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      <description>That’s what people call talking out of both sides of the mouth. Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, caused a bit of controversy in Hong Kong. Then he did it again when he returned home to the United States.
City officials, as usual, bent over backwards to let him skip toughened Covid quarantine rules to visit local bank staff. At least that was the cover story. Rumour had it he was on a more urgent secretive mission. More likely, local officials here bent the knee before mighty American...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2021 01:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Can JPMorgan Chase outlast Chinese Communist Party?</title>
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      <description>Do Chinese warships go to the Gulf of Mexico?” 
That’s an interesting rhetorical question and it was one asked by an angry foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian. It was in response to the USS John S. McCain having sailed through the Taiwan Strait this week.
There is, of course, a simple and politically neutral answer. The United States is a global power and China is at most a regional power. That’s why.
China blames ‘aggressive US’ for humanitarian disasters around globe
Undiplomatically, Zhao...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>China is not (yet) the equal of the US</title>
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      <description>This week is the first anniversary of something that I did with the greatest reluctance: I stopped writing restaurant reviews for this newspaper. 
A year ago, we were deep into the Covid-19 pandemic, although I didn’t think we realised at the time that the situation would last so long. But the streets of Hong Kong were empty – people weren’t going out to eat or shop, even though the government hadn’t yet imposed dining restrictions. Restaurants, especially the smaller places, were closing at a...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2021 04:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>The coronavirus pandemic hasn’t stopped new restaurants opening in Hong Kong, even as others close down for good</title>
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      <description>Fashion people love autumn and winter because that’s when they get to wear all the clothes they’ve saved for when it’s cool enough. When it’s 32 degrees Celsius and 98 per cent humidity, sashay quickly turns into sweaty, even in a loose linen dress. When it’s colder, you can layer different tops, accessorise with hats and scarfs, drape a jacket over your shoulder and generally mix and match your way through the whole closet.
Food people feel a similar affinity for colder weather because they...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Korean barbecue, hotpot, roast goose, claypot rice: winter is foodie heaven – it’s an excuse to eat high-fat, calorific foods</title>
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      <description>Greetings American friends, from Richmond, British Columbia, aka The Most Chinese City in North America™!
Regular readers of the Hongcouver blog will be familiar with this remarkable Canadian community, the only city outside Asia that has a majority ethnic Chinese population, representing 53 per cent of its population, according to the 2016 census.
To put that in perspective, San Francisco – widely regarded as the most Chinese city in the US (various communities within Los Angeles County...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2020 15:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>China virus? North America’s most Chinese city is one of the most coronavirus-free places on the continent</title>
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      <description>“You’ll delete my number won’t you? After we hang up, you’ll delete that, right?” said the protester, who asked that I identify her only as “Jessica”.
Jessica lives in Vancouver, where she attends protests about Hong Kong – waving the same black flag that resulted this month in the first charge of inciting secession under new national security laws in her former home city.
The charge carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
“Liberate Hong Kong; Revolution of Our Times,” the allegedly...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2020 18:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Fear of Hong Kong security law spreads in Vancouver, but some dare wave the black flags of ‘revolution’</title>
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      <description>You can find recipes for practically anything now, even dishes you don’t think would exist. They are on the web. Try it – make up something and type it into Google.
Cheeseburger salad? There are pages and pages of them, including variations like a low-carb, gluten-free Big Mac salad. Goat’s cheese dessert? You bet. Now refine your search to be more specific. Do you want goat’s cheese cheesecake, brownie, pudding or mousse?
Interest in home cooking has exploded while much of the world has been...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2020 08:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>My home cooking has improved, but no thanks to  YouTube chefs or food blogs – keeping recipes simple is the key</title>
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      <description>Provincial health officer Dr Bonnie Henry has been the calm, reassuring and authoritative voice of the Covid-19 pandemic in British Columbia.
Her near-daily press conferences (with BC health minister Adrian Dix) have become essential viewing, and have earned her a Twitter fan club with more than 7,000 followers, and supporters who literally sing her praises online.
