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Darwin Chen, chairman, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Hong Kong

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Portsmouth FC Hong Kong Connection

Portsmouth FC is now the second English Premier League club to be financially linked to another Hong Kong businessman, after of course Birmingham City FC.

[Portsmouth FC colours]

Balram Chainrai, a Hong Kong-based businessman of Nepalese extraction, has loaned £15 million to the club, which ensures that all outstanding October wages will be paid to Portsmouth FC’s employees. This has also fueled speculation of a change in ownership of the football club.

Apparently, Chainrai went to KGV (i.e. Hong Kong's King George V School), and has a biomedical science background as well as a British passport. Naturally, the Premier League is seeking further information about Chainrai, although since he is not a director of the club and apparently does not control 30% or more of the club’s shares, Chainrai will not have to pass the Premier League’s fit and proper person test. What other "gems" will the media uncover?

0281 HKSAR Name of the Day

Jolland Chan, lyricist and music producer, Hong Kong

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Kero Kong Wing Yau, student, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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Mono Chan (Dr), lecturer, Department Of Management And Marketing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

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Georgeanna Mok Hoiki, student, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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Hardy S C Wong (Mr), senior technician, Department of Biology and Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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Stand Out Face

The inimitable Ulaca has an interesting post about Olympic swimming champion Rebecca Adlington. Something about her looks being like "someone who's looking at themselves in the back of a spoon".

What’s wrong with telling things like they are? When I first saw Ms Adlington winning at the Beijing Olympics last year, my first thought was that her face looked pretty alien and therefore reminded me of a Star Trek alien called Odo.

I thought she had the appearance of a “face behind a latex mask”.

[Rebecca Adlington with OBE and Star Trek: Deep Space 9 security chief Odo with Quark]

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