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Chow and choice at Central

It was 1974 in Hong Kong when a colleague showed me her business making votive candles for Hallmark. I expected a storefront shop with a couple of employees. I was shown instead a highly mechanized production and the operation made her family afford a 20-story building when...
Posted On Oct 10 2014 04:00
, By Jaime R. Vergara

HK SAR China’s SARS

It was the epidemic of 2002-’03 that caught the world in what is now known as SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) that started in the southern part of China, got Hong Kong between a rock and a hard place, and from there, its cosmopolitan reach stretched across the planet....
Posted On Sep 03 2014 04:00
, By Jaime R. Vergara

Letting go of San Francisco

There is nothing in San Francisco that does not tug on my heartstrings. This city was my entry into the NA continent in ’65, and after the melodramatic passage under the Golden Gate Bridge in that August morning, I alighted on Embarcadero from a 20-day cross-Pacific sail from...
Posted On Jul 02 2014 04:01
, By Jaime R. Vergara

The smartphone and I

I’ve been a diehard Apple user since Steve & Steve set up shop at a garage in Cupertino but after a brief fingering of the iPad two years ago, I found it to be of not much use in China at the time. I settled back on the reliable MacBook for my cyberspace requirements,...
Posted On Jun 06 2014 04:00
, By Jaime R. Vergara
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