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Uh, happy Earth Day? Fixing Hong Kong's smog

# 2013-04-22 08:25:44, Joyceyland
Photo by Jerome Favre/Bloomberg An undoctored image of smog shrouding the ICC in West Kowloon last week, one MTR stop from where I live and take my baby to the park. No, that is not fog or precipitation. It was actually "sunny" that day -- all the grey is man-made.This post was meant to celebrate Ea...

Are you still eating Chinese pork and poultry?

# 2013-04-03 05:42:26, Joyceyland
Photo by The Associated Press

In shocking development, media dares comment on male actor's body part

# 2013-04-01 07:09:34, Joyceyland
Celebrities love complaining about the trappings of fame (thereby spurring the tabloid-machine into making them even more famous) the same way presidential hopefuls love dismissing rumors that they are going to make a run for office (thereby spurring the media machine to talk endlessly about their f...

New England lobster boil in Hong Kong

# 2013-01-27 08:07:49, Joyceyland
If I remember correctly, live lobster was US $2.99 a pound when I was a kid in New England.

Warm Christmas wishes (and some dancing and singing)

# 2012-12-24 06:24:08, Joyceyland
I haven't been sure what to feel (or write) during this normally happy time of year, since 2012 ended in such horror in a town nearly identical to the Connecticut community I grew up in.

A hunka hunka burnin' North Korean love

# 2012-11-27 16:24:06, Joyceyland
The People's Daily have somehow read The Onion literally. And, barely containing their excitement that a Western media outlet named Kim Jong-Un the Sexiest Man Alive, went off and produced a celebratory 55-PAGE photo slideshow of him. The link is hereHere's the text: Edited and translated by Zhang Q...

What to wear to work: Autumn edition

# 2012-11-03 07:27:48, Joyceyland
Do you know what I do when I feel overwhelmed? When I'm balancing editing, work travel and a baby -- and also feeling guilty about my many unfulfilled goals: losing weight, going to the gym, bettering my Chinese, finishing my novel? I wait for both baby and husband to be asleep, and I Polyvore. The ...

Heading out for I.H.T. education conferences

# 2012-10-13 06:03:02, Joyceyland
After I returned to work from maternity leave less than a year ago, I took on a new role as the I.H.T.'s education editor.I've had a new beat to follow, a new range of responsibilities, a new roster of writers to handle - and a whole new set of things to do, which go beyond the writing and editing t...

Happy Birthday, Clare Hollingworth

# 2012-10-10 09:00:05, Joyceyland
Tonight, I went to Clare Hollingworth's champagne-fueled 101st birthday party at the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents Club. I first met Clare in 1999, when I was a young editorial assistant at the now-defunct Boston Globe Hong Kong bureau, and Clare was a sprightly 88-year-old retiree.She was far mo...

Happy birthday to us, happy birthday to us

# 2012-10-06 06:48:04, Joyceyland
At the ol' FCC in my retro New York Herald Tribune t-shirt.Aside from posting my own articles here (something I've been lax at recently) I rarely use my personal blog to promote work stuff.But I'm going to make an exception, since I think the International Herald Tribune's 125th birthday is pretty c...

A city on the water mourns its dead

# 2012-10-04 06:02:33, Joyceyland
Photo via The Associated Press

Hong Kong's old lantern stalls, and why mooncakes are good revolutionary foods

# 2012-09-28 21:12:48, Joyceyland
There is still a place in this city where an honest old vendor will sell you a pretty pink paper lantern for three Hong Kong dollars -- that's 38 cents -- and then refuse when you tell him to keep the change, instead pressing a coin into your baby daughter's hand.

Amahs, Ayis and Spoiled Kids

# 2012-09-23 07:43:05, Joyceyland
The endless articles about the social problems caused by "little emperors" (and "empresses") always quote doctors, child psychologists and experts.Whom they should really quote are amahs and ayis, the army of mostly poorer Asian women who are raising these children in Hong Kong, Singapore, China, Jakarta, etc.I have nothing against the us...