Podcasts about fragrant harbour

Brainfood On Tour - Hiring in Hong Kong in 2024 & Beyond   I am in Hong Kong at least once every year (hi Ma) but have never done a focused show on the recruitment and job market in the Fragrant Harbour! Huge amounts of change going in HK, as elsewhere - how is the recruitment market changing and what are the prospects for the future?   - State of Hiring in Hong Kong - Demographics and population - what is the working age population? - Tech & Startup, viable sectors in HK? - Relationship with Shenzen & Guangdong - Greater Bay Area, anything happening here? - Financial & Legal services - HK still a gateway to the Western world? - Crypto and Bitcoin is a possible future for HK economy? - Hospitality and Tourism - can it survive competition with rising hotspots Thailand, Vietnam and in the Mainland? - Language: Cantonese, Hakka, Mandarin and English     All this and more on Brainfood Live On Air.   We're with Tak Lo, Founder (Kedoom Technologies), Mat Gollop, MD (Connected People), Andrew Ladommatos, Founder (Aureum Partners), Rita Tsang, Team Manager, BCG Group) & friends & friends. We're on Friday 18th October, 10am HKT Time     Follow the channel here (recommended) and click on the green button to register for this show.

Mun Hom Tham from UOB Kay Hian shares what's in store for Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index this year. Image Credit: Shutterstock.com

On this episode, I spoke to the religious and creative, Kaith Chan. We talked about Britain handing back Hong Kong to China, his mom's mistake resulting to teachers calling him "shampoo", how he got his name, being proud to be Chinese-Canadian, his outlook on being a "model minority", and his relationships with white girls that caused his parents' panic.  You can find it on @Itunes, @Spotify, @Stitcher, @GooglePodcast, @youtube, or https://redcircle.com/shows/an-immigrants-life, and however you get your podcast, and for more information, follow my Facebook & Instagram pages: @animmigrantslife

