(some pics of SSP)… Read More

S: it’s the most capitalist place in the world, you cant have children protection trump marketing and advertisement J: even on a govt website? While on the HKSAR Labour Department’s website, I noticed a link on the bottom of the page: “This website supports protection of children on Internet.” After clicking it, I was very confused by the page that … Read More

If Mr Friedman had a favourite economy, it was Hong Kong. Its astonishing economic success convinced him that although economic freedom was necessary for political freedom, the converse was not true: political liberty, though desirable, was not needed for economies to be free. Why, he asked, had Hong Kong thrived when Britain, which controlled it until 1997, was so statist … Read More

11.00: shamefully eat a bowl of indonesian instant noodles, so I can rush to meet my group for our presentation tomorrow.
11.30: our presentation is about …… Read More

I’ve been really impressed by the Economist’s semi-recent institution of a “correspondent’s diary”–essentially a 5-day blog, each time written by a different foreign correspondent. this week’s is on Hong Kong and Taiwan (“Long-haired radicals seize power”), and muses whether the former–on the 10-year anniversary of its return to the Mainland–has been a shining example of “one country, two systems” (the … Read More

After the takeover in 1997, the Government of Hong Kong commissioned a team of economists, physicians, epidemiologists, and public health specialists from Harvard University to conduct a study on Hong Kong’s health care system. An extract from their report: One explanation for the highly variable quality of medical services in Hong Kong is the privilege enjoyed by the medical profession … Read More

why are these boats so big?? why is the harbour so small? this is just weird.