“Dear Dr Bonnie” (based on “Dear Theodosia” from Broadway’s Hamilton) includes lyrics such as “you will lead us through...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2020 21:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Coronavirus: ‘Calm and reassuring’ didn’t convince Vancouver’s Covidiots to stay home. Maybe it’s time for fear and forcefulness</title>
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      <description>On my way home from work on March 11, I received a WhatsApp message from a friend in the hotel industry telling me she had heard that Rech by Alain Ducasse in the InterContinental Hong Kong was closing that evening, and that all the kitchen staff and servers would be laid off.
It was shocking news. A big name like Ducasse and a Michelin star retained for three consecutive years was not enough to keep the restaurant going. I checked the hotel’s website and the fine dining contemporary French...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2020 01:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>With no tourists, fine-dining restaurants in Hong Kong must adapt to survive the coronavirus pandemic</title>
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      <description>The main problem for Richmond’s Aberdeen Centre food court, in the heart of the most Chinese city outside Asia, used to be a lack of seats.
It heaved around meal times, with tray-toting diners pouncing on tables as soon as an incumbent so much as dabbed their lips with a napkin.
Not any more. The crowds are gone. Most tables are empty. It looks like someone pulled a fire alarm.
In the Aberdeen Centre, and at Chinese restaurants and other businesses in the Vancouver region and across Canada,...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 22:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Vancouver’s Chinese restaurants are empty amid coronavirus fears. If misinformation is to blame, so is China’s embassy</title>
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      <description>When I met Ian Gillespie a few years ago, he gave me a book of his thoughts and reflections on a career that has made him Vancouver’s most prominent and polarising real estate developer.
It weighs 2.8 kilograms (6.2lb).
The dashing founder and boss of Westbank Corp is not a man overburdened by self-doubt.
Long regarded as one of the city’s most powerful people, Gillespie has been downright ubiquitous this past month, dominating discussions about art, affordability and city-building.

The first...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2019 20:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Is Vancouver really an ‘insular, little village’? So says its most powerful real estate developer</title>
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      <description>The newest kid on the block in Tai Ping Shan in Sheung Wan is Crit Room, an Italian restaurant. What does Crit Room mean? I’ll get to that later.
Sleek-looking with shiny black walls and tableware to match, the restaurant is diagonally opposite Nordic restaurant Frantzen’s Kitchen in the historic Sheung Wan neighbourhood towards the western end of Hong Kong Island. The food, at least that which we tried, needs some work, but owner Barrie Ho Chow-lai says he isn’t concerned about making...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2019 03:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Hong Kong designer in Donald Tsang misconduct case opens Italian restaurant – it’s all about food, not money, Barrie Ho says</title>
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      <description>The decor is still decades old – for now – at Petrus, but the menu has gone from multi-page to minimalist at the Island Shangri-la hotel’s 56th floor fine-dining restaurant under new executive chef Uwe Opocensky.
A single sheet is enough to contain its new lunchtime menu, for example. There are four appetisers (two cold, two warm), two meat and two seafood options for main course, and two desserts.
There are no descriptions of the dishes, just a short list of ingredients – reminiscent of the...</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2019 10:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>A first taste of new Petrus menus as Shangri-La hotel fine-dining restaurant moves with the times</title>
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      <description>If you’re a fan of the avocado, there’s a restaurant in Hong Kong that can fulfil your cravings.
The aptly named Avobar, an import from London, it’s in the new K11 Musea mall in Tsim Sha Tsui, in the Food Playground or food court area. Staff wear T-shirts with the words “sex” and “drugs” crossed out and “avocuddles” below. Cute, but how’s the food?
We were among the first to be invited to try the Avobar menu – the chef had literally stepped into its newly completed kitchen only that day, and in...</description>
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      <title>Avocado with everything at Avobar, new in Hong Kong – mashed, smashed, sliced, diced, or halved, it’s all here</title>
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      <description>Last week’s announcement that German chef Uwe Opocensky had closed his eponymous restaurant and would leave the group behind the Beef &amp; Liberty restaurants to return to the hotel industry surprised the Hong Kong hospitality industry.
