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...result of this election indicates that Hong Kong people are anxious to put forward democracy.' ANSON CHAN, pro-democracy Hong Kong politician, on winning a legislative seat over her Beijing-backed opponent in a Dec. 2 by-election...
...went out there to have a bit of an adventure and got more of an adventure than I bargained for.' GILLIAN GIBBONS, the British teacher who spent more than a week in a Sudan jail for letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad; she returned to Britain on Dec...
Australia's New Leader Why was the Howard government tossed out so decisively? [Dec. 3] All right, the economy was strong, but many Australians were saying, If things are so great, why am I not doing well? Howard was governing for the big end of town, not for all Australians. His industrial-relations policies were foreign to Australians and unwelcome. The scale of his defeat says it all. Neville Lines, Redcliffe, Queensland...
While there might have been plenty of food to go around at the second annual Naked Ladies Brunch on Dec. 2, there was a disturbing lack of skin. Being fond of nudity, (see: cover of the Oct. 31 “Liberty Divided” issue), FM was a little perturbed to find the sartorial bonding focused more on the swapping of clothes than the stripping of them. And while there was a roomful of women, and clothes of all shapes and sizes piled into corners, there wasn’t a bare body in sight. Perhaps it should have...
...rival presidential candidates Lee Hoi Chang, an independent conservative, and Chung Dong Young, who is running for the liberal United New Democratic Party (UNDP), were holding out hope that a damaging prosecutor's report would sink Lee's presidential ambitions. But with two weeks to go before the Dec. 19 election, Lee, 66, now appears to be the only candidate capable of securing a majority. The former Hyundai Engineering and Construction CEO has an approval rating of about 40% in public opinion polls, compared with 18% for Lee Hoi Chang and 15% for Chung. President Roh Moo Hyun, whose five...