Change your name, win a prize – Hong Kong News

While McDonald’s constantly pushes itself as a family central, kid-friendly place, it seems that Mc D’s has proven to contribute to society on a different level: social center. Last week someone captured some local drama as a panicky boyfriend tries to tell his girlfriend that he has contracted HIV/AIDS

Date guru and self-proclaimed über-seducer Lisa Johnson Mandell recently came to Hong Kong to answer the question that has puzzled unattractive women since the invention of cash. A total of 98 females coughed up HK$ 380 to attend the seminar, as well as two fellas longing to take a Richie Rich up the ol’ dirt road.

Story about the truly shockingfact that 1.3 million Hong Kongers living below the poverty line (almost 19% of the entire population, wtf) In this metropolitan city, approximately 100.000 elders, women, recent immigrants, children and handicapped folks have to live in cages, cubicles or small partitioned flats.

I wonder if people who make controversial statements about the party ever disappear from Hong Kong like they've been known to do on the mainland. If it does happen, then I nominate the guy quoted in the last paragraph as the most likely to go missing for February 2012, "I’m not against fellow Chinese from the mainland, but the party is not China.”