Issue: June 01, 2012   (Archive)
Wednesday, May 22, 2013   

At last, a sat nav for us men to find beer in supermarkets
Real men don't shop. We make incursions into enemy territory.



Body and soul connections
New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association has set up a social enterprise outlet at one of the units located in a row of pre-war buildings conserved by the Urban Renewal Authority at Fa Hui, Mong Kok.

Sharp shock makes me media wary
The good news is the police are rethinking their relationship with the media and will explore the possibility of setting up a specially trained team of officers to form a press liaison group.

Final payout for top tipster
The death of Kyu Eikan on May 16 came as a shock as the writer was still making the news leading a delegation of investors to Shandong just a month before that.

In case of airhead passengers, keep your seat belts fastened
Don't you hate passengers who stand up and open the overhead luggage bins the moment the aircraft touches the ground?

Home truths hurt agents
Rises in property prices of the kind seen lately should have spelled a windfall for agents, but business has not improved.

Disunited force must resolve impasse
Since the handover, relations between the police and media have gone from poor, to bad, to worse.

Media baron was ahead of his time
Sing Tao Daily's Canadian edition reported that Hong Kong Daily News founder Law Bun died of an illness in Vancouver at the age of 89.

Wear a penguin or superhero suit if you want a gay marriage
A same-sex penguin couple at Madrid zoo in Spain adopted an egg last week after having suffered the heartbreak of being childless for six years. Staff slipped them an egg from donor penguins.



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