Kia ora,Welcome to Monday's Economy Watch where we follow the economic events and trends that affect New Zealand.I'm David Chaston and this is the International edition from Interest.co.nz.Today we lead with news Hong Kong's unique free status hangs in the balance today.But first up today, the OECD sees nothing but red ahead. It said the world's major economies will see their debt-to-GDP ratio rise to near 140% and will add US$17 tln in new debt to their public obligations as sharply declining tax revenues come when emergency borrowing zooms higher.Two weekend events illustrate the trouble. Hertz declared bankruptcy, and freight-forwarder Kuehne+Nagel said it will cut more than 20,000 jobs. And then there was a uniquely American coronavirus response: mass firings via Zoom by WeightWatchers.Today's focus is shifting to Hong Kong where Beijing is cracking down with a new security law. That will likely draw an American response by revoking the territory's "special status" under US law, a move that would have far-reaching trade and investment implications. A rapid de-camp to Singapore is the most likely result, one that might effectively weaken China's "Greater Bay Area" initiative. It also drew thousands on to the streets in protest, this time met with Beijing-style aggressive police tactics. Media reporting the protests are facing Beijing's heavy hand.The Hong Kong stock market closed -5.6% lower on Friday on the news. Shanghai took an almost -2% tumble too. Interestingly, the Singapore market got no bounce, also down by -2.1% yesterday. Messy separations help nobody, it seems.And China is no longer saying its efforts to unify Taiwan will be 'peaceful'.However, it looks like China is backing away from "iron ore inspections" that the Australian's were taking as a signal of China's displeasure with them. The sigh of Aussie relief masks the rising restrictions on Aussie agricultural exports to China.And, as expected, China isn't setting a GDP growth target this year.But it is rolling out more huge stimulus support. An extra NZ$650 bln will be delivered to local governments with specific instructions that the funds be spent on bolstering employment, upholding basic living standards and supporting private companies, through reductions in rental costs and subsidies for consumption. It will cut taxes and fees by NZ$800 bln. Local governments will raise vast amounts of new debt. They have already raised NZ$325 bln of pandemic related bonds. Now they are being told to raise another NZ$1.2 tln in special-purpose bonds, a level almost double what they raised last year which itself seemed eye-watering back then.In Japan, they have just rolled out a new NZ$1 tln plan to bolster struggling businesses. Commercial banks are set to receive a credit guarantee of up to 100% on zero-interest, no-security loans to small and medium-sized businesses hit by the pandemic, and backed by their central bank who will lend the banks the necessary funds.And Japan is about to lift quarantine restrictions in Tokyo and some other parts of Japan as the number of new cases there dives to near-zero.In a move that took markets by surprise, the Reserve Bank of India cut their benchmark repo rate by -40 basis points to 4.0%, the second cut this year. India is battling a huge surge in unemployment arising from the pandemic. More than 120 mln workers, most of them small traders and daily wage earners, lost jobs in April as economic activity all but ceased after a nationwide lockdown.In Europe, their car industry is facing mounting job losses. The French Government warned Renault could disappear if it didn't get help soon. And Nissan was considering 20,000 cuts, with many in Europe. And an Indian-owned British car maker is on its knees.It's coming up to the long Memorial Day weekend in the US, so markets will close until Wednesday our time.In Australia, there has been an arithmetic error of humourously large proportions - AU$60 bln. A "significant error" in the JobKeeper application form meant that instead of supporting 6.5 mln workers and costing AU$130 bln over six months, that job support program is now expected to support 3.5 mln people and cost AU$70 bln.The latest compilation of Covid-19 data is here. The global tally is now 5,360,800 and up +192,000 from this time Saturday, which is rising at a faster pace than recently. "Opening up" isn't helping.Now, just over 30% of all cases globally are in the US, which is up +43,000 since this time Saturday to 1,633,000. This is an unchanged rate of increase. US deaths are now exceed 97,000. Global deaths now exceed 344,000. Canada infection levels are now higher than China's. Brazil is now the second highest infected nation, passing Russia, but both are experiencing surges. The UK surge isn't abating either and it now has three times as many cases as China.In Australia, there are now 7109 cases (+13 since Saturday), 102 deaths (+1) and a recovery rate of just over 91% (unchanged). 36 people are in hospital there (-6) with 5 in ICU (unchanged). There are now 501 active cases in Australia (-9).There were no new local cases again yesterday, leaving the total at 1504 identified as either confirmed (1154) or probable (350). Twenty-one people have died here in total. There is still only one person left in hospital with the disease, and they are not in ICU. Our recovery rate is still just under 97%, with only 27 people known to be still fighting the infection here (-1).The UST 10yr yield will open the week at 0.66% and probably hold this level till Wednesday when Wall Street returns from its Memorial Day holiday weekend.The gold price is little-changed to start the week, down just -US$2 to US$1,733/oz.Oil prices are soft today, but only marginally. The US crude price is now just over US$33/bbl. The international oil price is just over US$35/bbl.The Kiwi dollar is a little firmer rising slightly to 61.1 USc and +160 bps higher than this time last week. On the cross rates we are holding at 93.5 AUc and a +100 bps weekly gain. Against the euro we are also holding at 56 euro cents. That means our TWI-5 is now at 67.1 but up +2.2% for the week.Bitcoin is opening the week softer, down -2.8% to US$8,939 since where we left it on Saturday, and down -7.7% over the past week.You can find links to the articles mentioned today in our show notes.Get more news affecting the economy in New Zealand from interest.co.nz.Tell your friends and email us a review - we welcome feedback.

A thorough examination of Chris Froome's latest transfer gossip, plus Daniel Mangeas and enough literature to last a lockdown or two, as David and Ned delve into their bookshelves. Books Ned talks about:Maillot Noir. Published by Goater Noir.Tell Them of Battles, Kings and Elephants, by Mathias Enard.Blindness, by José Saramago.How Late It Was, How Late, by James Kelman.The Bridge Over The Drina, by Ivo Andrić.Colombia es Pasión, by Matt Rendell.Books David talks about:The Memory Palace, by Mira Bartok.Bicycle Road Racing: The Complete Program for Training and Competition, by Eddy Borysewicz.Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy.Fragrant Harbour, by John Lanchester.Planet of the Blind, by Stephen Kuuisto.Find Ned's stuff here.Find David's stuff here.

