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The South China Morning Post website today features a front page headline "Police find explosives in Tibet". So how do they illustrate this dramatic news? With a picture of the explosives? With a picture of the bridge under which they were allegedly found? Or of the police who claimed the find?No, nothing so obvious for the Post. Instead they use this (rather good) image of a young Tibetan monk...

The BBC refer to someone who only appeared on the music scene 15 years after you started listening as "veteran British singer Paul Weller".You look at a photo, think "Who's that guy with grey hair wearing the same outfit as me?", then realise it is y...

For the past 2 days, the South China Morning Post website has not (on my machine, at least - YMMV) come up correctly on Google's Chrome browser, although it works on both Internet Explorer and FireFox. Whether this is the fault of Google or the Post I don't know, but it's interesting that after Microsoft declared victory in the browser wars some years ago, rival browsers are now making a serious...

As both Hong Kong's free-to-air TV stations announce staff layoffs, a thought occurs to me: does it really take three people to read the news (two to exchange silly chitchat at the end and one to cover the sports)? On some occasions, the people in the studio must outnumber the viewers.So, it's goodnight from me.And it's goodnight from h...

Attending a funeral this morning has left me thinking, partly about the depressing inevitability of growing old - but that's for another time.My question today is this: why are such ugly hearses used in Hong Kong? I don't know about other countries, but in Britain or the US, most people are carried to their final resting place in a sleek black (or sometimes white) Rolls Royce, Bentley or Cadillac,...