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Cold at Chinese New Year? 18 Jan 2012 | 10:27 pm
You’ll hear it this week (if you haven’t heard it already): Chinese New Year is coming up, so it’s going to be cold! The assumption that Chinese New Year (CNY hereafter) invariably brings a cold snap...
A peaceful walk in Hong Kong 17 Feb 2011 | 02:00 pm
The research study that I have long awaited has finally been published. An article in the Wall Street Journal summarizes the work of researchers in the USA who have identified and analysed ‘Pedestrian...
How to start a one-man business in Hong Kong 28 Sep 2010 | 09:35 pm
I'm just starting on this, so I'll jot down notes as I go along. There are three options for starting a company in Hong Kong: a sole proprietor, a limited partnership, or a limited liability company ...
Hong Kong museums 24 Mar 2010 | 12:00 pm
Although I've mentioned Hong Kong's museums in an article on things to do for visitors, I thought I'd spend a bit more time discussing their relative merits -- and deficiencies. I feel much more quali...
How to get rid of mould? 11 Feb 2010 | 02:00 pm
Oh warm and fertile Spring, new growth bursting out all around. Which in our flat means mouldy ceilings. I gaze up at it as I lie in bed each morning. No more peaceful lie-ins, instead I watch it's ...
Hong Kong's Urban Heat Island 5 Feb 2010 | 02:00 pm
The theme of my first Hong Kong climate change article was simple: average yearly temperatures here have been going up more less steadily since the Hong Kong Observatory (HKO) starting keeping track o...
Climate change in Hong Kong 29 Jan 2010 | 02:00 pm
The message from the Hong Kong Observatory is unequivocal: global warming is real; it’s affecting Hong Kong’s recent and current weather in obvious ways; and future trends for the world, and perhaps f...
Where do you shop? 19 Nov 2009 | 02:00 pm
In particular, where do you go to buy TVs, cameras, computers, mobile phones, etc? Our suggestions about this on batgung are around six years old. Then we wrote about visiting small stores to get a g...
Teaching kids about race 29 Oct 2009 | 12:00 pm
There’s a remarkable article on kids and race in a recent issue of Newsweek magazine (yes, Newsweek actually still exists). The article’s authors, the novelist Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, have wri...
Twenty years in Hong Kong 22 Oct 2009 | 01:00 pm
20 Oct 1989. That's the first Hong Kong stamp in my passport. Twenty years already? That's gone past quickly. Will I be here for another twenty? Our younger daughter is only three, and we want her t...
