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 […]
When Derek Currie was pulled off the field at Douglas Park one afternoon in Glasgow, the last thing he expected was an offer to play football in Hong Kong. What clinched the deal was the […]
It’s a bitter harvest this year in Hong Kong after a long, hard summer of violence and unrest – the hardest, perhaps, in its history. The Mid-Autumn Festival, traditionally one of the most peaceful in […]
In the 1970s our social orbit expanded to include a small but highly specialised group of expatriates in Hong Kong. They were footballers, who delighted local crowds in the glory days of the game and […]
At one time Grosvenor House, our block of flats at the end of Macdonnell Road in Hong Kong’s Mid-Levels, was home to BBC correspondent Tony Lawrence, who died on 24 September 2013, and Dick Hughes, […]
On 6 December 1966, Chairman Mao’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution arrived briefly and violently at Dalgety’s Wharf in Brisbane, Australia. It’s an incident which has largely been forgotten in the tumult of history, but it […]
The longer you live in Hong Kong, the more impressive becomes your Typhoon Tally, an essential component of your credentials, to be wheeled out as required. Only the big ones count. It’s Signal 10 (hurricane […]
Much has changed in Hong Kong since Your Girl Reporter departed this fair city in 1987, but its beating heart is as strong and vibrant as it ever was. It’s good to be home. “Congratulations,” the […]
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