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It’s Time To Fundamentally Upgrade The Way That We Do Things In Hong Kong Through Creative Thinking—Edmund Lee, Executive Director Of Hong Kong Design Centre
19-05-20 Creative thinking(創意思維) is not the same as creativity(創作). It is about how anyone of us can solve a problem or understand an issue differently and imaginatively at work or in life. Barack Obama said, “To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is…
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STARTUPS ARE NOT FOR MONEY, BUT FREEDOM BEYOND MONEY
20-4-20 With the coronavirus economic recession, we are like facing World War III. We are ransacked by devastating declines in GDP, real income, employment, service production and retail sales. The Irish said, “Don’t grieve for me, for now I’m free! I follow the plan God laid by me.” Now, you are poor and get nothing…
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THE OLD OLD CHERRY OF HOME: ROMANTIC TSIM SHA TSUI OF HONG KONG IN THE 50S & 60S
06-04-20 Hong Kong is small. We do not have hometowns. We have ‘home districts’. We miss our home districts. Where we came from is now gone. But, your heart is obsessively held by the beautiful district that you cannot forget. Let us examine the old old districts of Hong Kong, say around 100 years ago.…
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WILL HONG KONG LIVE A POOR LIFE AFTER COVID-19—MAYBE, MAYBE NOT
23-03-20 Coronavirus is disgusting. It is a highly infectious disease and can remain with us with no cure. From epidemic to pandemic, the virus keeps on person-to-person spreading in multiple countries. When will it stop? “How many deaths will it take till he knows. That too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is…
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FROM QUESTIONS TO ACTIONS: THE NEW CONCEPT OF A CO-PROJECT SPACE—SHIBUYA QWS IN JAPAN
21-02-20 Shibuya is the most trendy and charming shopping district of Tokyo—resembling a wave of diamonds, glittering day and night till the end of the world. Among all draws of Shibuya is her world-famous ‘Shibuya Scramble Crossing’. It is located right in front of the Shibuya Train Station and traffic lights stops regularly vehicles in…
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MY LISTICLE ON HONG KONG PUBLIC & PERSONAL HYGIENE—BACK TO THE 60S
12-02-20 Keeping ourselves clean and tidy is self-respect and personal hygiene. Nobody wants to look bad, smell, catch virus or get sick. Every day, millions of outside germs linger on your face and body. There are 7 common types of personal hygiene: toilet hygiene, shower hygiene, nail hygiene, teeth hygiene, hands hygiene, hair hygiene and…
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GREEN & ART—THE YOUNG GENERATION OF SINO GROUP TOOK FIRST STEPS DOWN NEW ROADS ARMED WITH VISION
03-01-20 How would you compare environment and art? Both need our protection since two have been suffering from years of neglect. Environmental objectives are to conserve natural resources and, when possible, to repair damage and break bad habits. Artistic objectives are more than self-nourishment. Arts empower a society. They make considerable contributions to the well-being…
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DELAY IS THE BREACH OF A PROMISE TO BE TRUSTED—A LAWYER’S ADVICE ON THE 12 WAYS TO CHASE PEOPLE
25-11-19 As a lawyer, I often have to struggle up the hill of work through the snow of deadlines. I have to meet the deadlines from clients, court, government departments and of course myself. Enemies are the people who fail to assist me in meeting these deadlines. Delays are the parents of bad consequences and…
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“MISTY WATER COLORED MEMORIES OF THE WAY WE WERE” ——FORMER SINGER AND PRESENT ANTIQUE EXPERT LISA CHUNG LAI SEUNG TALKED ABOUT HONG KONG MUSIC SCENE IN THE 60S
20-11-19 We need heroes for history but we look up to legends in our real life to inspire——giving us a larger-than-life role model. Heroes made us feel like losers but legends transformed us into the second-best winners. Antique expert Lisa Chung Lai Seung is a legend. Born in 1953, she came from an extremely poor…
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OUR WALKING MEDIA DICTIONARY PETER LAM YUK WAH—IS TV IN HONG KONG DYING?
05-11-19 Bill Taylor, an international researcher, said, “The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action, an unconventional business strategy, a unique product development roadmap and a controversial marketing campaign—even as the rest of the world wonders why you are not marching in step with the status…