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Reading Time: 3 minutes Men Know It’s Better to Carry Nothing – The Cut – Medium – women clean up because fashion allows it. She pointed to the size of women’s bags, which allow us — like sherpas or packhorses — to lug around the tool kits of servitude. A woman is expected to be prepared for every eventuality, … Read moreICYMI | 万一你错过了| 당신이 그것을 놓친 경우에 대비해서
Reading Time: 1 minute Illegal spy cameras are still easy to find in Shenzhen’s gadget paradise | Abacus – this will make you very paranoid Jollibee acquires US-based Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf | Marketing | Campaign Asia – this is huge Coffee Bean nd Tea Leaf is a credible Starbucks competitor with a substantial footprint and great tasting … Read moreICYMI | 万一你错过了| 당신이 그것을 놓친 경우에 대비해서
Reading Time: 1 minute Work & Co.’s clean looking website for Celine. Céline.com from Work and Co on Vimeo. I have deliberately ignored a lot of the brands trying to cling on to the proverbial vapour trail of the Apollo space programme; but this video caught my eye because it showed the amazing engineering chops of Sony. Just look … Read moreFive for Friday | 五日（星期五) | 금요일에 다섯 가지
Reading Time: 1 minute Amazing Singaporean content on what its like to lose a child. Hong Kong bakery’s ‘anti-extradition bill’ mooncakes and cookies leave customers hungry for more | South China Morning Post – given that grandparents often hold more pro-establishment views than their children and grand children I can imagine that this likely to make for very tense … Read moreThings that made my day this week
Reading Time: 1 minute Can Chinese internet pioneer Sohu finally pull off a comeback after missing the mobile era? | SCMP.com – interesting parallels with Yahoo! in the west, but without the incompetent board and Carl Icahn Anti-China Bonds Between Hong Kong and Taiwan Are Growing – The Atlantic – The year was 1984: China was in the early … Read moreICYMI | 万一你错过了| 당신이 그것을 놓친 경우에 대비해서