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When I first read this story on the Shanghaiist blog today I was stunned.  How could Edison Chen, the Hong Kong celebrity at the center of the online sex photo scandal, be nominated as one of the most outstanding persons of the year in 2008, along with others like Barack Obama, Dalai Lama and Wen [...]
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The Shanghaiist reports about a KFC outlet in Hong Kong serving food out of the trash.  Apparently the staff, eager to to get home early, would stop kitchen operations, throw away all leftover food, and start cleaning up before the restaurant closes. Unfortunately,  if an unlucky customer would enter the establishment at that time then [...]
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Ever since Michelin announced they were adding Hong Kong and Macau (as a unit) to their expanding list of restaurant-reviewed cities, the burning question was “what will the Frenchies make of Cantonese food?”  The answer?  Quite mixed.  They have a lot of homework to do before the next edition. From the day the guide was [...]
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From Mop:

To many Hong Kong people, KFC is considered delicious, but can you imagine that this fried chicken might have been taken from the garbage?

Recently, a Yuen Long Plaza [元朗广场] deliveryman created a stir when he said that this restaurant’s staff, in order to get off work on time, often turn off the ovens before [...]

Forget shopping in Dongmen with the Financial Turmoil Hong Kong is offering crazy discounts. Trade up for a nicer shopping environment with discounts just as good if not better taking currency considerations into account. Discounts can be over 50% and the shopping experience is just more pleasurable especially when you factor in the better selection of food for lunch or dinner.

Do you live in Hong Kong?
Consider volunteering some time at the Po Leung Kuk orphanage. Having been involved in helping the children of the Po Leung Kuk orphanage for nearly 7 years now, I can assure you that the rewards are huge.
They may be Hong Kong’s neediest children, but they are also some [...]
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Sources from the Roman Catholic Church confirmed that (…) Guangzhou university professor Ai Xiaoming 艾晓明 has been detained by the Chinese authorities in charge of public security, according to Underthejacaranda.
Sister Beatrice Leung Kit-fun (Sisters of the Precious Blood), professor for political science at the Universities of Macau and Hong Kong, expressed hope that Catholics [...]

A great travel video of Hong Kong from the 1930s. Amazing images.
Notable aspects: Large number of sedan chairs; Chinese-style clothing that has now been replaced by western dress; old HSBC building is the tallest in town (it would now be dwarfed); they refer to WWI as “the World War”; use of the word “oriental”
Anything [...]
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NIC stands for National Intelligence Council, a center for mid-term and long-term strategic thinking and advising the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). It published a document that caught a lot of global attention - sfgate carries a review of press reactions to it on November 20.
Global Trends 2025 - A Transformed World - comes in [...]

Caught film director Oliver Stone for a video in Hong Kong ahead of this weekend Christie’s auction in which some of his Chinese paintings will be sold.
UPDATE: Sale went well. Stone grossed about US$4.4 million (not including Christie’s 15 percent commission), according to Frederik Balfour at Businessweek. The pieces sold include cynical realist painter Liu [...]
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