Tag Archives: Hong Kong

Coked up bankers of Hong Kong

The financial community in Hong Kong is buried in white powder according to one friend of a Hong Kong-based banker who recently jumped to his death after a cocaine binge.

What is going on?

Continue reading

Posted in Crime, Financial crisis | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Coked up bankers of Hong Kong

Hong Kong hostages die in Manila bus hijack

Like other major newspapers today in China, the Jinan Times goes with the Manila hostage story, depicting scene from yesterday evening inside a bloody bullet hole design.

Continue reading

Posted in Front Page of the Day | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off on Hong Kong hostages die in Manila bus hijack

China’s Graduate Dilemma

From SooksTV a short clip about finding a job in the capital and living prices in Hong Kong.

Continue reading

Posted in Featured Video | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on China’s Graduate Dilemma

TIME‘s Austin Ramzy on GDP growth, the Global Media Summit and the TIME China blog

Austin Ramzy has been reporting for TIME for 6 years, starting in Hong Kong and moving to Beijing in 2007. Since then he has covered the Hong Kong Chief Executive election in 2007, the Beijing Olympics, Wenchuan earthquake and the Xinjiang riots.

Continue reading

Posted in Foreign media on China | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on TIME‘s Austin Ramzy on GDP growth, the Global Media Summit and the TIME China blog

The riot was much more serious than the one in Tibet last year: reporting from Xinjiang

Bruce, Lui Ping Kuen, is Hong Kong Cable TV’s China correspondent and was on the scene at the early July ethnic clash in Xinjiang. Danwei asks him about the reaction of Hong Kong media as well as other views.

Continue reading

Posted in Media | Tagged , , | Comments Off on The riot was much more serious than the one in Tibet last year: reporting from Xinjiang

Ethnic integration policies and the Han costume

Rose Luqiu Luwei recently wrote a blog about Hong Kong’s new policy to prevent racism within its multi-ethnic community of Southeast Asians and Indians. Leung Man-tao, blogger, book writer and well-known host of Phoenix TV, wrote for Southern Weekend in April 2008 on the issue of race in China.

Continue reading

Posted in Protests | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on Ethnic integration policies and the Han costume

China in the 1920s

Found via Liuzhou Laowai, a 1920s silent film shot in Beijing, Shenyang, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Continue reading

Posted in Featured Video | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on China in the 1920s

Hong Kong air pollution rap

Hong Kong’s MC Yan works with Greenpeace to challenge air pollution in this video.

Continue reading

Posted in Featured Video | Tagged , , | Comments Off on Hong Kong air pollution rap

Get a Hong Kong ID for your Beijing baby

A company that offers a service to help expecting parents from the Mainland have their babies in Kong.

Continue reading

Posted in Advertising and Marketing | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off on Get a Hong Kong ID for your Beijing baby

London 2012: Backwards walking

A 7-second video of an unusual form of morning exercise spotted on the way up to the Peak in Hong Kong.

Continue reading

Posted in The Thomas Crampton Channel | Tagged , , | Comments Off on London 2012: Backwards walking