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...already surrounded by a sense of intrigue and anticipation. Web sites from Hooplah... Nation-a blog dedicated to the New Jersey Nets-to ESPN and SI.com have already speculated endlessly on just how good Yi is, how old he is (Yi says 19, but some teammates from the Guangdong Tigers, the China Basketball Association team he plays for, say he?s 22),and most importantly, just how high he would go in the draft...
...Financial Secretary under Britain's last Hong Kong Governor, Chris Patten, and No. 2 in the administration of Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong's first Chief Executive after the 1997 handover to China. Tung-who came from a Shanghainese family rather than from Hong Kong or its neighboring province, Guangdong-was never wildly popular and proved ineffectual, unable to meet the challenges of either a downturn in the economy or of the SARS epidemic that hit Hong Kong in 2003. In March 2005 Tung stepped down. Tsang became acting Chief Executive, and was confirmed in the job by the Election...
...recently proposed a thorough review of Hong Kong's clean-air standards, as well as cleanup measures costing up to $3.5 billion. But there's relatively little the city can do about its greatest environmental scourge: an estimated 80% of its air pollution drifts in from mainland China's Guangdong province. "You can clean up your own backyard," White says, "but there's still this enormous problem across the river...
When the government of Guangdong province in southern China launched a campaign in 2002 to clean up the Pearl River, officials memorably promised that within three years the water would be "neither black nor stinking," and completely clean by the end of the decade. China's environmental regulators have been inching towards those goals: last month, after a government campaign called Operation Green Sword cracked down on more than 80 companies that were allegedly polluting the waterways around Guangzhou, provincial authorities triumphantly declared the Pearl River safe for swimming...
...Hong Kong government is working relentlessly to improve our environment. Our work in Hong Kong has clear objectives and implementation goals backed by a well-established institutional setup. This setup now extends to Guangdong, where our Chief Executive, Donald Tsang, and the Guangdong Governor, Huang Huahua, oversee a Joint Liaison Group to agree on action plans and monitor progress on the environment for the whole Pearl River Delta region. The target on air quality is to achieve emissions reductions for both sides by 2010. The reduction program has started and 16 state-of-the-art monitoring stations...