style, censorship, future trend.
China and Hong Kong: Ai Xiao-ming
An interview with mainland China independent film maker Ai Xiao-ming on the Vagina Monologue at interlocals.net.
Hong Kong: academic freedom
Chong from interlocals writes about the recent scandal about the education department's intervention into academic freedom, by giving pressure to the president of Hong Kong Institute of Education to stop outspoken professors from criticizing the government education policy. A group of university teachers released a statement to call for public...
Hong Kong: academic freedom
Chong from interlocals writes about the recent scandal about the education department's intervention into academic freedom, by giving pressure to the president of Hong Kong Institute of Education to stop outspoken professors from criticizing the government education policy. A group of university teachers released a statement to call for public...
Hong Kong: Li Ka-Shing
Asia Sentinel has an article reporting about Asia’s richest tycoons Li Ka-Shing's business strategy in Hong Kong and China: His flagship companies Hutchison Whampoa and Cheung Kong are big, top-tier and world famous, owned by investors around the globe… Less well-known is that the Hutch empire is also one of...
China: Open Letter to Sina.com
In the weekend, some lawyers-bloggers got together for a joint letter to sina.com complaining about their editorial policy which has violated bloggers’ freedom of speech. ESWN has translated the letter into English.
Hong Kong: not meeting pan-dem
Charles mok is one of the memeber in the Chief Executive election committee member, representing IT professional. He has nominated Alan Leong as a candidate. Today he revealed in his blog that Donald Tsang had arranged meeting will all the election committee members, except those who had nominated Leong.
Hong Kong: Vagina Monologue
The local version of “Vagina Monologue” was on show in Hong Kong. The title has been translated into “VV silent talk”. Lian at inmediahk.net criticized that the local version still refused to spell out the word “Vagina” loud, and it missed the whole point of the drama and against Eve...
Hong Kong: I'll get the job done
Donald Tsang has finally launched his election campaign for the Chief Executive (2007-2012). As the new Chief Executive (CE) would be selected by 800 selective committee members dominated by pro-China and business sector, he is sure to continue his position for five more years even though there is another candidate,...
