Posts Tagged ‘Hong Kong’

FROM SEXY SIREN to FRUMPY MUMMY

Saturday, September 18th, 2010
HONG Kong siren Christy Chung is back in action.

Foreign Objects: Shinjuku Incident

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent , this week we’re heading to… Hong Kong! Living in the United States it’s easy to forget that we’re not the only country to offer a better alternative to the lives people are born into. The US/Mexican border is a revolving door where thousands of “tourists” come through on a daily basis. Some come for th

Weekly Extract: The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Jeremy LoCurtoAll articles by this authorCommentsTrackbackTagsPrintTechnoratiDigg this This week’s extract comes from Janice Y. K. Lee’s acclaimed debut novel, The Piano Teacher. Picked by the Richard and Judy book club as a summer read, The Piano Teacher is a compelling and engrossing tale of two love affairs set against the backdrop of mid-century Hong Kong.May 1952It started as an accident. The small Herend rabbit had fallen into Claire’s handbag. It had been on the piano and she had been ga

Bangkok Post : HELMETS SAVE LIVES (Bangkok Post - Thailand’s English news)

Saturday, March 14th, 2009
This letter endeavours to reach out to the parents whose children ride around on motorbikes without helmets. We are two colleagues from Hong Kong who often work out here in Thailand, and are both certified first aiders.