So which hotel was he going to work for? We had to find out.
Reached on Monday, Opocensky was playfully evasive.
“I got an amazing offer. Six or seven months ago different players came to me and I saw the possibility to grow further. It has nothing to do with my...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2019 04:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>‘Fine dining isn’t popular, hotel buffets don’t work’: Chef Uwe Opocensky prepares to shake up hospitality</title>
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      <description>With Manchester United victorious in all six preseason games including Saturday’s penalties win over AC Milan in Cardiff, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer left the Welsh capital in a better frame of mind than five years ago. He was sacked by Cardiff City near the start of the 2014-15 season when his supporters in the dressing room felt other players had taken advantage of his trusting, relaxed nature.
“He wanted us to play dominant football which was all he’d known at United and in Norway,” explains...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2019 08:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Manchester United boosted by Harry Maguire, Aaron Wan-Bissaka and preseason wins but questions remain for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer</title>
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      <description>Alfresco dining is a bit like Chinese opera. Everyone claims it’s great to encourage and promote it as a part of local culture, but the truth is few people want to endure an entire evening of it. From what I see, the new generation finds eating outside about as appealing as a night of clanking cymbals and shrieking songs.
Have you ever tried to digest a meal sitting outdoors at a dai pai dong (street stall) in Hong Kong in the middle of summer? If it’s not the heat, humidity or pollution ruining...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2019 09:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Outdoor alfresco dining in Hong Kong: why would you want to do it? Especially during summer</title>
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      <description>There are many reasons people go on dates: some are after companionship, some are searching for “the one”, while others find dating a source of enjoyment that helps establish self and social confidence.
Whatever the reason, dating can often be a fun experience, with the anticipation stirring up butterflies in the stomach. It is a healthy social interaction and can be a learning experience when both sides have a positive attitude to making their date interesting.
When we look at things...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2019 21:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>‘Foodie call’ trend: how people use dating apps to get a free meal – and how to spot a freeloader</title>
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      <description>Social media is filled with uplifting stories of people who encounter racism and rise above it.
People of colour who wade through the mire to embrace or convert their tormentors – or, at least, distinguish themselves in the face of ignorance.
They go low, we go high.
This is not one of those stories.

The facts of my encounter with a real-life racist in Vancouver, your honour, are as follows. On July 10, a random white man called my wife and me “gooks”, an awful thing to do. He followed us and...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2019 22:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>On a sunny Vancouver afternoon, he called us ‘the g-word’ and told us to go home</title>
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      <description>American fast-food chain KFC has just opened a new outlet in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay shopping district, where it is debuting several new dishes.
There’s a grilled chicken combo with waffle fries and salad (HK$138/US$17.50), an oven-glazed hot wing platter (HK$88), and a “chizza” – a boneless chicken fillet topped with cheese, corn and pineapple pieces (HK$88).
And, just in time for Mid-Autumn Festival on September 13, there’s a “spicy chicken and nuts mooncake”.
It sounded so peculiar we had to...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2019 08:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>KFC unveils chicken mooncakes at new Hong Kong outlet among other new dishes</title>
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      <description>Shake Shack fans in Hong Kong, the wait is over.
The American fast food chain’s burger created in a collaboration with fine-dining Chinese restaurant The Chairman was revealed on Wednesday. Called The Chairman Shack (HK$80), the burger features an Angus beef patty topped with 12-hour slow-cooked caramelised onion, griddled ox tongue, pickled radish, Sichuan pepper, fermented bean sauce and butter lettuce.
The ox tongue has been braised with five spice powder, and the beef patty is brushed with...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2019 08:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Shake Shack x The Chairman burger taste test: not enough zing from Sichuan spice, and ox tongue is bland</title>
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      <description>When The Excelsior Hong Kong closed in March, it left Hongkongers with nowhere to buy Lord Stow’s famed egg tarts without making the trip to the tarts’ home, Macau. Fans of the buttery sweet treat wondered if they would ever be able to purchase them again in Hong Kong.
