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...five years on, the yoke is coming down on the Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China. Last week, the administration of Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa unveiled what was always going to be one of the most sensitive pieces of legislation after the handover: the implementation of Article 23 of the Basic Law, calling for a provision against subversion...
Person of the Week Hong Kong's unpopular Chief Executive TUNG CHEE-HWA bet the farm-and about $2.9 billion-that building a Disney theme park would revive his city's moribund economy. But news that Disney may be planning another park in the former colony's archrival Shanghai has Hong Kongers feeling that Scrooge McDuck has picked their pocket...
...more than 150 countries. INDICTED. JAYSON WILLIAMS, 34, the former NBA forward, for his role in the Feb. 14 fatal shooting of a limousine driver at his estate; in Flemington, New Jersey. If convicted of all the charges levied against him, Williams faces nearly 45 years behind bars. ARRESTED. CHEE SOON JUAN, 39, leader of the Singapore Democratic Party, for attempting to hold a Labor Day rally outside the presidential palace without an official permit; in Singapore. In 2001, Chee was sued by Singapore's Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew for defamation...
HONG KONG New Administration In a move to further distance his administration from the British colonial legacy, Hong Kong's Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa announced a revamp of the civil service. Under the new system three senior secretaries and 11 ministers, political appointees chosen by Tung, will run the territory's government as of July 1, the start of his second five-year term of office...
...soccer-crazy apparatchiks, never foresaw such a late-game loss of face. China was 1-0 up for just five minutes until Hong Kong leveled , only to then depart totally from script by slaying the mighty dragon 4-3 on penalties. How Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa explains this one might determine if the territory continues to get fresh water and receive flu-ridden poultry or whether crossing into the mainland gets harder in the run-up to the "glorious" 2008 Beijing Olympics...