Issue: September 08, 2010 (Archive)

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

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For Pete Sake, watch how you name kids or you'll get Diarrhea
Comedian Vivek Mabubani told me he met a girl called Photosynthesis last week. She was tiny. "I wanted her to go out in the sun, to see if she would grow," he said.

Bookstores risk an unhappy ending
On his recent visit to Taiwan, Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah entered the Eslite Bookstore - and his brief stop stirred up a storm, albeit of the in-the-teacup variety.

Crooks lived in fear of `supervision'
Our police force now has the firepower to deal with any would-be violent and armed criminals, but at one time we also had a unique role in dealing with habitual criminals.

Bullets that silenced the hired guns -
There were several robbery cases involving banks and goldsmiths between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s. The robbers used nine-millimeter automatic pistols (like the Black Star made for the People's Liberation Army), assault rifles such as the AK47 and even grenades.

Students learn to give courts a break
Not every civil action case lands in court. Proper mediation may help resolve disputes and ease pressure on Hong Kong's overworked courts.

Privacy threat to direct marketers
The Octopus Card controversy over protection of personal data is spreading to other sectors, with the practices of banks and insurance companies also coming under close scrutiny.

Lead from front to save hostages
The press is full of reports and comments on the whereabouts of the Philippine president and his senior ministers and generals when the hostage crisis of August 23 was at its height.

Results count for racehorse owner
In the old days, manufacturing was not the gateway to the land of the super rich.

Just don't read this in the toilet somebody could be filming you
Smile please, you're on candid camera. This may not be a joke. There are now more cameras than people in modern cities, researchers say.

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