HK tractor-production to boom
Hong Kong CE John Lee says the government will issue a ‘public consultation’ document on the city’s first ‘Five-Year Plan’ by the end of June… “We have referred to...
Doctor disbarred for primary election conviction
Former Civic Party lawmaker and urologist Kwok Ka-ki was disbarred last week… …after a [HK Medical Council] disciplinary panel found that his national...
World’s greatest 90+ asset-trader strikes again. As a CK shareholder, it’s as juicy as selling ports, The Center, etc. (HK is done, move on.) As a consumer, a duopoly becomes a monopoly. Half the supermarkets in town consolidate/shut down.
Is there a HK govt antitrust apparatus?
Some old TV footage
Remember textiles-fortune scion and lawmaker Michael Tien sweeping the streets and sleeping in a tiny ‘cage home’ around 15 years ago? It was part of an RTHK TV series...
Queens Rd West, toward Kennedy Town?
Hong Kong saved from Spanish-lessons threat
Without informal, non-government (often missionary-run) schools on Kowloon rooftops, half of Hong Kong’s 1950s and 60s generation would have been illiterate. But...
Damn. I was looking forward to a US-appointed antipope: former Fox News host called Hank with tattoos of Jesus and AR-15s on his forceps; can’t pronounce “apostolic”; vestments and mitre designed by Trump, adorned with gold sequins and dayglo Virgin Marys. It would have been a hoot.
Nation saved from restaurant threat
HKFP reports… All Hong Kong restaurant licences will include national security clauses from September, Secretary for Environment and Ecology Tse Chin-wan has said. …According to an...
Melbourne - the southern hemisphere's art hub-zone...
Visit to cousin's house in half-Greek, half-Dame Edna neighborhood...
Yet more Melbourne...
Melbourne...
Ballarat...
Dinner with former Hongongers at collector's home...
Melbourne...
Flight to Australia. Experienced Cathay Pacific's Hong Kong national security-compliant seat belts...
Could HK compete better against cities being bombed by Iran? We can but try...
Bail for booksellers
From HKFP… The founder and three staff members of Hong Kong independent bookshop Book Punch have been released on bail after they were arrested by national security police over...
Are the Tate brothers still at the HK Rosewood? Either way - my little gesture of displeasure towards the hotel for hosting people wanted for rape and human-trafficking: misappropriating some of their (excellent) room slippers during a recent visit…
Let’s cram even more tourists in!!!
It must have been a while since the SCMP had an interesting op-ed. For a decade or more, most of the paper’s opinion pieces have been churned out by...
Bloomberg's Spring Dinner menu - everything prim and proper...
Tai Po fire inquiry starts
From HKFP… Thursday marked the first day of the public hearing into the blaze, which killed 168 people and displaced thousands living in the Tai Po residential complex. It...
Those ‘opening a dress’ medals in full...
GBM: Ginormous-est Boss Man
SBS: Sometimes Bites Someone
PDSM: Post-Disorder Stress Menopause
PMSM: Pre-Menstrual Severe Manliness
After decades of trying without success to be funny, Nury finally does it. Lobsters!
Quiet end to week
Lingua Sinica report on Chinese diplomats in France complaining about a Taiwanese-German play showing at a Strasbourg theatre… When theater director Barbara Engelhardt did not respond, the deputy consul...
HK Alliance pair want case kicked out
Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung seek early acquittals on subversion charges relating to their role in the HK Alliance. From HKFP… Barrister Erik Shum, representing Lee...
Heart-warming real-estate news
There’s nothing we like more than seeing a property speculator having to cut his asking price, preferably by a lot… Known colloquially as the “Ten Billion Shop King” for...
The household curry tree - essential for South Asian cuisine - is flowering...
