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What's on? A bunch of things if you like Hong Kong history...
1. See a cemetery, support Operation Santa
This Saturday and next (11th & 18th Dec) Paul Harrison (he of the RTHK history show) is giving guided tours of the HK Protestant Cemetery in Happy Valley.
If you've ever tried the "... more places" link over on the left of the page, I bet you've only tried it once. It was just about unuseable.
I'm pleased to say that the recent round of work in the boiler room has made it a lot better. I've just posted up the finished version, so I'll be grateful if you'll try it out and let me know if it works ok: "... more places". (It works fine in Internet Explorer 8, but it's still slower than I'd like. You'll get much better performance if you use FireFox.)
If you're hungry for more about Hong Kong's history, here are the websites I subscribe to - you might like to try some of them too.
Summary: If you have any information related to Hong Kong's War Crimes Trials held in the late 1940s, Ms Suzannah Linton (suzannah.linton@hku.hk) would like to hear from you. She is currently researching this part of Hong Kong's history.
The Crimes
The crimes date back to the World War 2, and the Japanese invasion and occupation of Hong Kong. There are three main groups:
It's hard to make a case for the joys of cemeteries without people looking at you a bit strange, and perhaps edging a bit further away. But let me try, with four reasons that cemeteries deserve your attention: