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Welcome to Hong Kong Blogs Review, the only website that reviews HK blogs in essay format. Between our reviewers, we have read hundreds of HK blogs thus far. The majority of HK blogs we choose to review are given a favorable or neutral rating. In general, most HK blogs presented here are worthy of your time; the bloggers have interesting things to say and their blogs are enjoyable or fun to read.
Moreover, we are non-profit, non-commercial, and on the blogrolls or recommended lists of many bloggers of distinction. This is our fourth year online. Hong Kong Blogs Review is featured on the top result-pages of countless key-word searches by all search engines. This site is widely read; our audience is worldwide. Thanks to our loyal readers and supporters over the years, Hong Kong Blogs Review has become the most familiar fixture in Hong Kong's blogging world.
To all those bloggers whose writing sometimes mystified us, often enlightened us, and invariably enthralled us, here, we give them our gratitude.
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Hong Kong Blogs Review is a Hong Kong blog that reviews Hong Kong blogs.
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Newly Discovered Blogs We Like |
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Our Thanks ...
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University of Hong Kong - Wiki website
It is an honor indeed to be recognized by the University of Hong Kong, a top premier institution for higher learning in Asia. We thank the university for putting Hong Kong Blogs Review on the recommended list of its Wiki website under the section of Blogs and Commentary. We are humbled and thankful.
We have enormous respect for the university, its tradition of tolerance for dissent and its regard for freedom of speech. We are proud to count many of its students and graduates our friends.
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Living in Hong Kong is now in Asian Correspondent
Elmer Cagape, the blogger of a popular HK blog, Living in Hong Kong, is now writing his blog in Asian Correspondent. We wish him continued success and thank him for a link from his new host to Hong Kong Blogs Review.
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Things Asian Press
We are delighted and appreciative for a link from Things Asian Press, a publisher and seller of unique travel books and other things on Asia. They are inclusive, various voices from different backgrounds can be heard in their travel website and publications. We encourage this type of perspective and we recommend Things Asian Press highly.
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Joyceyland
A bit of news, the blogger, Joyce Lau, a former editor of HK Magazine, now a writer for The New York Times, has informed us that she moved her blog to Blogspot. Here, we thank her for a link to our site from her new home.
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Alice Poon
We would like to give our thanks to Alice Poon (not to be confused with an actress of the same name), an outstanding writer and translator, for a link from her blog to ours.
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Musings on Life in Hong Kong
Here we acknowledge our appreciation to Professor Stephen Chan for putting a link from his blog to Hong Kong Blogs Review. Food, travel, social injustice, politics, HK Chinese, science and religion are among many interesting topics the professor covers in his blog, MUSINGS ON LIFE IN HONG KONG.
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The Baroness of Tao
We'd like to convey our thanks for a new link from THE BARONESS OF TAO. The baroness loves many things Chinese. This blog is a pleasure to read.
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Your Links
Our thanks go to many of you for putting links in your blogs, websites, and social networking sites to Hong Kong Blogs Review; we are grateful for your endorsement. The list is long and growing; we regret that we cannot thank you individually here. We know who you are; your support is heartfelt. We have to plan meeting together with some of you more than just once or twice a year.
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Samples of Some Reviews by Category -- not a complete list of our reviews :
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Breath of Fresh Air
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Humor
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Rothwell-Gornt
- it's done and gone, but the humor is still there.
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Kung Fu Chewy
- a fan of Carl Hiassen, the blogger writes like him. This is one
of the most entertaining HK blogs.
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Writers & Artists
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Business
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Global Property Guide
We recommend this business website. It's informative on HK's property market,
though it's not a blog per se.
Mr. Matthew Montagu-Pollack of GLOBAL PROPERTY GUIDE has been generous to us by providing a link from his business website to Hong Kong Blogs Review. We appreciate it and here we reciprocate.
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Sun Bin
- an articulate HK businessman with an analytical mind.
Beneath the Peak
- an savvy Canadian guerrilla businessman on the home turf of the Asian business world.
China Oyster
- we don't know how reliable his investment advices are. "Do not bet the farm", as the Americans would say.
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Fun to Read
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HK Living & HK Life
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Politics & Society
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See HK through Their Eyes
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Reverse Immigration
- a stranger in a strange land. An unprepared sensitive soul newly landed here from the US.
Nury Vittachi
- a different view of Hong Kong.
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Big White Guy
- a for-profit website for people outside of Hong Kong.
China Droll
- a Norwegian expat with the usual perspective.
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Something Different
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Visiting or Moving to HK
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Food & Fashion
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Frequently Asked Questions |
Why does this site look different?
The source codes for this site are not generated by using "website designing tools" -- over 90% of websites on the Internet are designed by "tools"; Hong Kong Blogs Review is physically and personally written line-by-line in various computer languages by our editor. No, he is not a "computer whiz" or a "techie", he is a degreed software professional. Because this site is tailor-made and its codes are not produced like most other sites, Hong Kong Blogs Review looks crisp, one-of-a-kind, and has a smartly responsive feel.
Why is this site different?
The blogs we present here are by bloggers of various backgrounds, not all from a certain region or a particular country. Unlike other " blog listing / reviewing / rating sites ", Hong Kong Blogs Review is not mainly a platform for bloggers to advertise or promote their blogs and for the hosting site to profit from selling advertisements.
On the contrary, we have no financial interest in operating this site; Hong Kong Blogs Review does not accept any paid ads. Our interest is to provide our readers genuine critical takes and honest opinions on the blogs we choose to review -- we tell you what we believe to be true, not what we think the average reader would like to hear. We do not mince words nor have a shortage of praise. Hence, the difference you see that we hope you'd enjoy.
Who are we?
We are sons and daughters of this city. Our families have found love and joy, and have shed tears and much sweat on this land for generations. | |
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