Word: hong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HONG KONG (140,000 Christians, 45,000 Protestants). This is the last citadel of British colonialism, and "for those who would understand what is behind the rest of Asia's anticolonial frenzy. Hong Kong is the place to get a bellyful of the original offense." But the British have turned generously to help the 667,000 refugees from Communist China. So have the Christian missions from the U.S.. "healing, counseling, running schools, staffing nurseries, opening clinics, building family centers." The most valuable mission activity in terms of the future, says Gill, is being done on university campuses supported...
...over New York than any other community. "The enemy is fighting as we have never seen him fight before. We are wrestling with spiritual forces that can only be overcome by the power of God in answer to the prayers of God's people." Graham cites groups in Hong Kong, India and London who are praying for the New York crusade every day. Then he tells readers of Christian Life how they can help...
Dear TIME:Reader: As President Ramon Magsaysay paid a whirlwind visit to the Philippine province of Tarlac last week (see "Smiles in the Barrios" in FOREIGN NEWS), Correspondent James Bell, TIME'S new Hong Kong bureau chief, followed him in and out of a dust-coated Chrysler at each town and village. Alternately mauled, hugged, or decked in flowers by cheering crowds, Bell looked about him with more than a reporter's normal curiosity. Kansas-born, he had spent his formative years and attended high school (Brent School, class of '36) in the islands, where his father...
...sales rose from half a million at year's beginning to nearly 2,000,000 at year's end, slicing into the markets of the edgy U.S. garment industry. Japan tried "voluntary" export curbs to solve the problem. But many Japanese exporters bypassed them by shipping to Hong Kong and "exporting" from there...
...Dark Heroine. Last week, in the tortured and tormented confessions of a would-be suicide, reprinted on the front pages of Hong Kong's leading newspapers, the question was answered. The girl who captured the handsome hero was a dark and devious adventuress, as full of schemes and subterfuge as a Communist cell. Pert, pretty and dynamic, Hung Hsien-nu was the reigning queen of the Hong Kong opera, with a score of movie credits to her name as well. The protegee and wife of a former Hong Kong movie star whose Red sympathies had carried him back...