Here’s some good news: the delicious pastries with the slightly browned egg custard are back – this time at the Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong in Central, in a pop-up running until October 1.
The Lord Stow’s egg tart stand is in the...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2019 04:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Breaking Hong Kong egg tart news: Lord Stow’s is back, now at the Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong</title>
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      <description>Remember the olden times, Vancouver, when dinosaurs and Pokemon Go ruled the Earth?
Cast your mind back to mid-2016.
That was the last time that pretty much everybody agreed that housing unaffordability was a Very Bad Thing – in principle, at least.
Over the preceding two years, there had been a mix of awe and confusion as the average price of a detached house in Greater Vancouver soared 40 to 50 per cent, thanks to the rocket fuel of Chinese capital outflows. Real estate prices across the board...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2019 18:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Scared of falling home equity and the war on money laundering in Vancouver? Tough luck, and get a grip on reality</title>
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      <description>The makers of Chef’s Table and The Final Table have found another way to make foodies hungry with a new series, Street Food, that starts on April 26.
There are nine episodes, each featuring one destination: Thailand, India, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam.
But wait – where’s Hong Kong?
When the show visits Thailand, they feature Jay Fai, or Auntie Fai in Bangkok, who is in her early 70s, wears a thick gold necklace around her neck, and puts on...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2019 04:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Why new Netflix series Street Food highlights Asian countries, but ignores Hong Kong</title>
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      <description>The Milwaukee Brewers announced the signing of three Chinese prospects at a signing ceremony in Beijing on Wednesday.
Right-handed pitchers Jolon Zhao and Ian Yi alongside infielder Coco Kou have all come through the MLB’s China Development Centres. The trio were all born in 2001.
This triple signing marks the first time that a Major League Baseball club has signed three players at the same time.

Jolon Lun, 16yr old from China, T95mph
(Cal Ripken Collegiate League/@alexandria_aces).
From:...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Has the MLB just signed its Yao Ming? Milwaukee Brewers sign three Chinese youngsters</title>
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      <description>A mini-bus carrying five former Manchester United players in June 2017 struggled to leave Beijing University. On board, Paul Scholes waved and smiled at the crowd of students who surrounded the bus, taking pictures and shouting his name. One girl appeared overcome with emotion.
Along with Ryan Giggs, Nicky Butt and Gary and Phil Neville, Scholes was in Hong Kong and then Beijing on a five-a-side tour where his passing was almost as crisp as when he played, even if his legs were not.
“Do you miss...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2019 10:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Paul Scholes returns to his first love, Oldham Athletic, glad to turn his back on the media machine</title>
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      <description>Like all Manchester United fans, Sir Alex Ferguson was all smiles with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Mike Phelan after a seventh consecutive win, the latest against Brighton &amp; Hove Albion on Saturday.
The legendary manager now attends most home games, long days which take a lot out of him, so he takes it easy beforehand and help is always at hand. Away days are a rarity for Ferguson, but he’s loving watching United again with his family – especially now the family spirit is back at the club. Ferguson...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2019 08:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Ole Gunnar Solskjaer welcomes Alex Ferguson back into Manchester United family made by Matt Busby</title>
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      <description>Last night Asia’s biggest football tournament, its equivalent of the European Championships or the Copa America, was not the biggest deal in the region.
This was despite the arrival of the continent’s best player, Son Heung-min, and his South Korea side taking on China for East Asian supremacy in group C, or the scenario where either one of the tournament new boys facing each other in the group’s other game, Kyrgyzstan and the Philippines, could make history and go through to the knockout...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2019 07:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Juventus and AC Milan Saudi Arabia Supercoppa overshadows Asian Cup while highlighting sportwashing, regional strife</title>
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      <description>The transfer window for Chinese clubs never fails to deliver, at least in terms of transfer rumours.
That is where we stand right now with the window open blowing in nothing but hot air.
West Ham United striker Marko Arnautovic is the latest player to be linked with a move to China, although the club reported to be interested in the Austria international remains unnamed.
That is so often the case when players are linked to the Chinese Super League.
