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February 24, 2004

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The great thing about the South China Morning Post is you don't even have to look at the comics page to get a laugh. Today provides two examples.

Firstly there's that most Hong Kong of problems: technology causing more harm than good.

It may prove a big deterrent to people wanting one of Hong Kong's new hi-tech 3G phones - the prospect of being seen in the wrong place when answering a video call from their spouse. But technical experts at Hutchison Telecom are developing a face-saving solution that would let customers choose a background setting before taking a call.

This means a husband who is enjoying a drink in a bar could appear on screen with an image of an office in the background, while a wife who is out playing mahjong could be "seen" at home in the kitchen. While the image of the phone owner might move, the background would remain static, so users would have to be careful not to have immobile clocks behind them.
Where normally HK is eager to snap up the latest and greatest, if it's going to get in the way of a good night out then forget it. The unwritten but obvious implication is for those who are engaged in intimate relations with a non-spouse being called by spouse and being asked where the hell they were. Of course have some deault background isn't going to help your cause much, but it sure beats the velvet walls and mirrored ceilings of a brothel*.

Secondly it turns out the esteemed management of HK's gleaming Chep Lap Kok airport have found some taking the name literally.

The Airport Authority is outraged that a Japanese pornographic video company secretly deployed a model to pose nude at various locations at Hong Kong International Airport, officials said yesterday.

The report said the 60-minute video features a model in her 20s wearing only a pair of high heels and a silver raincoat which she intermittently opens to reveal her naked body.

The film includes a 20-minute segment filmed at various locations inside and around Chek Lap Kok. One segment of the video reportedly features the model flashing the camera and engaging in lascivious acts in direct view of the airline counters at the departure level.

Damn it, they'll have plenty more people at the airport if they just tell us when they are making the next one. I for one am going to be much more on the lookout next time I'm checking in.

Although it turns out these problems are not Hong Kong's alone.

* So I've been told. I have no experience with the interior of brothels. Especially Shanghai Cindy's place.

 posted by Simon on 02.24.04 at 10:27 AM in the




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