China to hold big parade, but ordinary folks can’t go see it 

China will hold a massive military parade through the heart of its capital, but ordinary folks can’t watch. Authorities obsessed with security and leery of any possible hitches will virtually shut

Hong Kong | Teen student leader Joshua Wong faces trial over pro-democracy protest

Hong Kong teenage student leader Joshua Wong is set to face trial on charges relating to his role in storming government headquarters nearly a year ago in a protest that

Beijing, S. Korea agree to summit with Japan by November: Yonhap

China and South Korea agreed to hold a three-way summit with Japan in Seoul in late October or early November, Yonhap News said. Chinese President Xi Jinping and South Korean President

Thailand | Police: Suspect’s prints match those on bomb material 

Police investigating last month’s Bangkok bombing said yesterday that the fingerprints of a foreign man arrested at the Thai-Cambodia border match those found on a bottle of bomb-making material, and

North Korea | Pyongyang denies it apologized to Seoul over mine blast

North Korea said yesterday that its recent expression of “regret” over a mine explosion that maimed two South Korean soldiers was not an apology, as Seoul claims — raising doubts about tentative

European migrant crisis | Hungary blocks immigrants from trains; 11 drown off Turkey

Hundreds of migrants chanted defiant slogans outside Budapest’s main international train station yesterday as Hungarian police blocked them for a second day from seeking asylum in Germany and other wealthy

This Day in History | 1954 National Trust buys remote island

The remote island situated between Shetland and Orkney was bought by George Waterston, an Edinburgh ornithologist, in 1948. He set up a bird observatory which has since built up a

Offbeat | Las Vegas has Eiffel Tower, Sphinx and now a urinating boy

Already home to replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Sphinx, Las Vegas now has its own copy of Belgium’s Manneken-Pis, a statue of a naked little boy relieving himself into

Football | No pressure for Japan coach ahead of World Cup qualifiers

Thu, 6:25pm Japan v Cambodia H 1.02, D --, A 67 Despite a disappointing start to his tenure as Japan coach, Vahid Halilhodzic has been told by the Japan football association that his

Rugby | Welsh player banned for using growth hormone

HK Observer | Begone trams and TST promenade! What next? Eiffel Tower?

The old assertion “great minds think alike” - which triggers the riposte: “fools never differ” - comes to mind with recent ideas to ‘improve’ local iconic landmarks. First of all there’s

Thursday, September 3, 2015 – edition no. 2392

Power Parade

* Movies: A Walk in the Woods * Books: Jade Dragon Mountain by Elsa Hart * Music: Dee Dee’s Feathers  by Dee Dee Bridgewater * Wine: The Chinese Expedition * Food: Old World Sophistication   DOWNLOAD

Redford and Nolte in Bryson’s ‘A Walk in the Woods’

The lure of the wild has recently attracted an interesting batch of solitude seekers: Reese Witherspoon (“Wild”), Mia Wasikowska (“Tracks”) and Robert Redford, twice. Two years after “All Is Lost,” Redford

‘Jade Dragon Mountain’ is engrossing debut by Elsa Hart

Elsa Hart’s fiction debut perfectly melds history with the mystery genre for a lush look at China on the cusp of change. Set in the early 1700s, “Jade Dragon Mountain”

Bridgewater celebrates New Orleans on Katrina anniversary

News of the World | A preview of new military gear Beijing’s showing off at parade

The Chinese Expedition

Traditionally a baijiu and huangjiu country, the concept of Chinese wine may at the first sight appear as peculiar as employing Oriental brush strokes and paper to depict biblical stories.

Food | Old world sophistication

Recently, I was very happy to rediscover the taste I had known during my childhood at Man Ho Chinese Restaurant, located in Asia’s largest JW Marriott, JW Marriott Hotel Macau.

The Buzz | Japan scraps Olympic logo over plagiarism allegation 


"We have reached a conclusion that it would be only appropriate for us to drop the logo and develop a new emblem," said Toshio Muto, director general of the Tokyo

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