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...absent outside interference. Brooke points to a similar, and ineffective, halt to government land sales in 1998 as evidence that the new policy is misguided. Indeed, past attempts to micro-manage the market seem to have done more harm than good. In 1997, Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa embarked on a 10-year plan designed to increase home ownership in Hong Kong. But the subsidized housing scheme ran straight into the teeth of an economic recession, causing home prices to fall more steeply...
Some companies, such as Blue Cross of California, have shied away from the cross-border market. Spokesman Michael Chee says the company prefers to focus ondeveloping low-cost care in the U.S. Aetna teamed upbriefly with a Mexican insurer to market a cross-border HMO a few years ago but bowed out in part because oflower-than-expected enrollment...
...SENTENCED. CHEE SOON JUAN, 40, leader of Singapore's Democratic Party; to five weeks in prison after refusing to pay a fine for holding a May 1 rally without a police permit; in Singapore. Chee's application for a permit had been rejected on the grounds that the rally would threaten law and order. It is the third trip to jail for Chee, who Singapore's founder Lee Kuan Yew has called a "congenital liar" and a "political gangster...
...long ago, a newspaper quoted you as describing Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-Hwa and other leaders as "toadying." Is that how you feel? I told the reporter that I'm very unhappy. I said there are people who are doing stupid things to please Beijing, and maybe Beijing never told them to do such things. I'm not blaming Beijing, I'm not blaming Mr. Tung, I'm blaming these people...
...China and Tung Chee-hwa have kept meticulously to the letter of the agreements between London and Beijing. With a system that permits no effective opposition, why should they do otherwise? Are Washington and London, united with China in the fight on terror, going to nitpick over Article...