Heigh ho, heigh ho, to the Sevens we’ll go!
Where the drinking is fast and beer-pouring slow
We’ll chug till we’re blind and go out of our minds
Heigh ho, to the Sevens we’ll go!
That Liverpudlian tout, he’s such a lout
Selling overpriced tickets year in and year...
published: Mar 15 2013 - 7:53pm
It’s that time of the year again: The Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (or CPPCC, if you like short and sexy). It’s a veritable who’s-who of shoeshiners and bootlickers, all in Beijing for the two-week policy-listening-to festival.
As always, we’ll...
published: Mar 7 2013 - 5:50pm
We here at HK Magazine are troubled by recent press reports regarding an increase in scamming and corruption amongst our city’s travel agencies. We’ve devised this handy questionnaire so that Hong Kong's visitors can determine whether they are being treated a little less than...
published: Feb 21 2013 - 7:22pm
This is a really hard letter for me to write. No relationship is immune to the ups and downs, and we’ve certainly had our fair share over the nearly 1,000 weeks we’ve been together. Remember SARS? We liked to say we were pretending to be operating room surgeons on the MTR! You were so...
published: Feb 21 2013 - 7:20pm
Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah finds himself in the hot seat leading up to Hong Kong’s budget speech at the end of this month, as authorities revealed last week that our city accumulated a surplus of nearly $40 billion during the 2012-13 fiscal year. Our insiders have been digging...
published: Feb 7 2013 - 9:57pm
“Dream Bear” Lew Mong-hung has been in the news recently. The embattled businessman and former CPPCC Standing Committee member has been lashing out at CY Leung—whom he formerly supported—and accusing him off all kinds of misconduct after being investigated by the ICAC for...
published: Jan 30 2013 - 4:00pm
Chief Executive CY Leung delivered his inaugural policy address last week, and despite touching on keystone issues such as social welfare, waste management and the environment, critics were quick to attack the speech for not going into specifics on how his government plans to address pressing...
published: Jan 25 2013 - 12:00am
Chief Executive CY Leung delivered his policy address on Wednesday. To keep things lively during what has for years proven to be a vapid spectacle, we spiced it up with a fun drinking game that left us nicely blackout drunk when all was said and done. We heartily recommend it for the next one.
In...
published: Jan 18 2013 - 12:00am