Time Out Hong Kong: Why Tycoons Take All Your Money

The current issue of Time Out Hong Kong takes a look at Hong Kong's Big Four Tycoons: Li Ka-shing, Thomas and Raymond Kwok, Lee Shau-kee, Cheng Yu-tung.

If you are in Hong Kong, it's worth shelling out the HK$18... it's a good read and buying the mag is a vote of confidence.


Written by blog-meister Hemlock (over here) the magazine's 'tycoon feature' explains:

 "Who they are, how they got rich and, in particular, how the grasping parasitical scum are squeezing the lifeblood out of you 24 hours a day. Oh – and how our government, when it’s not looking the other way, runs around actively helping them do it."

Out of town? Here: Li Ka-shing and Thomas and Raymond Kwok and Lee Shau-kee and Cheng Yu-tung.

Plus, One Degree of Separation and Evil Overloads or Lucky Devils?

Enjoy!

Rule by 19-year-old photographers beckons

Wing Lee Street: Big Lychee, Various Sectors

Reading matters

Who's scarfing it down: Big Lychee

Reading mattters

Hemlock writes:

"A date which will live in infamy . . . Geocities, the evil multinational conglomerate that produces its shoddy and environmentally destructive Internet services in Dickensian sweatshops in its ruthless quest for profit, saw fit – as part of its imminent closure – to bar me, wild American friend Odell, the Big Boss and delectable Administrative Officer Winky Ip from our very own home from the middle of last week. They have let me back in briefly in order to retrieve a few essentials, but otherwise this is it. Cast out into the wilderness with maximum prejudice aforethought.
Souvenir hunters, the nostalgic, and the terminally bored are welcome to poke around here – the lights go out permanently at Geocities around the end of October."

Looking forward? A "blog" by D. Ah, here it is: Big Lychee

Hong Kong: two (2) reviews of locally-published books

Alice Poon reviews We Deserve Better: Hong Kong since 1997, by Hemlock: Asia Sentinel
Hemlock reviews King Hui: The Man Who Owned All The Opium in Hong Kong, by Jonathan Chamberlain: Hemlock

Hong Kong: Ma Lik

Hong Kong legislator, member of the Basic Law Steering Committee, chairman of the pro-Beijing political party Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), Mister Ma Lik sat down for tea with some journalists earlier this week.

So it was that in between sips of Jasmin, Ma explained that Hong Kong was not ready for universal suffrage because, for starters, many Hong Kong people wrongly believed there was a massacre in Tiananmen Square [in 1989].

Ma and the DAB have since backpedalled on his Tiananmen comments and Ma has now sought shelter in Guangzhou where he is being treated for colon cancer.

Wish him well for the future.

But why go to Guangzhou for treatment when Hong Kong's three major public hospitals deliver world-class cancer treatments? There is speculation Ma may have been put off by the hospital names . . . Prince of Wales (New Territories), Queen Elizabeth (Kowloon), Queen Mary (Hong Kong island): hemlock

Anyway, Ma cited the Tiananmen "belief" to show that Hong Kong people were "not mature enough", that they lacked patriotism and national identity, and would thus not be ready for democracy until . . . 2022.

Just so you know.

Oh, and he also questioned whether gweilos (a Cantonese semi-contemptuous term for Caucasians) should be the ones to interpret the truth about Tiananmen.

To be continued.

Hong Kong: Hemlock . . . We Deserve Better since 1997

Hemlock (who is listed in the Some Other Local Blogs sidebar on the right) has written a book.

Hemlock interviewed by a friendly journalist: interview

As you can see (above), the book has a splendid red cover and is titled We Deserve Better: Hong Kong since 1997.

Mister Bijou already has his order in.

We Deserve Better: Hong Kong since 1997