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...York Stock Exchange, one on the NASDAQ. Other blue chips trade in Hong Kong as H shares or red chips, including telecom operators China Mobile and China Unicom. Among stocks trading in Hong Kong, Theleen especially likes the well-run Hong Kong Shanghai Bank and Li Fung, a service firm helping foreign businesses set up in China...
...Johnnie To Kei-fung is too busy to worry about being too busy. This summer, like last summer, he produced and co-directed two hit movies. The first, in June, was the comedy Love on a Diet, a follow-up to his 2000 smash Needing You..., both starring Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng; it grossed a robust $5 million. Soon after, he opened the gun drama Fulltime Killer, with Lau as a preening, delirious assassin; so far, the film has taken in $3 million. With his creative partner, Wai Ka-fai, To runs Hong Kong's premier indie production company...
Watching Falun Gong adherents pray, it's hard to see them as a threat. At the twice-weekly meeting in Kitty Fung's tiny Wanchai apartment, bodies are crammed everywhere. Most of those present keep their heads buried in copies of Zhuan Falun, the Falun Gong bible. Chanting the phrases together, they remain oblivious to anyone entering or leaving the room...
...civic welfare of 59,000 residents should so slavishly follow an ancient foreign tradition? Lansdell, 51, says he dares not do otherwise. The city faced a $4.7 million budget deficit back in 1998 when Lansdell, then acting manager, agreed in desperation to try a feng shui (pronounced fung shway) practitioner. It could be coincidence, but within three weeks of her visit, Lansdell was promoted to full-time manager of Gardena, whose economy then got a boost when Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt bought a bankrupt casino there. This month Lansdell expects Gardena's deficit to decrease to $2.9 million...
...team boasted an undefeated record the next year, and Alex and Jennifer Fung '97 won the first of two National 10-dance Championships...