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Tony Henderson

Tony Henderson is a freelance writer working in Hong Kong, since 1980, and previously Japan, for seven years following two years in Mauritius after a year in Libya. Long time participant in the Humanist Movement and spokesman for Universal Humanism in Hong Kong. Also, Pressenza Hong Kong Bureau Chief.

Don’t buy flowers for us, buy bikes for poorer kids…

Bikes from Heaven Don’t buy flowers for us, buy bikes for poorer kids… This was the admonition prior to Jacky Andrews funereal from the Andrews family, and Jacky indeed was an ordinary – well, you know, no Nobel Prize or…

Solar powered flat-pack emergency shelters from IKEA

IKEA Unveils Solar-Powered Flat Pack Shelters for Easily Deployable Emergency Housing – writes Lori Zimmer for Inhabitat. “IKEA has just turned its flat pack sensibilities from the urban apartment to the global village by unveiling a comfortable, solar-powered shelter that…

Iran’s invisible opportunity

Amory B. Lovins, a physicist and ex-Oxford don, is co-founder and chief scientist of the USA’s Rocky Mountain Institute, an independent, entrepreneurial, nonprofit think-and-do institution. Lovins has written a worthy if rather long article titled: “Iran’s invisible opportunity”, here we…

Occupy Movement spreads its wings

September 28, 2015, and the first anniversary of the Umbrella Movement protests, which began on Sept. 28, 2014, and lasted for 79 days, was ‘not celebrated’ in Hong Kong; “There is nothing to celebrate,” said activist Edith Chung – though…

Jammu & Kashmir: healthy bilateral communications essential

Pressenza speaks with our own correspondent on the Jammu side of the Jammu-Kashmir region, Shilpa Thakur, who gained an honourable mention at the Ashok Sodhi Memorials Awards for the best photography 2015, organised by the Press Club of Jammu. We…

Nepal – fresh activities of the Humanist Movement

A women’s Humanist Movement group has been formed in Panauti, Nepal, that has launched a 19-point concept paper that is still under development, though the committee has already been set up. They are now organizing monthly meetings and will detail…

Stop pussyfooting around Hong Kong, bite the bullet!

Hong Kong’s Chief Executive (CE) Leung Chun-ying is under fire from all quarters of the democratic front following a Beijing official’s ‘controversial’ remarks. Central government liaison office director Zhang Xiaoming, who said this past Saturday that the chief executive was…

Miss Hong Kong: “No place to sleep, how can you dream?”

That’s correct, but the issue here was not the refugees from the Middle East and Africa, it was young people in Hong Kong and the speaker, newly voted into the role of Miss Hong Kong of 2015, Louisa Mak Ming-sze. Her…

Japanese opposition parties and people protest in Tokyo

August 30, 2015 in the afternoon, Tokyo Japan, 120,000 people held a protest rally against the security bill. Shouting slogans: “fascists intolerable!” “Abe step down!” “Abandon Security Act!” This was the largest rally held in Japan recently, with the largest…

Think about all the Syrian refugees and think what makes you British?

Tat Wa Lay Facebook It’s 1984 and my mother arrives in the UK with 89 other Vietnamese refugees known as the “boat people”. With just the cloths on her back and her four children, she’s confronted with the local people…

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