The Alliance‘s Lee Cheuk-yan and Mak-hoi-wah are visiting Calgary today (July 31, 2011), I hope I’ll have a chance to interview Mr. Lee Cheuk-yan. The following are some news and other video clips during their Vancouver stop.
Central, Hong Kong (中環) is an interesting place to work, especially for ladies, I guess. As a boy and a young man visiting 中環, it never registered in my mind how special Central is. People seems to dress up a little (like my mom), and most of the time people were quite nice to me.
Having seen how things had changed over the years in 中環, I guess I’ve taken many things for granted (or simply not sensitive enough to care). As a tourist, I miss having the Star Ferry terminal right in 中環 for a fun tourist harbour trip but when I was still living in HK, I almost always took the MTR for the Central to TST trip for speed!
When the time comes, I think I will mostly remember 中環 by my great memories with my elders (長輩) and us young kids (小朋友) I met when I was little via my 中環 connection. I care about the people and was saddened to heard one of the 長輩 had passed away. I’m much less sentimental about things, buildings, and even “good” food like roast goose at Yung Kee (which wasn’t as good as before) .
P.S. Memory of an old man: Although I don’t remember anyone had volunteered to take the credit, but I remember us 小朋友 pushing an alarm one afternoon in my mom’s office (also known as party central). The alarm actually wasn’t fake and it lead to a few policemen came knocking on the door to make sure things were ok. :)
I guess, to me, these kind of small memories are the ones that I will remember.
I think my home convection-oven-roasted chicken is very close in taste and texture to 炸子雞 (crispy fried chicken), and likely much healthier as it removes the oil from the chicken as opposed to deep fried the chicken!
Anyway, I found the following videos instructive in how to cut up a chicken, chinese style.
Burger King and its PR agency, Edelman, are set to part ways after the chain issued a request for proposals to public relations agencies of various sizes about two weeks ago.
Edelman, which has worked with the company since 2005, said it was invited to defend the business but declined. The Miami-based fast feeder also did not respond to a request for comment.
An executive close to the account told Ad Age that the company is looking to cut back significantly on its PR spending. That approach is on trend with other spending patterns at Burger King, given that the brand’s measured media spending in the U.S. has shrunk over the past three years. According to Kantar Media, it doled out $301 million on domestic measured media in 2010, down from $308 million in 2009 and $327 million in 2008.
The review also adds to a series of recent agency changes across disciplines, and it’s the latest taking place without an official chief marketing officer at the company. Since its acquisition by investment firm 3G Capital last fall, the company has shifted its media-buying account fromMindshare to Starcom, as well as its creative duties from CP&B to Dentsu’s McGarryBowen.
Exec VP-Global CMO Natalia Franco left the company in February, and North America CMO Mike Kappitt departed in December. Mr. Kappitt recently took on the CMO role at Outback Steakhouse. Another recent departure includes media and interactive director Tia Lang, who had worked at Burger King for more than six years and recently joined Bacardi USA. It’s also understood that a high percentage of marketing employees offered a severance packaged have accepted.
During the creative review, Ad Age reported that the company encouraged agencies involved in the pitch to come up with ideas outside of its King icon and “Have it your way” tagline. The company recently resigned the King, and, in an effort to boost lagging sales — the chain experienced continual negative same-store sales through the first-quarter 2011 — it’ll likely continue to shake up its positioning to focus more on the product than brand image.
John Baird, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, was right when he said on Monday that “both the Canadian people and the Chinese people don’t have a lot of time for white-collar fraudsters.” But the conundrum caused by the case of Lai Changxing, the Vancouver resident who faces extradition to China to face trial on smuggling and bribery charges, is entirely one of China’s own making.
Criminal law in China is a stacked deck. The U.S. State Department reports that, of the 997,872 criminal defendants tried in 2009, 1,206 were acquitted – a 99.88-per-cent conviction rate (as compared with Canada’s rate of around 60 per cent). Over 70 per cent of defendants don’t receive legal representation. Political meddling, and forced labour or torture during detention, are common. The crimes of which Mr. Lai stands accused could carry the ultimate sanction: The death penalty is applied thousands of times a year, according to Amnesty International, including for non-violent crimes. China’s system simply does not meet Canadian standards of justice. It doesn’t come close.
At the same time, the mere prospect of injustice abroad – however heinous – is not a criterion for admission to Canada. Mr. Lai has been in Canada for almost 12 years, and he has never succeeded in securing refugee status. A recent federal government “pre-removal risk assessment” has cleared the path for his extradition, bolstered by Chinese assurances that Mr. Lai would not be tortured or put to death.
Canada cannot simply hold onto Mr. Lai, and thereby become a de facto haven for any alleged criminal from a country with a poor human-rights record. But Canada is right to insist on conditions for his return, which ought to awaken China to the need for a more open and transparent system. After all, there’s a lot riding on the case for China, too: Mr. Lai is accused of embezzling or improperly obtaining billions of dollars; the Communist Party’s People’s Daily newspaper calls him one of the “top 10 runaway Chinese tycoons.”
Mr. Lai is still in Canada because we have a largely depoliticized, procedurally fair system, with ample opportunities to appeal. China meets none of those standards. Given that, his fate in China, no matter his guilt or innocence, will be sealed. Whatever true justice Mr. Lai receives will be in this country.
For the record. Sad to realize 董建華 is better than we HK has now. Not that 董建華 is acceptable, but in comparison he is better. Here is an insightful observation, “董伯也許不那麼靈活機變醒目，但忠厚，而且也願意傾聽市民的聲音。品格絕對遠超現任特首，而且也絕非下任三個疑似特首可比。”
I really enjoy this new rendition of “三人行”! I love the original is a classic and no one wants it replaced. But we can’t simply live in the past. Great job to everyone involved. Beautifully done. Congrats!”
P.S. Here is the old classic. Strangely, I like the older and more mature Ah Lam 林子祥 in the new rendition of 〈三人行〉 even more! Smoother voice and more mature sound.
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