Rumours of Chinese clubs wanting to sign...</description>
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      <title>‘Unnamed Chinese club’ leading the way again in another transfer window full of hot air</title>
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      <description>The testimonials from famous athletes and celebrities are pouring in: apparently getting up at 4am is life-changing, revolutionary and will make you a new person.
Apple chief executive officer Tim Cook, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, actor Mark Wahlberg and former US Navy Seal turned fitness instructor and motivational speaker Jocko Willink all rise before the sun, primarily for one reason: to get a workout in with little distraction.

Putting the benefits of being an early riser aside (more time to...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Is getting up at 4am really that good for your health? It could be in your genes</title>
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      <description>Godwin’s Law, as anyone remotely familiar with social media should know, posits the shift towards certainty that a comparison to Hitler or Nazism will be made, the longer any online discussion proceeds.
It’s usually a gambit of last resort. But Nathan Lauster – a professor in sociology at the University of British Columbia – went there with little prodding.
Focusing on the role of foreign money in Vancouver’s unaffordable real estate market “mirrors how you move from ‘socialism’ to ‘national...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2019 21:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Professor Nathan Lauster says Vancouver’s China-money fears mirror Nazism. He just made millions selling home to China-money lobbyists</title>
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      <description>Ordinarily, a meeting between Omar Hawsawi and Hassan Al-Haydos wouldn’t raise many eyebrows across the world. Even when they do next meet, on January 17, most won’t notice or care. However, as the two shake hands, their encounter will be hugely symbolic, potentially fractious, and closely watched by many.
Hawsawi is likely to captain Saudi Arabia and Al-Haydos will probably fulfil the same role for Qatar when the two nations’ football teams play against one another in their countries’ Asian Cup...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2019 02:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>AFC Asian Cup 2019: Saudi Arabia vs Qatar more than a clash of football cultures with geopolitics set to play out on the pitch</title>
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      <description>After the turbulent end of Jose Mourinho’s reign at Manchester United, it was all too easy for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to lift the gloom in his first interview back at Old Trafford.
United’s new caretaker manager said the right things and ticked all the boxes.
“We will get the players enjoying football and looking forward to seeing the supporters again,” the club’s legendary striker told MUTV.
United fans sing about Solskjaer making them happy when skies are grey, and his warm smiles on camera were...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2018 05:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s first interview as Manchester United boss hits right notes but reality could hit harder at Cardiff</title>
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      <description>With one damning glare and a shake of the head from Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho was as good as gone as Manchester United manager.
Up in the stands at Anfield as Liverpool inflicted a comprehensive 3-1 mauling on United last Sunday, Ferguson’s bemused look after Xherdan Shaqiri’s second goal did not escape the attention of the television cameras, or fans on social media.
It may have taken another two days to become official, but Mourinho’s reign bit the dust then and there, with United now 19...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2018 07:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Jose Mourinho sacking hints Alex Ferguson is back in power at Manchester United as his disciple Ole Gunnar Solskjaer takes the reins</title>
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      <description>In August 2013, Huawei CFO Sabrina Meng Wanzhou faced a HSBC banker and did something countless other executives have done before – she gave a PowerPoint presentation.
But according to the United States, the presentation was far from ordinary: it was fraud, designed to help Huawei evade US and EU sanctions against Iran, in a deception involving hundreds of millions of dollars. It lies at the heart of the US case against Meng, and her arrest in Vancouver on December 1.

Her detention has sparked...</description>
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      <title>This PowerPoint presentation proves Huawei CFO Sabrina Meng Wanzhou is guilty, says US. Preposterous, says her lawyer</title>
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      <description>Only a dedicated follower of professional golf, probably living in the English Midlands, would have recognised the name of the Honma Hong Kong Open winner in November. Aaron Rai lifted the trophy and pocketed the US$333,330 cheque on a rainy Sunday at Fanling.
The first-day video highlights showed the big names, Sergio Garcia, Patrick Reed and Tommy Fleetwood, with their insouciant swing, their precision on approach, their unerring putting.
