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Alex Lo has been a Post columnist since 2012, covering major issues affecting Hong Kong and the rest of China. A journalist for 25 years, he has worked for various publications in Hong Kong and Toronto as a news reporter and editor. He has also lectured in journalism at the University of Hong Kong.
Christopher Cape: Yellow fleets and knotted knickers
1 Apr, 2021 03:19 AM
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Car wreck, Saddle Rd, two years on. Photo / Christopher Cape
Wanganui Midweek
OPINION:
The world is a mess. In this throwaway society humanity seems intent on cluttering the world with junk. In recent international news one of the world s biggest container ships, the 220,000 tonne Ever Given ran aground across the Suez canal, blocking all marine traffic. History repeats itself obviously.
In 1967 hostilities, labelled the Six-Day War, broke out between Egypt and Israel. Egypt scuttled ships, a bridge, sea mines and other assorted paraphernalia in and across the Suez Canal blocking it to shipping. Fifteen international cargo vessels were trapped in those waters, in the Great Bitter Lake and Lake Timsah for eight years between 1967 and 1975 while the adversaries wrestled for supremacy.
Yellow Wiggle Emma Watkins announces engagement during New Zealand tour
5 Apr, 2021 07:26 PM
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Yellow Wiggle Emma Watkins announces engagement during New Zealand tour. Video / The Wiggles
news.com.au
Yellow Wiggle Emma Watkins has just announced she is engaged amid her New Zealand tour with her fellow Wiggles.
The 31-year-old confirmed the news on Instagram on Monday night, posting an image next to musician and Wiggles bandmate Oliver Brian while showing off her engagement ring. When life gets more sparkly, she wrote in the caption.
Watkins confirmed her romance with Brian, who plays the banjo for the group, in December 2019, telling Stellar magazine: Yes, I m in love and I feel very excited to tell you.
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