July 2006
(31st July 2006)
Yesterday was a sunny Sunday, so of course we spent it visiting a prison and torture complex. The US-Chiang Kaishek Criminal Acts Exhibition Hall and SACO prisons, to give it its official title. Run by the Kuomintang with the support of the US, according to official history, and burned - and all the prisoners shot - on November 27, 1949. This, says our interpreter ...
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(29th July 2006)
It's 34 million actually, in the Chongqing region. I know this from the sumptuous Chongqing Urban Planning Exhibition and Gallery, which has a model of the city which would make any model maker swoon. It's got lights and everything, and a soundtrack of angelic singing. The highlight, though, is an interactive Chat with the Chief, where the director of the exhibition and gallery pre-recordedly tests ...
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(29th July 2006)
I am in Chongqing, in the near dead centre of China. It's a good place to start, having never been to China (mainland) before. I was transported here by the luxurious and efficient Dragonair, which is as luxurious and efficient as the astonishingly spacious Hong Kong airport. I was transported to the airport by the equally astonishingly efficient Hong Kong express train, which not only ...
(27th July 2006)
From Hong Kong Tatler, p. 94: "Chow Belles: Sharon Kwok Pong and Perveen Crawford reveal their dreams to be a designer and an astronaut to Cherry Cheung at the world's first Armani bar."