KRAFTWERK IS COMING

TO HONG KONG (1ST TIME EVER) - DECEMBER 5TH - THIS IS A FRIDAY - HKD 680 ALL STANDING.
IT IS SAID COMPLETE NEW SHOW SET UP - SEE YOU THERE.
GET SOME IDEA WHAT THAT MEANS - SEE HERE (THIS IS ALREADY SOME YEARS OLD):

PERFECT ! NOW EVERYTHING CAN BE BLAMED ON THE "FINANCIAL CRISIS".....

The recent closures of factories of SMART UNION & BEP. The closure of the TAI LIN household appliances - is all because of the "worldwide financial crisis" ?
Believe it or not you fools !
What a fool believes......DOOBIE BROTHERS:

CHINA'S APEC DUTIES

it seems thousands of approvals for APEC card's are pending from China - they are very far behind. Hurry up guys - business will not get better the next year .....Here something for the brain - electronic sounds we like ...right ?

33 COUNTRIES STILL ON THE LIST

It seems no chance for below passport holders to apply Visa either in HK, Macao or even on the mainland - still need to apply in their "home-country" as long as not being a permanent Hong KOng resident:
Afghanistan / Algeria / Bangladesh / Congo / Egypt / Gambia / Ghana / Guinea / India / Indonesia / Iran / Iraq / Kaiakhstan / Kirghiziani / Libya / Malaysia / Mali / Mauritania / Monaco / Nepal / Nigeria / Pakistan / Philippines / Saudi Arabia / Sierra Leone / South Africa / Sri Lanka / Sudan / Syrian / Tajikistan / Tunisia / Turkey / Uzbekistan
(Monaco should be Marrokko, by the way)

For this passport holders the nonsense is not over ! Probably some of this countries previous visa holders have also abused the visa law - including overstaying, running un-registered business (Guangzhou's black community ........) and whatever. It seems there is a new "spirit" in China government to clean out some of the loop-holes which made it quite easy to conduct business without any registration, without tax payments and without legal resident registration. Here something special:

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BYE BYE

THIS IS THE TIME NOW TO SAY GOOD-BYE TO ALL OF YOU !
THE VISA NONSENSE IS OVER - CHEERS AND SEE YOU SOMEWHERE ELSE AGAIN ....ENJOY SOME NICE MUSIC - STEVIE, CHRISTINE, LINDSAY, MICK + JOHN PLAYING SARA...................

YOU WANT MORE ?

Here is CAN with I WANT MORE - a "german krautrock classics" - enjoy:

Visa categories and the requirements of supporting documents

copy from the "Commissioners Office of the Foregn Ministry of the PRC in the HK SAR":
quote
2008-09-24 -
1. L visa (for tourism or visiting relative)
I--For tourism:
Under some circumstances, the applicants may be required to provide financial proof, a copy of Chinese hotel booking and return flight ticke.
For applicants who are going to Tibet, an entry permit issued by Tibetan Tourist Bureau is required. (Fax number of Tibetan Tourist Bureau: 0086-891-6834632; Telephone number:0086-891-6834313).
II--For visiting relative in China
Proof of kinship is required, but the applicants who were born in China (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) as shown in the passport are exempt from this proof.
2. F visa for business and visit
(1) Visa Notification Form, or an letter issued by the company he/she is employed and the registration license of this company, or an invitation letter from the mainland company ant the registration license of this company.
(2) Under some circumstances, the applicants may be required to provide financial proof, a copy of Chinese hotel booking and return flight ticket booking.
unquote
All this is still very "polluted information", as already since more than 1 week travel agencies in HK are very busy with applying for multiple F - 6 or 12 months visas (at least for perm HK ID card holders).
Nevermind - the guy updateing this page is maybe "over-worked".
Here the full link:
http://www.fmcoprc.gov.hk/eng/zgqz/qzlb/

How to read a passport.......

seems quite a difficult action for some of the so-called POLICE CADETS at LoWu border.
Today crossing with the 2nd entry ...and a lot of confusion for the girl behind the counter as she could'nt find the chop for the 1st entry (too many chops in this passport) ..So she pressed the "Secret button" to the left in her cubicle and the "Supervisor" appeared and ran away with my passport (what I not really liked too much) - 10 minutes waiting and then he came back with very broken english (but very polite - really) said something like sorry and asked me to confirm that this is my second entry only with this visa. Way back in the evening the girl together with her "supervisor" studied my passport more than 5 minutes - mamma mia - what is so difficult now ?
Did you found out already only 1 post appearing on the blog - all others you need to find in the "blog archive" (right - side down.....). Here something interesting from THE SHAMEN (this doesnt represent this BLOGS AUTHORS opinion - but somehow it is quite interesting) - as far I remember somewhat mid to late 80's / early 90's - enjoy and have a nice weekend:

And here a real SHAMEN classics EBENEEZER GOODE - it is old but its goode:

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