Nick Walker

Megachange: The World in 2050 (The Economist)

13 May 2012

Megachange: The World in 2050 (The Economist)
edited by D. Franklin, John Andrews
The Economist

This book looks at our world 38 years from now. That's 38 orbits of the...

2:50PM

5 May 2012

To employ an oft-used term from his native Australia, Andrew Grant 'rocked up' into Hong Kong last month, impressing the audience at the 'Who Killed Creativity?' seminar - co-sponsored by...

2:12PM

Self-employed of the world - unite!

30 Mar 2012

Shocking statistical warning: By some estimates, more than 20 million jobs disappeared in the developed world during the global financial crisis and its aftermath.

11:33AM

Conservation by Murder: Man-eaters of Sundarbans

11 Mar 2012

Conservation by Murder: Man-eaters of Sundarbans
by Sudipt Dutta (self-published)

9:47AM

Bright spark for dim iPad users

25 Feb 2012

Last year, one of my Facebook pals posted the 'news' that she had become so fed up with her pre-teen daughter's demands for an iPad that she had simply bought her one. Nice humble-brag, lady....

8:19AM

Ellen Poon, visual effects supervisor

7 Aug 2011

What I'm reading: I've returned to Huckleberry Finn. I first read it when I was young and didn't really understand a lot of its meanings and subtexts. Now that I've lived in the US for the past 20...

4:32PM

Opinion

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

3:33AM

Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

3:35AM

Why 'ride an elephant to catch a grasshopper'?

Derived from the Kradai language group, with origins in the misty valleys of southwest China, Thai is a tonal language with more than 65million speakers.

12:54PM

German in the English-speaking world

Abseil In both languages this means to rope oneself down a rock face or some similar vertical surface, usually used in the context of rock-climbing. Abseiling is popular in the Bavarian Alps, but...

6:46AM

Icon sweetens GDP amid political toothache

Ubiquitous in airport duty-free shops the world over and iconoclastically triangular in the rectangular chocolate universe, Toblerone is more than just another world-beating Swiss brand.

3:52PM

Artist 'finds himself' in the lap of luxury

Everyday opulence - that's Four Seasons Place in a nutshell. One temporary resident, who is not a BlackBerry-wielding, globe-trotting executive but a former recording artist, is penning a...

7:15AM

Shared views on what makes a deal ideal

Massive multinationals and the visiting self-employed businessman have much in common - they seek to make good in a town whose business is business, they need to be close to all the profitable...

7:12AM

QUIT IT

Quit smoking

Most Hong Kong hospitals and many clinics have smoking-cessation programmes. Try:

Ruttonjee Hospital, Wan Chai,

tel: 2291 2000

...

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