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1. Comment - Blogs

   Landmark ruling for transsexual echoes far and wide

   Posted May 13th 2013, 08:53pm by Hong Kong Around the World

   ... the judgment a “resounding victory”. He told the Gay Star News , which covers LGBT news: “That marriage ordinance should be read to include transgender women and also our human rights point was taken, in that it was a breach of her constitutional rights [to marry]. We won on both grounds, which was nice.” Reports by the BBC, Daily Mail , Wall Street Journal and Associated Press news service point out ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1236966/landmark-ruling-transsexual-echoes-far-and-wide
2. News - World

   Top British firms condemned for prolific use of tax havens

   Posted May 13th 2013, 04:28pm by Guardian News Service

   ... shiny brass plates in shady places. “Cameron and Osborne can’t strut the world stage as fair tax crusaders until they end this tax abuse, starting with the banks we own, RBS and Lloyds." ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1236823/top-british-firms-condemned-prolific-use-tax-havens
3. Comment - Blogs

   Diaoyus dispute encapsulates the Hong Kong identity crisis

   Posted May 05th 2013, 07:48pm by Hong Kong Around the World

   ... with Cambodia, Myanmar, mainland China and North Korea. Hong Kong celebrates May Day with anti-laojiao videos AsiaNews, the Catholic Church’s press agency, reports on documentary films screened in Hong ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1230746/diaoyus-dispute-encapsulates-hong-kong-identity-crisis
4. Comment - Blogs

   Milk powder beats out heroin in smuggling arrests - huh?

   Posted Apr 29th 2013, 11:33am by Hong Kong Around the World

   ... reported in the South China Morning Post . Vancouver Academy of Music helping to launch new school in Hong Kong A Vancouver news portal reports on a transformation for the historic Haw Par Mansion. ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1225850/milk-powder-beats-out-heroin-smuggling-arrests-huh
5. News - Hong Kong - ARTS

   'Friendly' Rubber Duck makes a splash in Hong Kong

   Posted Apr 25th 2013, 09:50am by Hong Kong Around the World

   ... installation has made it to Hong Kong's waters after waddling around the world, in Sydney, Auckland, Osaka, Sao Paulo, Hasselt and other places. The 16.5-metre-high Rubber Duck will be bobbing ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1222646/friendly-rubber-duck-makes-splash-hong-kong
6. Comment - Blogs

   The American doctor is in, to do a bird flu check-up

   Posted Apr 21st 2013, 09:11pm by Hong Kong Around the World

   ... Comment Blogs H7N9 avian flu Bird Flu HKEye Smog Eldes Tran eldes.tran@scmp.com Hong Kong is paid a visit by Dr Richard Besser, ABC News’ chief health and medical editor in the US. Other stories: Spotify, iPhone 5, smog and ArtWalk As the avian flu outbreak spread on mainland China last week, Hong Kong was paid a visit by Dr Richard Besser, ABC News’ chief health and medical editor ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1220072/american-doctor-do-bird-flu-check
7. Comment - Blogs

   Nothing but sceptics on Occupy Central idea

   Posted Apr 15th 2013, 05:14pm by Hong Kong Around the World

   ... Kerry church’s prayers with cheque from Hong Kong An Irish news portal publishes a story on a Good Samaritan. Also picked up by the South China Morning Post ’s John Carney Li Ka-shing ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1215267/nothing-sceptics-occupy-central-idea
8. Comment - Blogs

   Britain did a good job with Hong Kong for the world, said Margaret Thatcher (video)

   Posted Apr 09th 2013, 07:46pm by Hong Kong Around the World

   ... believes Britain did a good job with the territory in the last years of colonial rule. A good job for Hong Kong, a good job for the world... Britain has demonstrated that Chinese people ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1210917/britain-did-good-job-hong-kong-world-says-margaret-thatcher-video
9. Lifestyle - Books

   Money talks in Mohsin Hamid's third novel

   Posted Apr 14th 2013, 12:00am by Guardian News&Media

   ... laughs. "It said: 'We particularly loved the drugs and sex scenes.' I think implicit is the critique that in The Reluctant Fundamentalist I didn't deliver." Guardian News ...

   http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1213007/money-talks-mohsin-hamids-third-novel
10. Lifestyle - Books

    Book review: Wave, a Memoir of Life After the Tsunami

    Posted Apr 14th 2013, 12:00am by Guardian News&Media

    ... And the three silly boys would fall about laughing. Now I sit in this garden in New York, and I hear them, jubilant, gleeful on our lawn." Guardian News & Media ...

    http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1213008/book-review-wave-memoir-life-after-tsunami

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