Word: hong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...list of war zones was narrowed to five: Northern Ireland; Israel, including the occupied West Bank; Lebanon; Thailand, where survivors of Cambodia's years of terror have fled; and Hong Kong, refuge of thousands of boat people from Viet Nam. Rosenblatt spent a week in each area, meeting with scores of children. They talked...
Maria E. Hellyer Hong Kong...
...arrested at least four Jesuit priests in Shanghai, along with several Roman Catholic laymen. The most prominent of those rounded up in the crackdown is Father Zhu Hongshen (known to Westerners as Vincent Chu), 65, who was released from prison in 1979 after serving 23 years. Church sources in Hong Kong say that the Communist regime has charged him with giving false information to his numerous foreign visitors and with following orders from the Vatican...
...Canton diocese. The ouster came just after Pope John Paul II asserted Tang's Vatican connection by appointing him Archbishop of Canton. Tang's Communist-approved successor in Canton, Bishop Ye Yinyun, has continued to press the battle against the Vatican, accusing visiting priests from Hong Kong of efforts to "spread rumors and disrupt the work of the Chinese church." The new arrests mark an ominous escalation. Outside observers cannot yet assess how far the toughening government attitude will go. But many of those arrested are elderly, and friends fear they would not survive long prison sentences...
Three Cambodian heads gazed nobly at the reader from the glossy cover of Arts of Asia, an elegant and respected bi-monthly published in Hong Kong. The sandstone faces, 900-year-old survivors of the fabled Khmer kingdom of Angkor, had been chosen to set the theme of a recent issue devoted to antique Cambodian art, a high-priced passion among collectors around the world. Few readers knew that the images on the cover had been given new noses and restorative face-lifts by a young Thai artist known simply as Yas. Or that Yas, in his busy, unnamed shop...