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Daai Tou Laam Elsewhere On The Net

daaitoulaam: @thechinaprice And baby formula by the suitcase. Not sure if City Super is food safety or status symbol or mix of both.
27 Jan 2012 06:26 PM

daaitoulaam: Must mean push polls from gov's Central Policy Unit ♻ @rthk_enews: China official criticises 'biased polls' http://t.co/4h0aZyz9
27 Jan 2012 06:21 PM

daaitoulaam: "The 50 fen Perma-bull Pen" Name for stereotypical Western periodical's blog about China.
27 Jan 2012 02:00 PM

daaitoulaam: RT @ZhouFengSuo: Twitter reached a deal with China to censor tweets so as to enter China? censorship policy announced 2 weeks after @jac ...
27 Jan 2012 12:49 PM

daaitoulaam: @thechinaprice Isn't that just because >80% of folks in Harbour City are Big6 tourists?
27 Jan 2012 12:25 PM

daaitoulaam: Twitter should've said some countries' idea of freedom of expression differ so much from global norms that they run a parallel intranet
27 Jan 2012 11:00 AM

daaitoulaam: The Nokia Board shuffle and removal of the Chairman tells me they want to "Bain" the company. Vultures are hungry.
27 Jan 2012 10:29 AM

daaitoulaam: Being President cramps the money making ♻ @SamSeder: I think pitching "Moon Colony" proves my theory that Newt is taking a fall. #Bagjob
27 Jan 2012 10:06 AM

daaitoulaam: ♻ @romenesko: Facebook wanted reporters to sign non-disclosure agreement before today's news conference in Seattle. http://t.co/BClWReWW
27 Jan 2012 09:57 AM

daaitoulaam: First the CCP claimed Tibetan exile groups exagerrated it, then they admitted shooting civilians,now they cut telecom http://t.co/rujuKagv
26 Jan 2012 10:32 PM

Issue 614: Packaging PyPy: installation path for PyPy's libraries - PyPy development tracker
12 May 2011 11:50 pm

Kernel Compilation from Source for New Users - ArchWiki
5 May 2011 12:31 am

Optimizing Nginx for High Traffic Loads | Martin Fjordvald
1 May 2011 3:59 am

torlang
29 Apr 2011 11:52 am

Amplify - A Component Library for jQuery
29 Apr 2011 10:43 am

What America Means When It Asks For Your Papers
[author]Adam Serwer[/author]
29 Apr 2011 10:14 am

Pinax : Getting started
29 Apr 2011 1:19 am

Tutorial - Mercurial
28 Apr 2011 8:15 am

Webmachine, ErlyDTL and Riak - Part 1 - OJ's rants
28 Apr 2011 8:13 am

GIMP » Free-Brushes.com - Free Photoshop, GIMP & Paint Shop Pro Brushes
28 Apr 2011 5:11 am

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23 Apr 2011 8:05 am

HK criticised over referendum campaign - RTHK English News
Liaison Office Director Peng Qinghua described the "popular uprising" slogan used in the campaign as a blatant challenge to the Basic Law.
6 Mar 2010 12:19 pm

HK criticised over referendum campaign - RTHK English News
Liaison Office Director Peng Qinghua described the "popular uprising" slogan used in the campaign as a blatant challenge to the Basic Law.
06 Mar 2010 04:19 AM

Taiwan falls short of mainland tourists - RTHK English News
Officials said just over half the number of visitors they expected had arrived since Taiwan opened its doors to mainland tourists in 2008.
19 Feb 2010 05:00 PM

RTHK English News - US concern over HK export controls
The commission's chairwoman, Carolyn Bartholomew, said that researchers had not found specific examples of sensitive technology being transferred to the mainland, but had heard accounts that Hong Kong's customs standards were "slipping." [like Zhou Yongjun]
20 Nov 2009 12:32 PM

US blasted over allegations Beijing is blocking democracy - The Standard
"The implementation of universal suffrage according to the Basic Law is part of our internal affairs. This is a matter for the HKSAR and the central government to deal with according to the Basic Law," the spokesman said.(Stephen Lam needs a spokesperson? And what about that high degree of autonomy?)
15 Oct 2009 07:27 PM

UK: Chinese espionage a "voracious" problem involving "a mass of ordinary students and businessmen" - Wikileaks
13 Oct 2009 10:16 PM

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Daai Tou Laam Diary

Kowloon East As CBD 2 and the DAB


by Tom Legg at Fri Oct 14 09:13:21 2011

So has anyone thought about why the DAB asked the government to relocate government offices to Kai Tak and pushed so hard for redevelopment of property in East Kowloon?

Let me run through some thoughts of mine. First, there was a time when the DAB was just the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong. Now it's the Democratic A...

When Social Media Meets Beijing's Money Advantage In HK Politics


by Tom Legg at Sun Sep 18 16:26:01 2011

So how do you know when the effects of social media are providing an equalising effect to the CCP's money being funneled in to the pro-Beijing political parties? When the pro-Beijing puppets in the HK government ou...

Wikileaks, Donald Tsang and Democracy


by Tom Legg at Tue Sep 6 12:23:38 2011

A very interesting analysis at China Worker on the Wikileaks cable from October 2005 regarding a conversation with Donald Tsang concerning the proposals for political reform in Hong Kong. As China Worker points out from the left, it's not just the CCP that is blocking universal suffrage ...

The Lyin' Constitutional Affairs Moron


by Tom Legg at Sat Sep 3 09:37:29 2011

So beyond my previous statement about the rationale for the By-election Proposals in Hong Kong being the product of control freaks who hate the fact that the people will elect the people they hate, there's the preposterous bullshit about the government favouring "rational debate".

A rational debate would have both sides represented prese...

Liberal Party Has Got No Clothes


by Tom Legg at Fri Aug 12 07:35:06 2011

In the last popular election the association of rural kingpins, the Heung Yee Kuk, withdrew their support from the Liberal Party. This meant that the Liberal Party ended up with ZERO popularly elected Legislative Representatives. (Under HK's proportional list system, this is pretty damn difficult.) What this shows is that the Liberal Party has ...