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Voting in the 2023 Hong Kong district council election
I tried to vote in the district council election and all I got was a greeting card.
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Day 29: The great Hong Kong floods of 2023
The great Hong Kong floods of 2023 were not entirely unexpected. What went wrong...
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Day 22: A snow day in Hong Kong
A category 4-equivalent typhoon is pounding Hong Kong...but the city is calm and everything will be fine. How is that?
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Day 15: Employer tax withholding is a scam
Employer tax withholding is a scam used to get people to pay heavy taxes without feeling the pain.
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Day 14: Behave like the society you want to live in
Hong Kongers' kindness makes this a great place to live.
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Day 2: The slow train to Shenzhen is faster
The 112 year old slow train to Shenzhen is faster than high speed rail.
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Hong Kong helpers: low pay isn't racism
A reader brought up treatment of foreign domestic helpers are a great example of racism in Hong Kong. However, it's important not to confuse perceived low pay and racism. They're separate issues. Let’s look at helper pay. The "cheapness" of maids is because
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Racism in Hong Kong
You don’t move to a foreign country where most people look different than you and stay for very long if you can’t put up with mild racism. I always expected there to be racism in China, but assumed that Hong Kong would suffer less from this being an