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Year of the Rabbit

18th January 2023 Going Postal 2

When I first arrived in Hong Kong, many years ago, I bought a microwave grill for the new flat from Park and Shop, a big supermarket chain. Could it be delivered? “Yes, when do you [more…]

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Tears & Teargas

4th January 2022 Going Postal 0

Those of you with longer and good memories may remember my article from January 2019 about protests in Hong Kong and titled ‘The whiff of teargas’. After recovering from the said tear gas, I wrote: [more…]

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Lives, damned lives and statistics

14th January 2021 Going Postal 0

On January 11th, the BBC and Sky each made great play of ‘the worst excess deaths since the second world war’ announced for 2020. This clearly conveyed a message that the corona virus was indeed [more…]

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Hong Kong: Corona Virus, Conspiracy and Control

25th May 2020 Going Postal 0

Hong Kong has apparently had a ‘good’ corona virus pandemic. Cases reported at a little over 1000 are, for a densely populated area of 8 million, modest. The four deaths arising from this very small [more…]

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Hong Kong – The whiff of tear gas

28th January 2020 Going Postal 0

There has been something of a lull in Hong Kong recently: Christmas, Calendar New Year and the Lunar New year to come at the end of the week have contributed to a pause in the [more…]

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Hong Kong Protests – the Prequel

21st November 2019 Going Postal 0

The recent ‘Hong Kong Protests’ piece attracted several comments and questions, but notably ‘Why now?’ and ‘What started this?’ So here is ‘Hong Kong Protests – the Prequel’. A long time ago, during the premiership [more…]

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Hong Kong Protests

9th November 2019 Going Postal 0

Hong Kong in November feels and looks very different than it did in May. The weather is glorious – the wind has changed, the humidity decreased and a very comfortable 25 degrees. But of course [more…]

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