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Gosh, we really have missed the antics of Sarah Palin ever since she stepped down from her post as Governor earlier this year. But we're holding out against all odds for a 2012 presidential run: can you imagine all the sound bytes? In any case, Sarah was in Hong Kong yesterday for her first commercial speaking engagement, a keynote address at the CLSA Investors' Forum. And to say the least, it was key-noteworthy.

And that's news because every thing she does is news, or something. The ex-Alaskan Gov., ex-VP hopeful will be heading to The H.K. for her first commercial speaking engagement, a keynote address at the CLSA Investors' Forum on September 23. She joins the ranks of "notable luminaries who often address topics that go beyond traditional finance such as geopolitics," according to CLSA. We'd make a Palin-related joke, but this news came out last night and we're pretty sure everything you could poke fun at about this woman - "I can see Taiwan from my house," "Drill, Beijing, Drill," "Only lead fish go with the flow," "The names of my children are ridiculous (oh wait, that's not a joke)" - has probably been done already. So yeah, she'll be in Hong Kong. What are you gonna do about it? Source: Huffington Post

Edison Chen was narrowly beaten by Barack Obama for "Person of the Year 2008" in Radio Television Hong Kong's poll. The public was "cordially invited to vote for the most outstanding personality of the year at RTHK or by calling in during the program "Backchat". The results of the poll were announced on Radio 3, on Friday, January 2nd. The RTHK nominees were as follows:

In the latest Google Zeitgeist rankings which aggregates billions of search queries and ranks top search queries around the world, Edison Chen and Sarah Palin took top honours in China and the world respectively. The Beijing 2008 Olympics would have been the fastest rising search term hands down but was edged out by Edison Chen in the China category, and Sarah Palin in the Global category.