Mixed posts from Hong Kong
Two of the bloggers I follow on a daily basis are in Hong Kong today. Guardian’s Roy Greenslade on his way to Australia and Australian Mark Fletcher visiting a Hong Kong gift fair.
Fletcher’s blog Australian Newsagency Blog reported on the good quality of Hong Kong’s latest addition to the free newspaper market, the formerly paid Standard. According to Flecher, the quality is so good that “I wouldn’t like to see a free newspaper like this in Australia.”
Greenslade is commenting on the elderly people that make a living by gathering discarded papers on the street. The price of old paper is high enough to make some money of it. Advertisers should be less pleased of course because some papers end up at the recycling center without ever being opened.