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Fredrik Fan Cheung-fung was born in Hong Kong in 1989. He did not witness the events of that restless summer; he never saw hunger strikes or tanks in the streets. But, he says, he inherited the legacy of the attack on student protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square that left hundreds, if not thousands, dead. Twenty years after the crackdown, just shy of his 20th birthday, Fan embarked on a 64-hour fast of his own, setting up camp outside a busy shopping center in Hong Kong's Times Square, some 1,240 miles (2,000 km) from Beijing...
Beantown Bound. Budget travelers between Boston and New York City are already well acquainted with the Fung Wah and Lucky Star "Chinatown" buses. But now there's the LimoLiner - it's not as cheap, but it's a lot more comfy. You'll get a seat aboard a 28-passenger luxury coach, with free Wi-Fi and a steward who offers blankets and pillows. One-way fares for the four-hour ride between the Hilton New York (1335 Avenue of the Americas; 212-586-7000) and the Hilton Boston Back Bay (40 Dalton Street; 617-236-1100) are usually...
...Hong Kong firms are closing up in southern China's industrial heartland. This week, HSBC, the city's largest bank, said it would layoff about 450 people in Hong Kong due to deteriorating business conditions and a poor outlook for next year. Supply chain-management firm Li and Fung, which sources clothing and other consumer goods for major American retailers and brands, announced this month that it was "undertaking a critical review of its cost structure" and could lay off as much as 4% of its local staff by early next year. Merrill Lynch expects local unemployment to reach...
...Fung said that he and ABC News will use the data submitted by voters for his own analysis...
...thing that makes this project different is that it asks people to rate the experience to develop a spectrum from good to bad,” Fung said. “Other [Web sites] are just focusing on the bad, not the comparison. The map helps make comparisons...