Millennium

Forget doomsday, we've more pressing issues to worry over

16 Dec 2012

The last incredible apocalyptic scenario came and went 12 years ago with barely a hiccup. Remember Y2K, or the millennium bug? Yet predictions without any basis in science or reason continue to...

Key question is whether material extent of interference exceeded the neck margin between them at the line

12 Mar 2001

Racing at Happy Valley is never dull and Wednesday's meeting was perhaps the most eventful and controversial of the season.

Project encourages young people to read

6 Jul 2000

A 'Millennium Reading Pledge' project has been launched to stimulate young people's interest in reading and continued education.

Fownes to weave more Magic with Millennium

2 Feb 2000

Millennium Magic underscored his liking for the straight 1,000-metre chute with a useful win in the first of six trials at Sha Tin yesterday.

The Lawrie Fownes-trained gelding ran a...

Celebrations informal

19 Jan 2000

We thank Dr Wong Yee-him, Kowloon City District Councillor, for his comments on the Millennium Extravaganza at Happy Valley on New Year's Eve (letter, South China Morning Post, January 15).

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Damp squib

Our two guests from New York stood with a small, happy crowd of tourists on the Lippo footbridge at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day, waiting in vain for harbour fireworks.

New beginnings

It was the most monitored midnight in history. People around the globe passed over the threshold into a new age - from those on tiny Millennium Island in the Pacific, who were the first to see the...

Fright night

The end of the world is nigh! If it is not the millennium bug that will get us, it could be biological bugs that strike at the heart of the human race, as we are to find out tonight.

Bugged by millennium debate

Surely the biggest problem with regard to the calculation of the date of the millennium is that the 'Letters To The Editor' pages are full of boring letters about calculating the date of the...

Simple logic

The very simple logic of Jesse Brown (South China Morning Post, July 10) proves Geoff Alves (Post, June 15) to be absolutely correct.

Wrong date

I refer to my letter headlined, 'Innocent mistake' (South China Morning Post, July 17) about the debate on the starting date of the new millennium.