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Museum in evil foreign plot to keep motherland down

# 2013-04-23 17:27:57, Big Lychee, Various Sectors
Why are dockworkers striking and, in particular, protesting outside tycoon Li Ka-shing’s home? You thought it was because of pay and conditions, property hegemony and cartelization? China Daily corrects you… …the opposition camp and the foreign powers supporting it are preparing to seize Hong ...

Enjoy Yourself Tonight

# 2013-04-22 17:18:32, Big Lychee, Various Sectors
When bureaucracies are not using it to crucify harmless nonentities to justify their existence, the criminal justice system is a reliable source of entertainment. Hong Kong today settles down into its easy chair to watch two juicy cases unfold: the trial of feng-shui master/born-again Christian/Nina Wang toyboy Tony/Peter Chan for forging...

Prosecutors might go after people who aren’t poor

# 2013-04-21 17:34:12, Big Lychee, Various Sectors
In Norway, if you commit 77 murders you get a 21-year (extendable) prison sentence. In Singapore, the penalty for overstaying your visa can be caning as well as jail. But at least they have reputations for being consistent. Hong Kong can’t decide whether it is namby-pamby liberal or viciously cr...

Occupy Central starts early, pro-dems fail to show

# 2013-04-18 17:16:20, Big Lychee, Various Sectors
One of the Hongkong International Terminals contractors abruptly announces that it is shutting down, leaving hundreds of its striking port workers without an employer. The tactic is clearly designed to scare the strikers into accepting the pay offer currently on the table. The supposedly laid-off do...

Ninth Commandment to hit Hong Kong

# 2013-04-17 16:55:40, Big Lychee, Various Sectors
Stores and street-market stalls in Hong Kong sell fruit and vegetables in non-transparent bags. A clear label on the outside tells you how many pieces of produce are in the bag and what the total price is – for example, six oranges for HK$20. However, there is a catch: retailers lie about the numb...

Gold bugs vs voices of sanity, cont’d

# 2013-04-16 16:39:37, Big Lychee, Various Sectors
Bitcoins, gold and silver crash, and Forbes asks ‘what next?’ According to the conspiracy theories floating around, the rapid drop in the value of gold happened because the US government, big banks and funds chose this time to organize a massive short. Why? The Federal Reserve wants people to ho...

Spam and tycoons: equally invincible

# 2013-04-15 17:29:28, Big Lychee, Various Sectors
Yesterday, rising food prices were giving the poor ‘generalized anxiety disorder’, for which a psychiatrist prescribed ‘having fun while shopping for bargains’. Today, the Consumer Council’s Michael Hui pleads with retailers “to scale their prices down and live with the Hong Kong people ...

Unhappy poor are mentally diseased, says Chinese U

# 2013-04-14 16:23:52, Big Lychee, Various Sectors
People who can barely afford to feed themselves tend to be miserable. This stunning, Nobel-class discovery comes to us from the Mood Disorders Centre of Hong Kong’s Chinese University. If the unhappiness continues for over six months, it is classified as ‘generalized anxiety disorder’. Quoted ...

Martin Lee suggests the unsuggestible

# 2013-04-11 16:53:26, Big Lychee, Various Sectors
Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony has the subtitle A Soviet Artist’s Response to Just Criticism because the work was supposed to atone for his misdeeds – producing imaginative and un-socialist music that displeased Stalin, who at that time in the late 1930s was sending mill...

Lau Siu-kai, David Akers-Jones discover solution to tourism menace

# 2013-04-10 16:50:38, Big Lychee, Various Sectors
Aficionados of the art of unrestrained, indeed compulsively incontinent, shoe-shining reach with glee for their favourite sick-bags this morning as the Standard indulges in an unseemly double-grovel of tycoon Li Ka-shing and his number-one son Victor. The paper leads with the story of how the pluto...

The insurmountable horrors of standard working hours and Occupy Central

# 2013-04-09 17:24:17, Big Lychee, Various Sectors
The committee considering statutory maximum working hours in Hong Kong will take up to three years to produce its recommendations. Sounds as if the body is practicing an extreme version of what it has yet to preach, by strictly limiting its efforts to no more than – what? – 30 minutes per week....

Farewell, Maggie

# 2013-04-08 17:15:14, Big Lychee, Various Sectors
RIP former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013). Anyone whose death prompts dancing in the street among ‘adult education tutors’ and the Socialist Workers Party in London and Glasgow must have been truly magnificent. People hated her almost pathologically to the very last because she disproved the existence of the gods they...

NPP possibly not totally awful and useless

# 2013-04-07 17:28:02, Big Lychee, Various Sectors
Whatever happened to former Security Secretary Regina Ip’s New People’s Party? One minute they were poised to become the silent-majority, sensible-centrist, ultra-moderate, middle-class answer to the trouble-making, unpatriotic radical chic of the Civic Party. The next minute they’ve faded int...

Threats and opportunities – North Korea, striking dockers and investigative journalists

# 2013-04-04 17:07:52, Big Lychee, Various Sectors
North Korea makes a big public show of activating nuclear facilities and threatening to raze Washington DC to the ground, while the US flies B2s around the planet via Pyongyang and grandly orders its flashy-if-it-works anti-missile system into Guam. And do the world’s stock markets collapse (Hong ...

City in shock as dock workers found to be sexy

# 2013-04-02 17:09:07, Big Lychee, Various Sectors
In a sense, industrial relations problems are by definition the fault of the bosses; a management that does its job properly doesn’t get trouble from employees. The exact rights and wrongs at Kwai Tsing container terminals are complicated by the fact that port operator Hongkong International Termi...