nick’s (n)-line life

A strange things has been happening in China & Hong Kong in recent days. A new sort of Politics is taking shape: the kind that shifts and moves before one’s eyes; the kind that can be hard to pin down or define; and the kind that appears to be largely subjective. One might go as [...]

Over the past few months there have been posters all over the HKU campus advertising for the CBL China International Law School. I must say that at first, I thought the idea was rather neat. Here’s their blurb:
English speaking students get the opportunity to study Chinese and International business law during the three-week course. No [...]

Unfortunately, having neglected my blog [again!], and just come back to try after a long time away, it seems that it has developed some technical problems. Specifically, the pesky thing just wiped the post I had finished writing. Grrr… Anyway, a Wordpress Upgrade is somewhat overdue anyway, so I will try and get this [...]

In the past, my prolific Youtube browsing has yielded some interesting results for China-related interest and language study. Today, however, I came across a video that comes in as my greatest youtube find to date. Looking at the 7 month old date stamp, I’m probably horribly behind, but I was still excited to find out [...]

Dr. Peter Witt has carried out a study to determine the effects of drugs and alcohol on spiders’ webs. The results are pretty interesting…

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Fly a lot? Often doze through those boring pre-flight announcements? Well then, think how much better they’d be if there was a bit more honesty…
The Economist has done exactly this, and it’s extremely funny.

Yep, after much build-up, today is the big day in Singapore:
IBN Live — Polls opened at 0000 GMT at more than 400 voting stations and were to close 12 hours later. By late morning, one-fifth of the 1.2 million registered voters had cast their compulsory votes, the elections department said.

The Contenders:

and the currently ruling PAP:

Results [...]