Hong Kong Literary Festival 6-15 March

Glutter’s Hong Kong The Hong Kong Literary Festival starts this Monday. It features an incredible array of authors, from Chinese Writers Su Tong, Mian Mian and Ma Jian, Asian-American author Gish Jen, Australian Aboriginal author Doris Pilkington, as well as Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heanly and this year’s Booker Prize winner John Bantville. Authors TheContinue reading “Hong Kong Literary Festival 6-15 March”

Be Part of History. The Fringe Club Time Capsule

You have been invited by the Hong Kong Fringe Club to contribute to their Memory Capsule during the City Festival 2006!What should we tell our great-great-great grandchildren about the good old days of HK?  Email us a photograph of your HK heritage choice(s) (it could be: a building, place, food, family, religion, object, music…NO restriction!)Continue reading “Be Part of History. The Fringe Club Time Capsule”

Fix not kill the WTO, Support the G20, Make Trade Fair.

Socio-political rants I have been reading… it seems to me that I am not quite sure why people want to dismantle the WTO as from the talks it seems there is much discussion on the farm subsidies as well as giving LDN (least developed nations) a different kind of quota system. It seems that partContinue reading “Fix not kill the WTO, Support the G20, Make Trade Fair.”

From Behind the Police Line, The Dehumanizing of both side by the uniform and photographs

Glutter’s Hong Kong I wanted to try something different which was to document the police instead of the protesters. I simply thought they would make interesting photos. What I found was from where I was standing, what turned out to be drums for music to dance, clapping and shouting, along with speeches from microphones farContinue reading “From Behind the Police Line, The Dehumanizing of both side by the uniform and photographs”

Once a Colonial Subject

Europe 2001: Letters Home Originally Titled:  England Motherland?? Or maybe should be titled: "This is what it feels like to once be a Colonial Subject in this Post-Colonial World." —- LONDON: The mother city to my little island home; full of sky scrappers, British banks, Opium dealers turned to land mongers. London is a funnyContinue reading “Once a Colonial Subject”

Story of Yahoo!’s role in Jailing Chinese Journalist Breaks Internationally..

Glutter’s Hong Kong I don’t know who leaked this. Whoever it is. That person made a huge and immediate impact. I would like to shake your hand one day. Original Press Release: Yahoo Provided Information that jailed Chinese journalist. Two nights ago, I answered a list of questions about Internet Law, Privacy Policy, ISPs inContinue reading “Story of Yahoo!’s role in Jailing Chinese Journalist Breaks Internationally..”