Monthly Archives: June 2012

The South China Morning Post celebrates the 15th anniversary of the handover with a magazine supplement cover that surely qualifies for Most Grotesque and Inept Graphic Design Concept of the Year Award: the official stylized bauhinia flower growing out of … Continue reading →

Hong Kong Chief Executive-elect CY Leung’s trellis scandal has been upgraded to a ‘glass-covered frame’ outrage (with termites). Spy satellite photos revealing the extent of the barbarity appear in the South China Morning Post. Note how the colour of the … Continue reading →

The cataclysmic ‘Trellisgate’ scandal outrage mayhem shock horror massacre of 2012 continues. Sources vary, but it seems the Democratic Party has been threatening to apply for a judicial review or submit an election petition (normally used after dirty New Territories … Continue reading →

China’s President Hu Jintao visits Hong Kong this weekend to swear in trellis-wolf-man CY Leung as new Chief Executive and celebrate the 15th anniversary of the city’s return to the motherland. He comes in the midst of an opportunistic and … Continue reading →

In America, everyone from ex-President Jimmy Carter on down admits to having lusted and thus committed adultery in their heart. In Hong Kong, where as we all know the definition of a queer is someone who prefers sex to money, … Continue reading →

The body is still warm – still breathing, indeed – but the historical revisionism has already begun. China Daily reports that Chief Executive Donald Tsang believes he did a wonderful job, and adds that this is surely so, thanks of … Continue reading →

With more than 20% of the world’s population, it would not be surprising that China has over a fifth of its disaster, outrage and tragedy. And, oh boy, does it deliver. There is only so much you can read about … Continue reading →

After one ‘Hong Kong-based activist Tom Grundy’ tried to make a citizen’s arrest for war crimes of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair here last week, I thought the award for Self-Righteous Pretentious Bore of the Year had a clear … Continue reading →

Is it too early to be writing Chief Executive Donald Tsang’s obituary? The man does, after all, have another dozen days to go before handing over to sinister Wolf-Man populist unknown-quantity Spartan/Transylvanian/Tartar CY Leung – and the latter might, for … Continue reading →

To some commentators in Britain, Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing’s takeover of the London Metal Exchange is part of a diabolical plot by Communist China to control or manipulate the world’s commodities markets. Or it is a last vestige of … Continue reading →