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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While saying that he was "almost in 100 per cent agreement" with Cheong, he declared. "There is every indication that this war is coming to be a racial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: International Seminar | 8/5/1965 | See Source »

pared for a long and uphill struggle," Cheong declared, adding that the bombings of North Vietnam "will have to continue until they are discussed with Hanol." He suggested "some sort of quid pro quo" be arranged, with America calling a halt to the bombings if North Vietnamese regulars return to the North...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: International Seminar | 8/5/1965 | See Source »

Also: Hilton Cheong Lean of Hong Kong, chairman of the Human Rights Commission of Hong Kong: Rafael do Tagle of the Philippines, business editor of the Manilla Chronicle: and Yoshiyuki Tsurumal of Japan, program officer of the International House of Japan. The talk will be at p.m. in Burr...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 5 Will Report On Vietnam | 8/2/1965 | See Source »

...missed the biggest story out there in Hong Kong. True, Cheong Sam skirts and shopping infuse the tourist with excitement, but what about the building of the housing estate blocks that are taking 1,000,000 refugees out of hillside squatter shacks and changing the whole face of the British colony? Any tourist who has experienced the giving away of 1,000 bags of noodles to hungry, screaming Chinese children will jet away with the most intoxicating memory for life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 12, 1960 | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

...short ride by Star ferry across the harbor from Kowloon to Hong Kong introduces tourists to a popular local pastime: watching Hong Kong girls, wearing cheong-san dresses slit to the thigh, cope with the wind. The first impression of Hong Kong itself is of noise: the staccato of pneumatic drills, thump of pile drivers, cries of hawkers, click of mah-jongg tiles behind shuttered doors, the shouts of coolies dancing under the weight of bamboo shoulder poles. Brass bands sound funeral dirges in the narrow streets; radios whine the cacophony of Cantonese music; the rataplan of $1,000 worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONG KONG: The Fragrant Harbor | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

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