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"One Country Two System" is the phrase used to describe Hong Kong's relationship with the Mainland. Within our society we can also see two systems – the ever-increasing division between the rich and the poor.  Nowhere is the more pronounced than in the Special Economic Zone.  Exhibition period 16 January 2009 to 28 February 2009 at Philia, 4 Arbuthnot Road, Central, Hong Kong.

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Real Man’s Magazine For Men’s Men Only

Real Man Magazine launched on online version of their ‘man’s man’ 
periodical this week with a warning that ‘girlie men or the easily offended’ should stay away.

“If you’re not a real man, what you read within our magazine will be so foreign to you, and so outrageous, that you’re liable to fall out of your chair, curl up in the fetal position and start sucking your thumb. Consider yourself warned,” Real Man publisher Franklin Pierce boasted, “I set out to create a magazine for real men, by real men.”

Regular really manly features include ‘The Girlie Men of the Media’ (‘From Man-Crushes to Moisterizing, Women have Nothing on These Wimpy Girlie Guys’) and  an agony uncle offering advice on typical real men problems such as threesome etiquette.

“My boyfriend keeps talking to me about a threesome. I’m not sure what I should do. Please help,” one (presumably female) reader, ‘Sherry from Nashville’, begs.

“Dear Sherry: You know the idea excites you, but you’re afraid your boyfriend will become attracted to the other woman,” Real Man replies.

“The truth is that your boyfriend will actually become more attracted to you. After all, think about it. He has a woman who makes all of his fantasies come true. It’s hard to top that. So stop talking about it and do it already. And tell your boyfriend he owes me a box of cigars,” he adds.

http://www.realmanmag.com (‘Not for girlie men or the easily offended. 
May cause hair growth, increased testosterone and erections lasting longer than four hours. Read at your own risk . . .’)

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Hong Kong’s chic ‘urban lifestyle hotel’, The Fleming, is offering a Valentine's package for two including a romantic candlelit dinner and breakfast at just HK$1,688 from 7-15 February. 

Staying in a premium executive room or deluxe room, guests will enjoy a welcoming bottle of sparkling wine, a floral bouquet, home-made Valentine’s Day cookies, an aroma selection of choice, luxury L’Occitane bath amenities and a selection of romantic DVD movies.

Dinner for two at The Fleming's intimate restaurant Cubix is alone valued at HK$999 and makes the perfect setting for a candlelit dinner for two.

The set dinner starts with an appetizer combination of Serrano ham with white jelly, crab with avocado and King Prawn, followed by a cream of asparagus soup.

A refreshing champagne sorbet introduces main course choices of either grilled beef tenderloin or French duck confit with port wine sauce. A "sweet heart dessert" completes the romantic dinner, with petit fours and coffee or tea.

Along with continental breakfast, late check-out till 3pm is also included, subject to availability, and guests even have complimentary entry to nearby California Fitness.

In addition are complimentary extras that guests enjoy during every stay at The Fleming including complimentary local calls, daily newspaper and both wired and wireless broadband internet access.

The Valentines package is available on a first-come-first-served basis at the award-winning 66-room boutique hotel in Wan Chai and prices are subject to a 10% service charge.

About The Fleming

The Fleming opened two years ago in a quiet side-street in the heart of the Wan Chai business and entertainment district.

It was last year ranked on Condé Nast Traveller’s “Hot List 2007” as one of the world’s best new hotels, and as a finalist of SCMP/Harper’s Bazaar Style Awards Best Boutique Hotel of the Year 2007.

The boutique hotel targets international executives and frequent business travelers with affordable accommodation, up-to-date technology, contemporary facilities and a stylish address. Its key philosophy is exceptionally friendly and attentive personalised service.

It is a member of Sterling Hotels™, a collection of hotels with sterling personality from Preferred Hotel Group™.

To book the Valentine's package, please contact the Reservation Department at (852) 3607 2225.

The Fleming is at:

41 Fleming Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong

Tel: (852) 3607 2288

Fax: (852) 3607 2299

Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

www.thefleming.com.hk

(information provided by the pr company)

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One In Two Women Regret One Night Stands

British scientists who studied the emotional states of men and women after casual sex suggested in September that evolution has made women averse to one night stands, making them value quality over quantity (Metro, UK)

Professor Anne Campbell of Durham University said women would feel happier after casual sex if it was advantageous in evolutionary terms, after a study of 1,743 men and women who’d had one night stands showed that 80% of men felt great afterwards compared to 54% of women (the others reportedly felt ‘used’ and ‘regretful’).

The details emerged as politicians in Ecuador rejected a proposal by Maria Soledad Vela that women should have a legal right to sexual pleasure, with women being allowed to sue their husbands if they fail to perform.

"I think even if my proposal generated laughs and ridicule some parts of society are rethinking what really is a healthy sexual relationship and sexual pleasure,” Mrs Vela told the National Post, after her bill was discarded.

Back in the UK, the Daily Mail reported on another sex study which revealed that two out of three women in clubs agreed to dance with a man after he touched her arm briefly when making his request, reducing to one in three when the same man kept his hands to himself.

“When it comes to catching a woman's eye, little beats a winning smile and a touch on the arm,” the Mail suggested, “Research shows something as simple as a gentle brush of a woman's arm can boost a man's chances in love.”

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Haircut Credit Crunch Crisis

Cropped, edgy haircuts are replacing long flowing hairstyles as a direct result of the credit crunch, according to a report in the Independent On Sunday in July.

 "People enjoy fewer material pleasures in periods of recession, so want more visual pleasures,” Cambridge University cultural economist Susanna
Sallstrom-Matthews told the paper, “And there's more variation among short haircuts than long."

Wild-haired lothario Mr No from Motor was unimpressed, however, telling Skrufff he has absolutely no intention of cutting his hair short, whatever the economic circumstances.

“The last time I chopped all my hair off wasn't much of a good experience, girls stopped chatting me up and boys thought I was a thug. I was so lonely that I got myself a dog that I found in the street- the party was over,” he complained.

The notoriously homophobic (and curiously gay looking) French star said he’s had his hair cut just 14 times since 1998 ‘by this old fag dude from Kentish Town’ though admitted he remains committed to his girlie ‘Camden cut (‘long at the front, short at the back’).

“People treat me generally good because of my hair,” he sniffed, “I get queers buying me drinks in Soho when I shave or girls chatting me up when I don't shave, it's a win-win situation,” he laughed.

Long haired electro Brit Ade Fenton told Skrufff he has his hair cut ‘about once every six weeks at Toni & Guy for £40 a pop; Luckily it's off-settable against my tax bill’ though said like Mr No he has no intention of going short.

“There’s no one particular reason I keep it long, I just like having it,’ the Gary Numan producer explained, “There’s also a lot of fat, bald, ugly or stupid people around and strangely enough, they’re always the first to take the piss so it doesn’t bother me in the slightest.”

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