The last part of the clip was of some golfer I didn’t...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2018 00:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>How a Hong Kong craft brewer got on the bag of European Tour event winner and earned a shot at a fortune in the Middle East</title>
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      <description>As an avid runner for most of my life, I cannot even begin to count the kilometres I’ve pounded out all over the world. On top of that is pretty much a daily routine of treadmill running at night to wind down from the day.
I’ve completed a bunch of 10km races and even a marathon, and running has become my athletic saviour after injuries have made playing contact sports almost impossible for my body to handle.
But lately I’m feeling attacked, vilified and even targeted: I am one of the many who...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2018 08:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Running with headphones is not cheating. Get off your high horses</title>
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      <description>With the arrest of Huawei CFO Sabrina Meng Wanzhou at the request of the United States, Vancouver has found itself at the epicentre of a ground-shaking, magnitude-nine, monster of a story.
A distillation of two superpowers’ current and future battle for primacy on the world’s economic stage, the case has roiled financial markets and provoked fury from Beijing, as the US-China trade war hangs in the balance. It is a tale of epic sweep.

And yet on another, granular, level, Vancouverites could be...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2018 21:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Surprise, surprise, Vancouver: Huawei CFO Sabrina Meng Wanzhou is a mansion-owning, satellite-parenting reverse immigrant</title>
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      <description>Nineteen games into the season and Manchester City have only lost once – at home to Olympique Lyonnais in their opening Champions League match in front of a largely derided 40,111 crowd, City’s lowest of the season.
The French side led 2-0 at half-time, with former Manchester United players Rafael Pereira da Silva and Memphis Depay among their best players on the night.
“A great night – one for all Manchester United fans to enjoy too,” Rafael said. “I’m still a United boy and some of my old...</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2018 09:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Lyon’s Rafael still red and relishing the prospect of a Champions League double over Manchester City</title>
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      <description>In the lead-up to “the biggest moment in our history”, Hong Kong’s rugby team talked a big game.
After head coach Leigh Jones finalised his 30-man roster for the 2019 Rugby World Cup Repechage, he declared the team the “most prepared squad ever”.
Hong Kong Rugby Union chief rugby operations officer Dai Rees ramped up expectations, saying: “We could not be going into a tournament on a better footing”.

 
And right before their opening match against Germany, Rees doubled down on how confident he...</description>
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      <description>When Conor MgGregor squeaks on social media, his words always manage to wing their way around the world and the Irish star always chooses those words for maximum impact.
So when McGregor took to the airwaves on Friday to lay in to One Championship’s chairman and CEO Chatri Sityodtong you had to wonder “Why?”.
McGregor tweeted his concerns about Sityodtong’s “greed” for apparently influencing a not-yet-made decision by the UFC to close down its flyweight division.

You must now take all the...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2018 05:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>The world of MMA has shifted on its axis, and everyone is now noticing One Championship</title>
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      <description>Mark your calendars – World Pasta Day is October 25, and not only is it a good opportunity to dig into some delicious food but a chance also to help Hong Kong’s neediest.
From October 25-31, 22 Hong Kong restaurants will each serve one special pasta dish, part of the price of which will go to Foodlink Foundation, a charity that helps the city’s poor.
Michelin Guide’s new international director led global expansion
Among the restaurants taking part are Grissini, Ciak In The Kitchen, Eat.it,...</description>
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      <title>World Pasta Day: eat so others can at these Hong Kong Italian restaurants in the next week</title>
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      <description>Saturday brought mixed fortunes for Anthony Martial, 22, Kylian Mbappe, 19 and Ousmane Dembele 21, three magnificent, speedy, young French wingers born and raised in Paris or its hinterland, whose combined last transfer fees totalled €400 million (HK$3.6 billion).
Martial, from Les Ulis, a tough banlieue of 22,000 which also gave the world Thierry Henry and Patrice Evra, scored twice for Manchester United at Chelsea.
