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Taiwan-based EVA Air and toymaker Sanrio have joined paws and sent an adorable fleet of three Hello Kitty-themed Airbus 330-300s to do battle against their many competitors in the short-route airline wars in East Asia, flying routes between cities such as Taipei, Fukuoka, Tokyo (Narita), Sapporo, Incheon, Hong Kong and Guam. EVA spokespersons were quick, however, to quell rumors that pilots of these aircraft would be dressed as Pikachu. (BuzzFeed ~ Thank You for Choosing Hello Kitty Airlines)
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Daniel Wu interviewed as part of his guest attendance at Cinema Pacific Film Festival at his alma mater, University of Oregon. Congrats Dan. (Daily Emerald – Daniel Wu)
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We mentioned it once a while ago in June 2011 and now it looks to be banned. Babies born in Hong Kong can stay in Hong Kong which then includes the parents. Mainland Chinese have been flocking to Hong Kong to give birth. The tension between Hong Kong and Mainland continues. (LATimes – Anchor)
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I was introduced to Nigel Ong when the Animal Style program was practically finished, and was only able to squeeze in one of his latest shorts. But he really deserves his own film festival. That’s I.T. (2006) not only documents one of Hong Kong’s much-loved and missed spots, but pretty much maps out the territory’s entire scene–not to mention visiting rippers including Kien Lieu, Koston, Janowsky… Yet Nigel is no scenester; his follow-up work, Skate First (2009), showed Chinese groms how to rip and his latest work, Skateboarding Is Love (2010), is 100 percent local without the locals-only vibe.
More mainland dislike. It starts with birth tourism. More and more and coming to Hong Kong and giving birth thus giving their children the right of being a Hong Kong resident which means schooling, travel and more. The public hates it. Isn’t this happening in the USA too? There will always going to be a balancing act to figure out what’s fair and what works. (MSNBC – Mainlanders)
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