Epic opening to this front page story by the China Daily’s Moscow correspondent:

“Thousands of years ago, China envisaged a world where people would live in perfect harmony and be as dear to one another as family. Today, President Xi Jinping has given the world such a vision…”

This is the article he was working on as he was interviewing people in front of the bank

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Today we visited the Bishop Hill Service Reservoir, part of the Kowloon Waterworks gravitation scheme. Water flowed down the mountains into the Kowloon Reservoir, through filter beds, an 800 foot long tunnel and two miles of pipe to accumulate here before continuing to Yaumatei.

Now called Luxcrete , the British Luxfer Prism Syndicate manufactured this access port on the top of the reservoir, which was at some point concreted over. The company was founded in the 1880's by a British inventor who initially developed streetlight glazing.

Here is the version with French subtitles
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Sincerely Thanks Florence de Changy

Imagine my delight to find The Gorgeous Nothings, the edition of Dickinson's 'envelop poems', put together by Werner and Bervin (the latter I met in HK), in Dennis Duncan's book! 'The index is a wry gesture, imbued with the character of its compiler[.]'

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The current joke is that 'if you have a classroom full of kids, the badly behaved one will always be badly behaved and the good kids will just have to learn to get along with them. That's our situation.'

I declined to ask which kid was Hong Kong and which kid was China

Shaun Rein parody @shaunrein In 2012 there was nobody with half a brain who wasn’t saying China was #1 retail market. That’s why all the small specialist retail/consumer market research companies (inc my own) got bought by large concerns at that time - except one! Guess which that was?

Trying my best here, John... twitter.com/hkfp/status/16…
Each time you talk about it and do press releases, there are more web results that link 'national anthem' and 'Glory to Hong Kong' -- y'all keep adding to the problem. 🫠

Water taxi provides convenience to Mount Parker residents

Once had an uncle try to photograph my phone screen at the same spot a NYT journo was falsely outed as a protester “commander.” Doubt my not being a foreigner would’ve changed anything (looking different is enough) but I was literally just looking at pics of seals to decompress.

There are many ways to be the greatest economist of our time. I admire those who got Nobel prizes and know some more who deserve it, but it is Tymofiy Mylovanov who really makes me proud that I am an economist. Want to be proud too? Just read the thread.

Jude Bellingham scores a header for #england to crush #Iranian hopes in the 35th minute of their #FIFAWorldCup #Qatar2022 match.

New Webb-site data: the number of unconvicted people on remand (innocent until proven guilty) in HK jails at 30-Sep has reached a record this century of 2,751, or 35.41% of the jail population. webb-site.com/dbpub/jail.asp

But I will also say unequivocally that facile China-bashing, demonizing and arguing that we should have nothing to do with China or Chinese (even the 90 million Party members) is stupid, dangerous, self-defeating and often racist. Academics working on China broadly agree with me.

I dont know Elon Musk and, tbh, I could care less who owns twitter. But I will say that if this is true, I hope he and his people take this very seriously because this is scary AF. So many damn unfit people saying hate speech is free speech.