Girl About Globe | If the shoe fits

Linda Kennedy Thursday, July 21, 2016 - 9 years ago No Comments 4,067 Views

A high-heeled fight is on the horizon. Between Macau, Hong Kong and Taiwan. At stake: becoming THE destination for female tourists in Asia. Get it on. The fight, the shoe, the

Opinion

Girl About Globe | Of beehives and gender in obituaries

Linda Kennedy Thursday, June 23, 2016 - 9 years ago No Comments 4,100 Views

The news of Margaret Vinci Heldt’s passing, aged 98 in Chicago, appeared in newspapers from Taiwan to Malaysia, Ireland to the US. That made me glad. Not because I wear a

Macau Opinion

Girl About Globe | Darker shades of pink

Linda Kennedy Thursday, June 9, 2016 - 9 years ago No Comments 9,310 Views

Let’s talk pink parking spaces for women. Please help me, gents, to get into this debate. It’s so hard. A service station in Hangzhou has created extra-large spaces for women, outlined

Asia-Pacific

China issues travel warning for the Philippines

- Monday, September 15, 2014 - 10 years ago No Comments 7,218 Views

China has warned its citizens not to travel to the Philippines after a Chinese teenager who worked in a family-run store was kidnapped and after government agents arrested a group of men