Word: chee
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...come right out and say it, but Chee Soon Juan must have known all along he would lose. And by Sunday morning it was official: the leader of Singapore's leading opposition party had been beaten. In fact, opposition politicians had won just 2 seats in the 84-seat Singaporean Parliament. Why then did Chee go through what he knew from personal experience would be a harrowing election campaign, one that would bring wounding personal attacks and possibly yet another crippling defamation suit? "Yes, the situation is very unfavorable to us, but you've got to keep chipping away...
...CHEE SOON JUAN The Singapore Democratic Party chief was jailed twice in 1999 after refusing to pay $2,200 in fines for holding public rallies without a permit. In 1993, he paid $300,000 in libel damages and costs in relation to comments he made following his dismissal from a university teaching post...
...certainly gave it his best shot this time around. Last Friday, the final day of campaigning, Chee was practically sprinting through a shopping and dining area in his constituency, handing out pamphlets and grabbing handshakes from bemused residents, many of whom barely had time to register his face and blurted message, "Vote for us tomorrow, please," before he moved on. In the city-state, where the opposition has to contend with a monolithically progovernment media, this kind of flesh pressing is especially critical. But there was also something more, something almost frantic about the way Chee hurried though the hawker...
...Falun Gong? The territory's leaders are sending out mixed signals. Last week, Sir Donald Tsang, head of Hong Kong's civil service, appeared to assert that the government would not outlaw the group. But his words were carefully ambiguous. And just days earlier, his boss, Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, stood up before the territory's Legislative Council and declared: "There is no doubt Falun Gong is an evil cult." That statement has been broadly interpreted as a precursor for a tough anticult bill. And if such a bill is submitted, the legislature, packed with people who follow Beijing...
...APPOINTED. DONALD TSANG, 56, as Chief Secretary of Hong Kong's civil service, replacing Anson Chan, a vocal defender of the territory's autonomy who announced her resignation a month ago because of alleged differences with Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa over the pace of democratic development; in Hong Kong. The appointment was made by Tung with the approval of the Chinese government. Although Tung has been criticized for subservience to Beijing, the choice of Tsang, Financial Secretary since 1995, is seen as a nod to continuity...