December 1998

Contents

From the editor

Disneyland is junk food

Answerman

"Which politician do you find most charming?"

Features

Art as a commodity
CD megastores and independent CD stores are quite different in their way of doing business. The story focuses on how they survive and make profit in a competing market. Besides CD stores, record companies are trying their best to promote foreign music by introducing overseas singers to Hong Kong despite encountering great difficulties.

Racing with time
Working in emergency rooms seem to be very exciting as shown on TV programmes Healing Hands and ER. Is this really the case? Emergency room doctors and nurses share their views of working in emergency room in the story.

Social Issues

Alternative diet
Shops selling natural food are gaining popularity in Hong Kong. Whether this kind of food really improve health condition raises doubts. In fact, complaints were received concerning the efficacy of the food.

Be a modern Samaritan
To become A Good Samaritan is not as hard as your think. Volunteers in The Samaritan Befrienders of Hong Kong are taking the steps after The Good Samaritan by listening to depressed callers on a round-the-clock basis.

Guarding kids
Child sexual abuse can affect the growth of children. The ways which can help to protect children from sexual perpetrators are presented.

Education

Mainland students studying at CUHK
Mainland students are allowed to come to HK to receive their tertiary education. Last September, CU admitted 28 of them. These students came from different universities in China, such as Fudan University and Beijing University. Other than being given financial support, these students could also seek advice from mentors.

Alternative schools
This story introduces the teaching aims, curriculum, its difference between grammar, technical, and pre-vocation schools and its advantages and disadvantages to students...

Photo Features

Bazaar fot charity
The Sedan Chair Race and Bazaar launched by the Matilda Hospital invited companies such as the Hong Kong Bank and the Coca-Cola Company Limited participate in the Sedan Chair Race. The aim of the activity is to raise fund for the Matilda Hospital.

Jump and hit!
The International Beach Volleyball championship was held on 18 October at Kwai Ching football field. That day, many local and other Asian couple players showed their cooperation and spirit. It ended in joy and friendship.

Culture & Recreation

Art on Skin
Beauty + Pain + Style + Art + Blood + Skills --> Tattooing + Piercing

Bands Striving for their Own Sound
Noisy?
Naughty?
Nasty?
Local independent bands strive to show that they are more than these!

Specialised commercial bookstores
P.O.V., Page One, Rhythm Music House and New Age Shop are commonly generalized as specialized commercial bookstores’. While renowned for their unique establishment and a provision of quality books, these bookstores aim at conveying their respective cultures and values. How much have you been benefited from them?

Channels

13th Asian Games -- Wharf Cable only
Wharf Cable TV owns the exclusive right to broadcast this year's Asian games. Viewers and other TV stations express discontent at the domination of the international sports events and other programmes by a narrow-caster.

Live soccer -- taken off the screen
The Hong Kong Football Association decided in August this year that live TV coverage of local soccer matches would no longer be available. The objective of this policy was to raise the attendance rate of matches. This article evaluates its effect and how soccer fans and team coaches response to it.

Science

When fingerprint means identity
Everyone has unique biometrics such as fingerprint and voice. With an advance technology called biometric verification, one can now throw away the identity card because biometrics show whom you are. However, despite its convenience, it is not popular among the local security industry.

Road to high-tech -- the Hong Kong Science Park
A science park was proposed to build in Tai Po. This was one of the government’s gigantic investments on advanced technology. This piece brings in different voices on the possibility of development of high technology in Hong Kong.

Celebrity Corner

Karen Mok: Listen to what I say
Singer -- actress Karen Mok Man Wai has something to say: her childhood, adolescence, career, life motto and many more.