Banlieues can have negative connotations – these large working-class, non–white...</description>
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      <title>Anthony Martial, Kylian Mbappe and Ousmane Dembele prove Paris is most fertile ground for future football superstars</title>
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      <description>The Chinese Super League had some English football fans up in arms over the weekend.
British satellite broadcaster Sky Sports opted to show Guangzhou Evergrande play Beijing Renhe on its dedicated football channel on Saturday lunchtime (UK time) over Leeds United visiting Blackburn Rovers.
Fans of the Championship rivals could watch their early kick-off via the red button but were angered that this meant a worse camera angle and less of the glamour of a full broadcast.




How Marcelo ‘El Loco’...</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2018 04:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Guangzhou Evergrande edge closer to Chinese Super League title but there’s drama at both ends – and more to come</title>
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      <description>World Rugby is worried that the international game is losing significance because the vast majority of games are friendlies.
To make sure the matches still have significance and attract audiences, World Rugby has proposed an annual tournament with the top 12 teams in the world.
But though it might improve the signifiance of each individual match, it will devalue the signifiance of the World Cup.
Things need to change, but not like this.
The suggestion is that the top six teams from the Northern...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2018 05:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Global rugby calendar proposal would devalue the World Cup, cause more early retirements and is unnecessary</title>
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      <description>Athletic Bilbao were leading 2-0 against Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United at Old Trafford when Ander Herrera spoke to his coach, Marcelo Bielsa.
“Bielsa wouldn’t let us stop,” Herrera said. “We thought he wanted to close down the game. No, Bielsa wanted a third and a fourth. He could live with conceding a goal from a counter attack because that meant we’d have been attacking. He’s a football romantic. He thinks that football should be a spectacle.”
Athletic won 3-2 playing prodigious football....</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2018 08:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>How Marcelo ‘El Loco’ Bielsa is working his inimitable magic in restoring Leeds United to the top of English football</title>
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      <description>The reaction was inevitable. The two biggest populations in the world met in a football match on Saturday night and once again it ended in embarrassment for China.
India have long been an accommodating opposition for the Chinese national team. China have not lost any of their 15 meetings, winning eight and drawing seven. The game in Suzhou fell into the latter column and what’s worse is that it was goalless despite China knocking at the door again and again.
Goals are a problem for China. Wu Lei...</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2018 04:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Where to now for the hapless China national team after they miss another open goal against regional minnows India?</title>
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      <description>The final countdown to the Rugby World Cup is upon us. All the auditions are over and now the show begins. It is the most open tournament in the competition’s history, with more genuine contenders than ever before. But who will win?

Pool A: Ireland, Scotland, Japan, Russia, Samoa
This is perhaps the hardest pool of all to call, not because it is packed with the best teams, but because the best teams in it blow hot and cold. 
With Scotland you never know which team will turn up. Scotland lost to...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2018 08:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Rugby World Cup 2019: who will win and why it’s good for New Zealand and South Africa to be in the same pool</title>
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      <description>This Chinese Super League season is officially the hardest fought title race of the Guangzhou Evergrande era. Wins for leaders Shanghai SIPG and the champions means that the four-point margin remains with five games to go and Evergrande are yet to have reached the summit this season. Over the last 26 weeks, Shanghai SIPG have been top for 14, Beijing Guoan for 10 and Shandong Luneng for two.
In 2015, when Evergrande were run close by SIPG, this matchweek was the one that they reached the summit...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2018 06:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Get ready for new Chinese Super League champions: Guangzhou Evergrande run will be stopped say Fifa 19 and Football Manager</title>
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      <description>October 1, 2017 was a significant day in Catalan history when an unofficial independence referendum was held in the region. FC Barcelona were due to play Las Palmas that afternoon but as images of police aggression dominated global headlines, rumours circulated about whether the game would go ahead. Finally, it was announced that it would be played behind closed doors.
Outside Camp Nou as the crowds streamed away, Melbourne-born mother Lisa Schnepf waved her match tickets in the air, and shouted...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2018 01:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Neymar and Paris Saint-Germain make a young fan’s dream come true after he follows the Brazilian around the world to meet him</title>
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