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Suicide cliff is one of the most researched topics for readers arriving on this blog. I do regularly edit this post as to give you more information on the conditions and the route to follow for the hike. Look at the slideshow for a visual description of the route. You have below a Google maps […]
Interesting example of cross-cultural influence when you come across a rendition of “La Vie en Rose” of Edith Piaf in a Hong Kong minibus.
At night, in Mongkok’s walking street, a man walks past as shops are closing.
Despite the bad weather and intermittent showers, many Hongkongese were curious enough this Sunday, to take a walk past the HK Disneyland pier to get a better view of the sole Chinese aircraft carrier, the Liaoning. A photoshoot occasion With a good dose of propaganda by the Beijing-held SCMP, many locals, photographers and ordinary inhabitants […]
Hong Kong has a worldwide reputation for being a semi tax heaven. This reputation hangs mainly on the concept of territoriality for taxes, which in turn gave birth to the very interesting concept of the “offshore status”. More can be learned (from a very technical point of view) by reading the Departmental Interpretation and Practice […]
In Hong Kong, on Nathan Road, a young lady was waiting for her bus. The street lights in the background made a lovely backdrop for the scene.
This post was written back in 2017, but things have not changed much since. If anything, things have gotten worse as those who could, in the lower strata of society, attempted to move to the UK. In Hong Kong, besides the glamourous life of Central, there are a lot of elderly people who try to […]
Two years ago, a movement started in Hong Kong, initiated by a group of young students whose energy and determination brought a megalopolis to a standstill from September 2014 to December 2014. Since then, the movement got bogged down in its own indecision and some obvious frustration and hesitation on the proper strategy to follow […]