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China Says It’s Ready to “Reform” Re-Education Camps

February 27, 2013 By Kathryn DeHoyos Leave a Comment

China’s re-education through labor camps have become the very thing they were originally designed to punish.

Filed Under: Good Feed Blog Tagged With: china, Communist Party, Hong Kong, Human Rights Watch, hunan province, maya wang, ministry of justice, NPR, tang hui, Twitter, wang gongyi, xinhua

Fauja Singh the “Turbaned Tornado” Runs Mini-Marathon for Women’s Rights

February 7, 2013 By the Editors Leave a Comment

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Fauja Singh said, “I am pained to listen that my daughters, granddaughters and great-granddaughters are no longer safe.”

Filed Under: Good Feed Blog Tagged With: delhi, fauja singh, gang rape, Hong Kong, hong kong marathon, India, joginder singh sawhney, mohali, punjab, rozana spokesman, Sikh, sikhism, south china morning post, the hindu, turbaned tornado, world's oldest marathon runner

Les Misérables: On Manliness & More

December 27, 2012 By Cameron Conaway 11 Comments

How the best film I’ve watched in years pulls hard at the archetype of manliness and far more.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Social Justice Tagged With: Anne Hathaway, best films of 2012, fantine, Hong Kong, Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables, musicals, rhyming couplets, Russell Crowe, sasha cohen, Thénardier, Victor Hugo, wolverine

It’s All Just A Little Bit Of History Repeating …

August 9, 2012 By Seán Flynn 8 Comments

Seán Flynn on the end of American Empire, and how the internet is more like the Catholic Church than you imagined.

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Historical Perspectives on Goodness, The Good Life Tagged With: America, architecture, assassin's creed, British Empire, Catholic Church, classicism, colonialism, commerce, conflict, dark ages, economy, Europe, Fall of Rome, finance, free market, global economy, global trade, gothic, Great Britain, Great Depression, Great War, Hedley Bull, Hong Kong, imperialism, industry, information, international relations, internet, London, Louisiana State, market crash, medievalism, mercenaries, Middle Ages, neo-medievalism, New York, Pax Americana, Pax Romana, private military, Roman Empire, romance, Singapore, Technology, The Grapes of Wrath, Travels in Hyperreality, Umberto Eco, United States, Video Games, Wall Street, Walt Disney, Western civilization, world history, World War I

17 Things You Can Learn From Traveling

August 4, 2012 By Atalwin Pilon Leave a Comment

Humans are friendly and honest the vast majority of the time. Taxi drivers outside airports are the exception.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Lifestyle, The Good Life, Travel Tagged With: acceptance, adventure, advice, airports, Baghdad, basics, car bomb, couch surfing, courage, Culture, discovery, energy, expectations, friendship, goodness, happiness, hitchhiking, Hong Kong, humanity, Iraq, Journey, kindness, language barriers, learned traveling, life wisdom, lifestyle, people, Perspective, praise, Priorities, relationships, risk, Sex and Relationships, surprises, taxi drivers, The Good Life, travel, Traveling, traveling cheaply, values, White Privilege

I Regret Finishing High School

July 12, 2012 By Noah Brand 8 Comments

Noah Brand’s eccentric mother offered an alternative to his senior year in public high school. He regrets turning her down.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Regret, The Good Life Tagged With: butter, course, depression, driving, Families, film, French film, high school, Hong Kong, mental illness, mothers, movies, noir, popcorn, psychiatric evaluation, public school, regret, Rocky Horror Picture Show, senior year, sons, study, suspension, The Good Life, Truffaut, UC Theatre

Let’s Go to Thailand

July 10, 2012 By Atalwin Pilon Leave a Comment

Atalwin flies to Thailand to study with a warrior: a former Thai boxer who became a Buddhist monk.

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Travel Tagged With: abroad, Asia, Bangkok, Buddhism, buddhist monk, china, Culture, Dutch, Holland, Hong Kong, international travel, monk, practice, religion, spiritual, study, Thai boxing, Thailand, The Good Life, travel, warrior

Leap of Faith

July 3, 2012 By Atalwin Pilon 1 Comment

Atalwin Pilon took a leap of faith—into another country. Then he did it again, and again.

Filed Under: Business Ethics, The Good Life, Work/Life Balance Tagged With: Atalwin's Quest, business, Challenges, china, Chinese, Chinese culture, clients, coaching, consulting, corporations, courage, Faith, finance, Hong Kong, IFC, India, ING, international, introverted, introverts, negotiations, opening up, people, Philips, programmers, race, sharing, success, Thailand, yacht club

Science: Physicists Prove That Time Travel Isn’t Possible

July 26, 2011 By Hannibal Tabu Leave a Comment

Time travel isn’t possible according to scientists in Hong Kong.

Filed Under: komplicated, Technology Tagged With: exceed, faster, Hong Kong, impossible, Light, not, photon, slower, speed, Time, travel

Guestpost #54: thenakedlistener – Ten things I've learned from clubbing in Hong Kong

May 13, 2011 By Josh Bowman 3 Comments

I stumbled on The Naked Listener’s blog recently, and it’s great: http://thenakedlistener.wordpress.com This is The Naked Listener’s bio. Note: I USE THE WORD ’clubbing’ as in clubbing + the act of going to gigs + a night out. It isn’t right, but then again, most things aren’t in this town. Clubbing in Hong Kong is way, way more [...]

Filed Under: Ten Things I've Learned Tagged With: bar, club, clubbing, gig, glasses, Hong Kong, music, PDAs, rock

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