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Becoming Acquainted with Hong Kong Kowloon Ferry
So coming home after a brief sojourn I return to our new ferry service. Higher prices and a new ferry company using the old Yaumatei Ferry boats. Within 10 minutes of sitting down on a late night fast ferry, we've killed two cockroaches climbing on the seats. One eye is kept open the rest of the... Read more...
Published 11 hours ago
More Paranoid Security Theater For The Olympics
Ming Pao this morning reports on how the CCP[?] at least in Beijing has banned mailing CDs and other AV materials in order to curb potential mass mailings by the Falun Gong, Tibet independence and Xinjiang "reactionary elements". These orders came in to effect on June 1st, but are being reported... Read more...
Published 1 week ago
China Doesn't Interfere Except When It Does
From the Times of India comes a story about China not interfering in foreign countries' internal politics except when it does, like this time with China meddling in Nepal's internal politics. In a bid to suppress all pro-Tibet demonstrations and activities in Nepal, the Himalayan nation's giant... Read more...
Published 1 week ago
The CCP Orders Tighter Media Controls
From the Financial Times comes the story on the CCP[?] ordering tighter media controls. Party newspapers said on Tuesday that all domestic media had been ordered to “earnestly study and implement” a speech last week by President Hu Jintao, laying out guiding principles for development of... Read more...
Published 1 week ago
Cue Up The Jaws Theme
click on the image for a larger view Is that a shark fin I spot south of Hong Kong? No, no, no. It's Severe Tropical Storm FengShen on the 256km radar for the HK Observatory. Click on the live radar feed right now and you can spot the wonderful counter-clockwise rotation of the storm as it spins... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago
China's Petrol Price Increase
Let me back up to June 2, 2008 and this catch by Lady Oscar of a Straits Times reprint of a Reuters article - China fuel shortages hit central Beijing, Shanghai. FUEL shortages reached into the heart of China's capital and its financial hub as energy majors cut output to limit losses from low... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago
CCP Flacks Can Critique CCP Corruption Too
RTHK[?] News, which is showing off today a brand new spiffy look, touches on a report on mainland corruption. An anti-graft plan says corruption on the mainland is grim. And it warns that the survival of the communist party rests on its ability to curb graft. The 2008 to 2012 strategy called for... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago
Overseas Market Journalism Noticing HKEx Shenanigans
Sunday's Marketwatch column from Craig Stephen is entitled "Retail Investors: Beware of HK Shenanigans". We know Hong Kong authorities have been troubled over how to consolidate their market's position as the mainland's listing hub, but in the hurry to achieve this, some interests may be... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago
Respect for Intellectual Property Rights in China and the Chinese Blogosphere?
I always love the obligatory hand wringing over intellectual property rights in China by those who are paid by clients to wring their hands over intellectual property rights. The actual level of concern over intellectual property rights in the English-language Greater China blogosphere is noted... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago
FoxConn Announces Strategic Withdrawal
Just saw this up on HK Headline news. 富士康搬廠減成本 Foxconn is looking to move their factory out of Shenzhen. The immediate thought is Hebei and Shanxi provinces as the provincial salaries there are 60% of Shenzhen's. Also note this:... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago
