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Hong Kongers, myself included, love to affect a certain expertise when it comes to feng shui. Because I am otherwise a materialist (as in believing only in physical matter, not as in bling), it has always been self-contradictory of me to discourse on the Chinese system of geomancy and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Feng Shui Is Being Discredited in Hong Kong | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

The matter of Chinachem Charitable Foundation Ltd v. Chan Chun-chuen was heard at Hong Kong's Court of First Instance during the summer, and judgment is expected by year's end. The synopsis is this: upon the death, at 69, of billionairess Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum (a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Feng Shui Is Being Discredited in Hong Kong | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

The public shaming of feng shui hasn't stopped at that. In October, the property developer Henderson Land was derided for assigning whimsical numbers to the top levels of a luxury apartment building in order to make them accord with local numerology, which holds that 6 and 8 are auspicious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Feng Shui Is Being Discredited in Hong Kong | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

These are, of course, impious assertions to make in a place with some of the most marvelous feng shui ever bestowed. Because its harbor is shaped like a carp - a fish symbolizing prosperity - Hong Kong is thought to be the font of enormous bounty. Sinuous dragons make their abodes in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Feng Shui Is Being Discredited in Hong Kong | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

Saving Our Forests Re "Keep the Jungle Alive" [Nov. 30]: Centuries ago Lord Buddha exhorted every individual to plant and nurture at least five trees in one's lifetime. However, governments should focus on systematic and sustainable tree plantation and conservation programs. Varieties that are indigenous, fruit bearing, oxygen enriching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

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