Word: cheung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Filtered Down. In Hong Kong, taken to court by his wife for not making his $10-a-month support payments. Ng Kin-Cheung complained that he could not afford them because he had a concubine and eight children to support, and bought cigarettes with what money was left, was ordered by the judge to cut down on smoking...
...simplest way to get information about Malaya's Communist guerrillas, decided High Commissioner Sir Gerald Templer, was to pay for it. His idea paid off. Among the top Communists killed through informers: Manap ("The Jap") Jepun, commander of a Communist guerrilla regiment, and Cheung Kit ("The Ape") Ming, Malacca state committeeman of the Communist Party. Rewards of about $25,000 were paid in each case. Last July, a good month for informers, the Malayan government paid out $75,000 in rewards, based on a rate of $825 for a common, or jungle variety Communist. By year...
...Malacca jungle last week, Acting Police Corporal Roslan Bin Haji Mohammed waited three nights for his quarry. Someone had "whispered," i.e., informed, against noisy, hunchbacked Cheung Kit Ming, better known as "the Ape of Malacca." A top Communist guerrilla, a veteran killer and terrorist, Cheung had a $25,000 price on his head. On the third night of the ambush, the Ape appeared and the police corporal shot him dead...
...Cheung Kinman, 19, the annual cross-harbor (1,743 yards) swimming race; at Hong Kong. A record 877 swimmers, ranging in age from 9 to 62, splashed into the harbor before a mob of 30,000 onlookers crammed into junks, sampans and ferries to watch the fun. It was Cheung's fourth victory in the 44-year-old event...
...turned to the acting mayor, a teacher named Cheung Deuk Rim, and asked him who had run things in Pyongyang the last five years. "The Russians," he said simply...