Jayni is a drummer and promoter from Singapore but she used to live in Brisbane and while she was there she ran a really great series of gigs called Aether Sessions and played in a few different local bands. Recently she moved back to Singapore and she has started organising Aether Sessions shows there, and she's also started playing drums in a post-rock band called O Deer. When we recorded this interview they were still getting ready to play their first show, but since then I think they've played a couple. I never met Jayni when she was in Brisbane even though I went to a few of her shows, but we did meet for the first time last year when my band Leavings was on tour in Singapore. Then, last December, I was on tour in Singapore again and I thought it would be interesting to talk to her about what it's like to organise DIY gigs in Singapore and how it compares to putting on shows in Australia, and also just what it's like to go from being really active in one music scene and then to move to a completely new scene in a completely different country with a different culture. LinksAETHER Sessions on Instagram: instagram.com/aethersessionsAETHER Sessions Facebook: facebook.com/aethersessionsO Deer on Instagram: instagram.com/odeereedoThrough Forest and Field: https://throughforestandfield.bandcamp.comI have a new Anquan record out now, it's called Fragrant Harbour and it's available everywhere now. It's on all the streaming services and bandcamp, and if you go and get it from Bandcamp there's a live set included with the download, which was recorded last year when I played in Hong Kong. Anquan bandcamp: http://anquan.bandcamp.com/Sonic Vortex Vol. 1 (compilation of South-East Asian noise and experimental music): https://mindblasting.wordpress.com/2020/01/25/sonic-vortex-volume-1/Pancawala split (Coffee Faith, Dissonant, BRRR., DJ Miko, Anquan): https://mindblasting.wordpress.com/2020/01/01/pancawala-split/Concrescence Records YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqKkFOv5-FOVTTbl0oojrfw

This immersive poem is written and produced by Amardeep Kaur, and recalls a time of revolt, pain, and sorrow. Barahmah di chitthi Guru Nanak nu / A Letter of Twelve Months to Guru Nanak " sai, my Beloved! Fill me into your red dye You ferried me over the Pacific once Today, I return, to find the ports of Komagata's revolts What a long journey from the Fragrant Harbour, with gifts of agarwood for the coast of Salish peoples When Ghadaries promised to deliver (contd.) " ~~~ Featuring: Amardeep Kaur Amardeep Kaur was born and raised in Hong Kong and presently lives in Toronto. She is a doctoral candidate in Geography at York University and a graduate associate at the York Centre for Asian Research. In 2019, she taught Introduction to Sikhism as a course director at the University of Toronto (Mississauga campus) in the Department of Historical Studies. Amardeep Kaur's work explores diaspora, culture in the city, religious spaces and political movements across the Pacific. At night, she explores artistic creations, walking and training in Chinese martial arts. She has participated in Sidak at Sikh Research Institute in the summer of 2016 and 2017. #Poetry #History #SikhPodcast --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-sikh-cast-sikhri/support

John Lanchester was born in Hamburg in 1962. He has worked as a football reporter, obituary writer, book editor, restaurant critic, and deputy editor of the London Review of Books, where he is a contributing editor. He is a regular contributor to the New Yorker. He has written four novels, The Debt to Pleasure, Mr Phillips and Fragrant Harbour, and Capital, and two works of non-fiction: Family Romance, a memoir; and Whoops!: Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay, about the global financial crisis. His books have won the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Prize, E.M Forster Award, and the Premi Libreter, been longlisted for the Booker Prize, and been translated into twenty-five languages. His latest novel is The Wall. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate another successful year for Equation Festival we have a mix from Hong Kong based DJ and producer, Sunsairé. He runs the labels Fragrant Harbour & Homesick and is working on a new project: 宀 Club Hong Kong. For more information follow @sunsiare, @fragrantharbour

Hong Kong based producer and label chief of Fragrant Harbour chats with us about the art of djing and the obstacles of producing music in the modern day. Phỏng vấn Sunsiare GRAZ: Xin chào các thính giả! Chào mừng các bạn đến với số mới nhất của Color. Chúng ta đang ngồi tại đây cùng với Sunsiare, hay Jeff, đến từ Marseille và hiện đang sống tại Hồng Kông. Anh ấy là một phần của nhóm Cliché. Anh ấy là một kỹ thuật viên, một tay mọt sách, và là một phần của cộng đồng nhạc dance tại đây. Chào mừng ...

Journalist John Lanchester talks about the future of money and tells us all about bitcoin and getting to grips with the language of money. John Lanchester has worked as a football reporter, obituary writer, book editor, restaurant critic, and deputy editor of the London Review of Books, where he is a contributing editor. He is a regular contributor to the New Yorker. He has written four novels, The Debt to Pleasure, Mr Phillips and Fragrant Harbour, and Capital, and two works of non-fiction: Family Romance, a memoir; and Whoops!: Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay, about the global financial crisis. His books have won the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Prize, E.M Forster Award, and the Premi Llibreter, been longlisted for the Booker Prize, and been translated into twenty-five languages. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories