Entries for the ‘Hong Kong’ Category

Michael Jackson in Hong Kong

With the recent passing of “King of Pop” Michael Jackson, something has to be written about the guy. This brings us to one of his old visit to Hong Kong in 1987 where he wore traditional Chinese garments in a photo shoot with a local celebrity (Fiona Leung). He looked surprisingly good in traditional Chinese [...]

The Rich loses 20% of their Wealth

A financial report from Merrill Lynch has suggested the richest people in the world together recorded a combined lost of 20% of their net worth. Millionaires have also decreased by 15%. Most people on the rich list are from the US, Japan and Germany. With China in the four place beating England for the first [...]

Mongkok Acid Attack Part 3

Yet another acid attack happened in the busy streets of Mongkok, Hong Kong. This is the third time that this had happened in the past couple of months. As much as 24 people was injured in this attack. This time the attack happened just before 8 pm. Following the incident the police was quickly called [...]

20th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square massacre

Despite the water tight censorship across all media in mainland China for the past 20 years, 150 000 Hong Kong people gathered at the Victoria Park to remember the dead of twenty years ago in the Tiananmen Square massacre at local time 20:00 on 04/06/2009. There were at least 3 times more people than the [...]

The Perfect Office Lady

Over in Hong Kong earlier in the week there was a tournament to select the most perfect Office Lady 2009. Ten different ladies wore this summer’s latest office clothing to compete for the title of the Perfect Office Lady. Not sure the whole point of this competition (maybe to market the new summer office collection) [...]

Chinese food is bad

The well known English food magazine “Restaurant” has recently published the Top 50 restaurants in the world. Spain’s El Bulli was crowned for the 4th time in a row. And the rest of the Top 10 concludes with English, French,American and Spanish restaurants. Most of the Top 50 are European restaurants (mainly French). From Asia [...]