In 1977 my father’s talkback show on Hong Kong’s Commercial Radio was a standout hit and he had ditched a lot of the public relations work which had kept us afloat since his blacklisting over […]
Once I was a Girl Reporter known as Sally Baxter. In 2018 I broke out under my own name of Maria Spackman, and set up my new Hong Kong bureau.
But you can’t keep a good alter ego down and Sally Baxter – the original and best – has been promoted to Culture and Gardening Editor-at-Large.
‘Editor-at-Large’ is a title largely reserved for staff who are too difficult to sack but unbearable in the newsroom.
Or, at least, that’s what my Dad told me. 
On Sunday, 9 January 1972 the Queen Elizabeth, one of the greatest ocean liners of her age, caught fire in Hong Kong harbour and there was only one foreign journalist covering the story – my […]
There was even more colour and movement than usual at Hong Kong’s premier dragon boat races when the 1974 craze for running through a public place naked reached the shores of Stanley. They called it […]
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