Saturday 29 September 2018

Rocky Wong 2129 Notable Name of the Day

Rocky Wong, sales director, Centaline Property Agency, Hong Kong (reference here)

see other Rocky names at 2031 and 0503 Notable Name of the Day

Of English origin. Nickname for Rocco (Italian), the name of a 14th-century saint. Saint Roque (16th century) was a Spanish saint

Also familiar in modern times due to boxer Rocky Marciano and his fictional counterpart, Rocky Balboa, of the "Rocky" series of movies.

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Thursday 27 September 2018

Amen Ng 2128 Notable Name of the Day

Amen Ng Man-yee (Ms), spokeswoman, RTHK, Hong Kong (reference here)

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Tuesday 25 September 2018

Freedom Leung 2127 Notable Name of the Day

Freedom Leung, clinical psychologist, Prince of Wales Hospital, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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Sunday 23 September 2018

Carven Yan 2126 Notable Name of the Day

Carven Yan, regional associate director, Midland Realty, Hong Kong (reference here)

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Friday 21 September 2018

Windy Li 2125 Notable Name of the Day

Windy Li (Ms), reporter, SCMP, Hong Kong (reference here)

Windy is of English derivation, and its meaning is "friend". Windy is a variant form of Wendy.

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Thursday 20 September 2018

Videoclips Typhoon Mangkhut Mangosteen in Hong Kong

Super Typhoon Mangkhut (Thai for mangosteen) hit the Philippines on 14 September 2018, and as it approached Hong Kong was downgraded to a Severe Storm. Nevertheless, on 16 September 2018 it tore into the city with sustained wind speeds of 195km/h, coming within 100km of the city at its closest, making it the most powerful since Typhoon Hope in 1979.
 








Wednesday 19 September 2018

Almond Li 2124 Notable Name of the Day

Almond Li (Ms), reporter, VIU TV News, Hong Kong
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Monday 17 September 2018

Anson Tang 2123 Notable Name of the Day

Anson Tang Tsz-on, chairman, Government Lifeguards General Union, Hong Kong (reference here)
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Saturday 15 September 2018

Keina Chiu 2122 Notable Name of the Day

Keina Fukaumi Chiu (Ms), reporter, TVB News, Hong Kong (link)
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Thursday 13 September 2018

Chermaine Lee 2121 Notable Name of the Day

Chermaine Lee Sheung-man, now a 25-year-old university student, used to go to Beacon College, in the run-up to her A-level exams. 
“If I hadn’t attended tutorial school I wouldn’t have succeeded in getting into a university,” Lee said (reference here).

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Tuesday 11 September 2018

Cello Chan 2120 Notable Name of the Day

Cello Chan, assistant general manager, project marketing, Wheelock Properties, Hong Kong (reference here)
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Sunday 9 September 2018

Ivan Ho 2119 Notable Name of the Day

Ivan Ho, administrative assistant, Centre for Sports and Exercise, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 
email: hoivan at hku.hk
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see Funny Ho at 2113 Notable Name of the Day

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Friday 7 September 2018

Davin Wong 2118 Notable Name of the Day

Davin Wong, president, HKU Student Union, Hong Kong (2018) quoted in a news article about the murder of a professor's wife that was found in a suitcase in the professor's office at the University of Hong Kong.

Davin is of Hebrew and Welsh origin, and the name means "beloved". Davin is an alternate spelling of David (Hebrew).

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Wednesday 5 September 2018

Alfonso Ngan 2117 Notable Name of the Day

Alfonso Ngan Hing-wan, professor and head, department of mechanical engineering, Hong Kong University (where the body of associate professor Cheung Kie-chung's wife, was found stuffed in a suitcase in August 2018), Hong Kong

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Monday 3 September 2018

Drink Driving. Who Is Irresponsible?

This ad is outdated, outrageous and out of context!

This government public service announcement about drink driving only takes into account the driver's perspective and responsibility. However, ALL parties are responsible. In this frequently-played ad (which dates back to the 1990s), the driver's wife and his friends all know the driver is drinking ... so why don't they act like responsible adults and take action?


If you know your lover, relative or friend has been drinking, what do you do? In the ad, the wife knowingly and stupidly gets into the car with a drunk driver! And subsequently she get killed in a car accident. Real smart!

The INTENDED message is targetted at the irresponsible driver (scare tactics?), but the REAL message coming through is that the wife died because she was irresponsible and STUPID to get in a car with a drunk driver! Please use common sense.

This ad is titled "If you drink, don't drive!" but it downplays everyone else's responsibility ... including the government departments and broadcasters (who are too lazy to update their drink-driving prevention campaigns).


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Shara Lee 2116 Notable Name of the Day

Shara Lee Wee-yee, assistant professor, Department of Health Technology and Informatics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and mistress of Khaw Kim-sun, 53, an associate professor in anaesthesiology at Chinese University, who is currently standing trial at the High Court over the murder of his wife Wong Siew-fung, 47, and 16-year-old daughter Lily Khaw Li-ling, who both died of carbon monoxide poisoning in their car on May 22, 2015.

-->Shara is of Hebrew and English origin, and its meaning is "princess; a fertile plain". Shara is an alternate spelling of Sarah (Hebrew).

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Saturday 1 September 2018

Edit Choi 2115 Notable Name of the Day

Edit Choi Ho-pan, V068xxx, Notice of Bankruptcy Order in the High Court of the HKSAR Court of First Instance, In Bankruptcy Proceedings No. 2150 of 2018, Hong Kong (22 June 2018)

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