Word: hong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...community know what's going on here," says Min whose pressing concern is with the number of immigrants from southeast Asia who reach Boston in great number and great need. Chinatown has 3500 registered citizens, and Min says the neighborhood continues to swell with newcomers from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Vietnam...
...first seminar, to be offered at PBH in conjunction with Boston's International Rescue Center, will focus on the plight of Vietnamese refugees. They had a very different struggle from the people from Hong Kong and China," Min says. Recalling a time she tutored a group of newly arrived Vietnamese immigrants. Min says she got an unexpected reaction from her students when she brought up the subject of holidays and family gatherings "Half the students started shaking. A lot of them had lost entire families...
...back burner and not go off on new arms sales [to Taiwan] at least so long as Peking continues down the path of 'peacefully resolving' the issue. I think it will be resolved subtly. The Chinese know they need a vital, economically strong Taiwan and Hong Kong too. Both, I think, may eventually end up in some sort of a loose federation or commonwealth with the People's Republic. They don't know exactly how it will work, but it will be very clever...
...distinction between the recognition of sovereignty and its actual exercise. Britain could recognize Peking's claim, fly the Chinese flag alongside the Union Jack over Government House and make other symbolic concessions while maintaining its present administrative control. Noted a British diplomat: "This would replace the fiction that Hong Kong is part of Britain with the fiction that it is part of China." That is as good an idea as any. Indeed, with that characteristic Hong Kong mix of greed and imagination, vendors are already selling T shirts emblazoned with the message "2096 OK" next to a crossed...
Reported by Sandra Burton and Ross H. Munro/ Hong Kong...