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...Hong Kong leader Tung Chee-hwa, meanwhile, drew a line in the sand for speculators, vowing the Hong Kong dollar's 14-year peg to the U.S. dollar is rock solid. He noted that the territory has US$88 billion in foreign reserves to defend its currency...
Yesterday Chan Heng Chee, ambassador of the Republic of Singapore, officially opened the Boston chapter of Contact Singapore, a program to provide job opportunities in the Asian nation...
...Jane get married, or she'll maybe even, you know, have a baby.'" Perry, who is white, was reared in Tonawanda, in upstate New York, in what is still to some extent Seneca country. Making Whitefield a cross-cultural Seneca (novelist Tony Hillerman's Navajo cop Jim Chee, for instance, seems more thoroughly Indian) gave Perry an opportunity to learn more about the local Native American culture. And making her a woman "let me see whether I could write about 51% of the population." He has nearly finished another Whitefield novel, he says, and has three more...
...into Hong Kong just six hours after it regains control over the British colony, sparking fears among democratic activists that a crackdown on civil liberties cannot be far behind. Although the planned deployment would roughly match current British troop levels, today's announcement by the incoming government of Tung Chee-hwa was met with derision by colonial Governor Chris Patten. He warned that the sight of armored cars in the streets on July 1 would send "a very bad signal to Hong Kong and the rest of the world." To reach their barracks on Hong Kong Island, the 21 armored...
...into Hong Kong just six hours after it regains control over the British colony, sparking fears among democratic activists that a crackdown on civil liberties cannot be far behind. Although the planned deployment would roughly match current British troop levels, today's announcement by the incoming government of Tung Chee-hwa was met with derision by colonial Governor Chris Patten. He warned that the sight of armored cars in the streets on July 1 would send "a very bad signal to Hong Kong and the rest of the world." To reach their barracks on Hong Kong Island, the 21 armored...