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Hong Kong's traders, retailers and carvers -- about 3,000 people in all -- are already suffering from the U.S., European and Japanese bans. Kwong Fat Cheung Ivory once employed 100 carvers. Now there are five, all old men, who at night can be found sitting around a table eating a silent dinner of silvery fish, cabbage and egg. Behind them is a wall of ivory tusks in burlap sacks that were destined for Taiwan until that country declared a ban in August. "There is nothing to give them to do," says Eddie Huen, one of five brothers...
However valuable its assets, Jardines has been surpassed in size by two other Hong Kong trading firms -- Cheung Kong and Swire -- and has only recently begun to escape from a typhoon of troubles. The company bought or built many of its Hong Kong buildings in the early 1980s, just before real estate values in the colony took a dive. The collapse resulted in part from nervousness about the approach of 1997, when sovereignty over Hong Kong will pass from Britain to China. Wary of that transfer's consequences, Jardines decided in 1984 to shift its legal headquarters to Bermuda...
...sisters scavenge the effects of recently executed prisoners; negotiating a field laced with land mines, a legacy of the U.S. involvement; gazing unflinchingly as the children's mother impales herself on a hook; tracing the attempt of the children and their benefactor, a Japanese photographer (Lam Chi-cheung), to bribe and fight their way to "freedom," which here is just another word for some place else...
...target of Chun's current and most ambitious crusade is what many Koreans call saba-saba, (or cheung tak). They refer to the endemic tissue of favoritism, cronyism and influence peddling that pervades the country's business and political life. Chun kicked off the drive at the opening of the newly elected National Assembly earlier this month, where he denounced politicians for "engaging in cunning maneuvers to curry favor with voters." He also made sure that members of his Cabinet, including Prime Minister Nam Duck Woo, were the first to take the patriotic pledge...
...groaning land he left behind him, Chan Po-cheung says: "The people will continue to suffer and the regime to survive. First, the people have so little food and clothing that they cannot take to the hills and wage guerrilla war. Second, they have no weapons at all. Even if the cadres are not completely loyal to the government, they are held responsible if there's any trouble. The party's grip still extends from the top down to the lowest level of life in China...