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Women’s Rugby Fixtures – 18 January, 2014

Beijing Club, Billion Club and Magnum Club to IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Market

The popular nightspots Beijing Club, Billion Club and Magnum Club are owned by the Magnum Entertainment Group which has announced its flotation on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. If you ever wondered why so many new bars and clubs open here’s a clue, according to the IPO documents the group revenue for 2012-13 was $173million (up from $134million the previous year) returning a pre-tax profit of $34million! The company will trade under the name Magnum Entertainment with the stock code 02080 and is looking to raise between $80-$120million through the sale of 84million shares at an indicative price of between HK$1.0 and HK$1.5 per share.

The HK public offer closes on the 16 January and the final offer price and allotment results will be announced on 22 January. Dealing in the shares will commence on the main board on 23 January. More details on the IPO can be found here http://www.etnet.com.hk/www/eng/stocks/ci_ipo_detail.php?code=02080&type=listing

Women’s Rugby Results – 11 January, 2014

Women’s 15s

HKFC 0-54 Valley Black
@ HK Football Club, Kick-off: 15:00

Tigers 30-0 Tai Po Dragons
@ Kings Park, Kick-off: 18:00

Kowloon 0-71 Gai Wu
@ Shep Kip Mei, Kick-off: 18:00

CWB Phoenix 52-12 HK Scottish
@ So Kon Po, Kick-off: 18:00

Asia Society Food & Culture Festival – 12 January, 2014

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Musical Moments: Unplugged – 22 January, 2014

Musical Moments – Unplugged
When: 8pm, 22 January 2014
Where: Hong Kong City Hall, Concert Hall
How Much: $680, $480, $380, $280 & $180 from URBTIX

Do Flush Toilets Have Politics?

“Without really thinking about it, we have come to assume that a flushing toilet is one of the basic requirements of an urban setting and one of the symbols of an advanced society.” argues Gonçalo Santos who also points out that “It is not clear that dumping excreta into any convenient body of water is the best way to handle local and global sanitation problems. We assume that flushing and forgetting rid us of the problem, when we have only compounded it by moving it to another place.”

In a talk co-presented by The Hong Kong Anthropological Society and The Hong Kong Museum of History and drawing on historical and anthropological research on the origins and the spread of the flush toilet globally, Gonçalo Santos talks about the rise of modern sewerage systems and their impact on society.

Do Flush Toilets Have Politics? Anthropocenic Reflections
When: 7pm, 15 January 2014
Where: Lecture Hall, G/F, Hong Kong Museum of History, 100 Chatham Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
How Much: Free
More info: the talk is in English, more from [email protected]

Music Rocks the Valley – 8 January, 2014

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In a Grain of Rice: Food & Culture for South & Southeast Asia

The Asia Society Hong Kong is holding a food festival on Sunday 12 January, 2014 to explore the cultural significance of food, particularly rice, from a variety of sociocultural anthropological perspectives. Join artists, writers, culinary experts and scholars to explore eating as a social activity which reflects social and personal identity. Using all types of rice – including blue rice – as a starting point, the two-part one day festival will explore food as a conduit bringing cultures together, a collective narrative about place and time, desire, satiety, heritage and changing traditions.

The full day event is split into two sections: a morning panel discussion starting at 10:15am and an afternoon food tasting & cooking demonstrations from 1pm.

The speakers for morning session are:

Tony Cheng, CEO & Founder, Drawing Room Concepts
Sidney Cheung, Chairperson, Department of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Peter Cuong Franklin, Chef/Partner, Chôm Chôm
Rosa Paula “Rochie” Cuevas, Grain Quality and Nutrition Center, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
Michael Leung, Founder & Creative Director, HK Honey
Yoshiko Nakano, Associate Professor, Department of Japanese Studies, University of Hong Kong
Daisy Tam, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Creative Writing Hong Kong Baptist University

While the afternoon cooking demonstrations includes:

Rice tasting with IRRI
Asian street food tasting
Seafood Laksa by Andy Cheng, Lobby Chef of The Peninsula Hong Kong
Hainan chicken rice demonstration by Tony Cheng
Shrimp & pork rice paper roll by Peter Cuong Franklin
Hakka tea cake demonstration by Tsoi Yuen Village residents

In a Grain of Rice: Food & Culture for South & Southeast Asia

When: 12 January, 2014
Morning panel discussions 10:15am – 12:45pm; Afternoon food tasting & cooking demonstrations 1-5pm

Where: Asia Society Hong Kong Center, 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty

How Much: free registration 10am
More Information: http://asiasociety.org/hong-kong/events/grain-rice-food-culture-south-southeast-asia-afternoon-session