Emergency. Emergency. The king of junk mail, Wilson Wong of 'Oxford International Publishing', is at it again.
He sends endless junk faxes to innocent people inviting them to pay to advertise in a book of listings that nobody I know has ever seen. It is called The Directory of Hong Kong B & I. None of his faxes explains what B & I stands for, so we are left to make our own guess. Bull**** and idiocy, perhaps? Multiple copies of these faxes have been received by this writer. Tony Craig of the Westminster Group in Hong Kong received 16 pages of it one morning recently. No doubt widows and orphans are having their precious last scraps of fax paper used up by this firm.
The normal method of getting rid of junk faxes is to report the sender to Hong Kong Telecom. But Wilson has sneakily put no return fax number on his faxes. There is no phone number, so you cannot call and abuse him. His company name is not listed with Hong Kong Telecom, so even that company, with its God-like powers, cannot trace him and stop his terrible trade.
The only contact on his faxes is PO Box 90557, Tsim Sha Tsui. Does anyone know how we can stop him? I thought about a letter bomb, but they are inconveniently illegal. Mind you, one could always use a defence of justification . . . Irritated by people who won't stand on the right of MTR escalators? Well, MTR Corp has put up posters urging patrons to 'be a model passenger'. They are illustrated with little icons demonstrating correct behaviour. One of these depicts a person on an escalator . . .
standing on the left. There were odd happenings at a lunch on Friday organised by Arts Optical International Holdings, a Hong Kong maker of spectacles.
Chairman Michael Ng Hoi-ying was excited. He accidentally let a document about the company's new share offering (scheduled to be announced today) into a reporter's hands - and staff had to demand it back.
Another hack noticed that one of the pairs of glasses on display was labelled 'Montagut' - a brand exclusively distributed in this region by First Sign International. The scribe asked Mr Ng if there was some deal in which his firm was making Montagut specs.