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• Pay as you read 2 months ago Interesting piece from Gweipo about newspapers: Buy a newspaper - save a journalist? I've been subjected to a barrage of emails of late by the IHT. And the Wall street journal. And the NYT. [..] Why did I resist? A...
• Learning English? 2 months ago I think I may have noticed a theme to these “Dean Fung English” articles" in the Hong Kong Standard:
• Cheese 2 months ago They had another one of those International Cheese Festivals at Hullett House in TST. The problem is that the cheese market is in a tiny room. I had to wait in a queue before I was allowed in, but there...
• Spotify - in Chinese, of course 2 months ago I’m obviously not paying attention, so I only found out from Spike that Spotify is now available in Hong Kong. There’s the usual pantomime with a default page that is only in Chinese, and no obvious way to change to...
• Warped 2 months ago Why is the SCMP still printing these tedious letters from Pierce Lam? As well as attacking the ESF (yawn) he is now trying to defend the “designated schools” scheme: Why officials should end ESF subsidy South China Morning Post |...

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