Mar 21, 2009
When I heard Matt Mullenweg would be passing through Hong Kong, I immediately urged him to speak to a broader audience than the Internet crowd. The result is this American Chamber of Commerce luncheon that I will moderate on April 7. In case you have never heard of Matt, he was recently named alongside Steve
Mar 21, 2009
Christine Brendle is the Managing Director of Dow Jones Consumer Media Group in Asia. Based in Hong Kong, she has management responsibility for the commercial operations of The Wall Street Journal Asia and the regional web site asia.WSJ.com, the monthly Far Eastern Economic Review, the Chinese-language web site Chinese WSJ.com, and spearheads business development initiatives
Mar 8, 2009
Hong Kong’s resident Web 2.0 expert through his influential English-language blog 852signal, Angus Lau travels extensively around China He has also written articles for the China Web Review and Read/Write Web. Like all avid social media enthusiasts, he maintains an active Twitter feed – recently telling his followers that he “Just had some Hanu beef,
Feb 12, 2009
Asiaxpat, an expat community site in Hong Kong that I have written about previously, was featured by Hitwise one of the fastest growing online hubs among Hong Kong Internet users. Market share of visits to Asiaxpat’s Hong Kong portal increased by 30.55% between November 2008 and January 2009, according to Hitwise. The site led the
Jan 19, 2009
This report released today by Colliers is somewhat good news for us non-landowners living in Hong Kong. Real estate prices are sharply down, but as the chart shows, the level still remains well above the last decade’s prices. Oh, to have bought in 2003 during SARS… (What is happening to rents?)
Jan 11, 2009
Bunny, pictured on left, belongs to a 3-year old girl in Hong Kong, but went missing on Saturday. Bunny was last seen somewhere near Stanley or on the #40 bus around 4pm. Please post any leads here or put them on the Facebook group! There is a reward (Unspecified)
Jan 7, 2009
Some Melamine-era marketing I noticed today in Park n’ Shop: Foreign brands have quite literally been flagged. All these flags were photographed near the check out (mainly a candy section). Recently heard you can tell the country of origin from those numbers in the Bar Code. Is it true? Anyone know how to do that?
Dec 16, 2008
Angus Lau, who has been tracking Hong Kong’s Web 2.0 companies, has an interesting new post about how local startups in Hong Kong are leaving the Internet to focus on iPhone apps. In the video below, Angus describes the web start-up scene in Hong Kong. What has been happening here sounds like it could be
Nov 5, 2008
China’s nicknames for Chris Patten included “whore” and they declared him “guilty for a thousand generations”. His current title is The Lord Patten of Barnes. He was also called the last British Governor of Hong Kong, when he handed the former Crown Colony over to China on July 1, 1997. In a throwback to the
Nov 4, 2008
Martin Luther King’s final speech before his assassination seems highly resonant with Barack Obama’s projected victory (12 noon, Hong Kong time): We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn’t matter with me now. Because I’ve been to the mountaintop. And I don’t mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity
Sep 16, 2008
This Saturday we celebrated the 7th Annual Foreign Correspondents’ Club Charity Ball, featuring the World Classic Rockers. Made up of former band members of Toto, Steppenwolf, Santana, Journey and more, the band rocked the Hong Kong convention center and created a problem we never anticipated or experienced: Ladies invading the stage. We hope to have
Sep 8, 2008
Daaahling, the world economy is collapsing, but nobody seems to have told Hong Kong’s socialite magazines (or their luxury advertisers). Prestige Hong Kong and Hong Kong Tatler both published forest destroying 808-page issues this month and – not surprisingly – there is now a bit of a catfight over who is number one. Prestige weighed
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Thomas Crampton was a correspondent for the
International Herald Tribune and The New York Times for more than a decade, reporting from five continents, writing a column on Asia and covering Asian politics, economics and culture. Currently based in Hong Kong, he writes here about China, the Internet and New Media seen from Asia, while also advising companies on digital communication strategies. For more information click here...
