Posts Tagged ‘Hong Kong’

The Wall Street Journal Takes Aim at Hong Kong

The Wall Street Journal launched a new section of WSJ.com offering business, financial, and lifestyle news targeted toward readers located in or interested in Hong Kong, along with Exchange, a finance blog.

The Hong Kong section will be available on the newspaper’s Chinese-language site sometime in December.

Marisa Wong is the newly appointed editor of the Hong Kong section, which also offers features including: The Moment, personal accounts of Hong Kong moments; Face Off, two experts debating a topic; Radar, in which Hong Kong residents reveal five topics they’re following; Inventory, a look at the retail scene; and Eight Questions for, question-and-answer interviews with movers and shakers.

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A New Niche Social Network… for the Deceased

414px-Sha_Tin_crowd_2In Hong Kong there is barely enough space to add to the skyscraper skyline, let alone find room for burial grounds and memorials. Some perspective on just how crowded Hong Kong is: its Mongkok shopping district is the most densely populated place on earth, with the Guinness Book of World Record estimating 338,189 people per square mile (New York City’s population density is 26,403 per square mile). In a country this crowded, the government has opted for an innovative way to allow its citizens to mourn their loved ones – on a social network.
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