Tom Spender

Freelance journalist & photographer in Beijing

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Hong Kong salsa videos

April 18th, 2012 · No Comments · China, Rest of Asia

I was recently in Hong Kong, where I managed to catch a couple of parties ahead of the Hong Kong Salsa Festival. Here are a couple of mini-performances – the first is salsa swing, essentially salsa moves to swing music. The second is zouk, which I would really like to try out..

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French entrepreneurs in SE Asia

April 17th, 2012 · No Comments · Rest of Asia

The English word entrepreneur is derived from French and there are plenty of French people out and about starting up companies – including in Asia, as it turns out. Last autumn I translated “On Asia’s new frontier, 40 French entrepreneurs in the East,” a book by Anne Garrigue, a French journalist based in Singapore.

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