In the wild wild East where established brand names are benchmarks for competitions, there is no shortage of challengers, with confusing identities as seen in these pics.

Name recognition, read at your risk ;-).

No, the pics were not photoshoped.

加薪 jiaxin - augmentation du salaire / salary increase

Dehors du Canada et des États-Unis, plusieurs pays ont observé la fête du travail le 1^er mai. Dans un mauvais temps avec la crise financière, les droits des ouvriers qui ont bâti les économies du monde sont plus importants que jamais.

Unlike Canada and the USA, many countries observed Labour Day on May 1st. Given the bad times with the financial crisis, rights of working class who built the world economies matter more than ever before.

What? on the streets of Shanghai in 2009? No, we did not resurrect Andy to do a replica. This is just another mélange of art + commercialism + globalisation, as seen in a touristy area.

Quoi? On a ressuscité Andy Warhol pour peindre un portrait à nouveau de Mao à Shanghai en 2009? Non, C’est purement un autre exemple de l’art + le commerce + la mondialisation, montré ici dans un coin fréquenté par les touristes.

牛B (adjective) - niu b

niu (noun): ox / boeuf

Il veut dire féroce, puissant, fort, super, etc. - sauf que c’est une expression vulgaire car “b” est un euphémisme d’organe sexuel. Alors, N.B. que vous n’utilisez pas N.B. au travail!

It means awesome, fierce, powerful, etc. - but it’s a vulgar expression since “b” is an euphemism for sex organ. In other words, N.B. that you don’t use N.B. at work!

全家福 (quan jia fu)

Si les trois caractères signifient: portrait de famille, une famille heureuse, etc., ne me demandez pourquoi la vulgarité s’est installé.

Don’t ask me why the profanity came along for the joyride if the three chinese characters translated loosely as happy family or a family portrait.

say hi to the fire hydrant!

fire hydrant in Hong Kong

Some lights were dimmed, but not completely out, on both sides of Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong, one of the most illuminated cities in the world. This has been the metropolis’ first publicly advertised and participated Earth Hour event since its inception in Sydney in 2007.

Profound changes take more than ceremonial gestures. Are there changes in your part of the world for a greener planet?

En mars, on fête la journée intrenationale de la Francophonie partout. À Hong Kong, les dix mots qui allument le thème de cette année sont:
ailleurs, capteur, clair de terre, clic, compatible, désirer, génome,
pérenne, transformer, vision

journée de la francophonie 2009 à Hong Kong

Les activités ne se limitent pas à la lecture ou la poésie. Le documentaire “La Caravane des dix mots Hong Kong” récapitule des soirées de ‘Slam’ ou ’spoken-word’ ainsi que des entrevues, tous en encourgeant la visibilité de la culture francophone parmi le public hongkongais.

How could I not love Tai Po (大埔) district in Hong Kong? It is less densely populated than Kowloon or Hong Kong Island. It boasts the largest park managed by Leisure and Cultural Services Department as well as a rapidly expanding science park. True to the Hong Kong spirit, both “parks” are located on land reclaimed from sea. Speaking of sea, Tai Po also has the world’s first “reservoir in the ocean”, Plover Cove, which has the longest dam in Hong Kong measuring 2km.

Aucune description est nécessaire. Mais où se trouvent …

No description is needed, but where can we find …

ces deux batisses et…
these two buildings and…

la phallique?
the phallic?