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...Informed opinion in both Hong Kong and Beijing holds that China's leaders are frustrated, even angry, with Tung for not addressing the territory's growing disillusionment over his leadership and for now sucking Beijing into the mess. Says political scientist Joseph Cheng of City University of Hong Kong: "The Tung Administration has become a political liability for China." One sign of Beijing's displeasure: pro-China newspapers in the territory have now been allowed to report and comment?albeit in subdued tones?on the shortcomings of Tung and his government. In the past week, too, China's leadership...
...Instead, the supplicants only brought more suffering down on their own heads. When they reached Zhengzhou, several were detained by local police, says a Wenlou resident and AIDS victim who asks to be identified only by his surname, Cheng. Worse, authorities then tried to scare the village's 3,000 residents into silence. On the night of June 22, Cheng says, he and his children awoke to the sound of splitting wood. He says hundreds of police stormed Wenlou, breaking down doors, attacking villagers with cattle prods and dragging some out of their beds and into police cars. The ordeal...
...Hong Kong, radio-show personalities face less overt intimidation, but their broadcast freedom is nevertheless being threatened. Albert Cheng, a bespectacled society icon and radio host, decided last month to take indefinite leave from his ultra-popular talk show, "Teacup in a Storm," after the Broadcast Authority warned his radio station, Commercial Radio, about his on-air conduct. (Wong Yuk-man's program is carried by the same station.) The warning comes at a sensitive time, when the issue of the station's license?due for renewal next year?is still being addressed. The controversy centered on two shows this...
...EXTRADITED. Cheng Chui-ping, 53, Chinese alleged head of a global people-smuggling ring; in Hong Kong to the U.S. Better known by her alias "Big Sister Ping," Cheng is accused of masterminding a 1993 attempt to smuggle 300 Chinese to the U.S. on the ship Golden Venture, which ran aground off New York, killing 10 passengers. The FBI says Cheng has smuggled tens of thousands of Chinese into the U.S. and calls her the "mother of all snakeheads...
...year-old Cheng-San Chen, the man affectionately known by many students as “Louie,” says that he has been giving out free bottles of champagne to his favorite graduating customers for more than 10 years. The free bubbly is designed as a graduation gift, and Chen says that every year he instructs students to hold onto their bounty until the “big graduation day.” Unlike Costello, however, not every recipient of Chen’s complimentary champagne is a regular patron at the store; many students are chosen simply...