Word: hong
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well known commodity in some circles. Aside from Sean Connery and Steve McQueen, Chow is probably the manliest man you would ever want to meet, having collaborated with director John Woo in brutal yet poetic action films like The Killer and Hard Boiled in their native home of Hong Kong. He has not, to date, had much success in acting in English, hence the middling success of his recent forays into the North American market. Having said that, Chow is far from being a one dimensional actor. In his native land of Hong Kong, Chow has performed in comedies...
Traditionalists take comfort in the survival of the independently-owned businesses such as Bartley's, the Hong Kong, Billings & Stover, Cardullo's and Charlie's Kitchen...
...handover treaty to Congress, there was much whining about turning the canal into little more than an expensive toll road. The latest version of this anxiety adds a national security tweak: fear of China. In 1997, the Panamanian government finalized a rich deal with Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., based in Hong Kong, to run two ports near the entrances to the canal. American-owned Bechtel lost out to Hutchison under a less than transparent bidding process...
Infuriated by Lee's abandonment last month of the "one China" principle, China has been flooding pro-Beijing papers in Hong Kong with scare stories, as well as filling the skies over the Taiwan Strait with warplanes, in part to send a message to Taiwan's voters who will choose Lee's successor next year. The experts don't discount the risk that this psychological warfare could by accident erupt into the real thing, but figure Beijing has too much at stake right now, including an upcoming Clinton-Jiang meeting and a long-sought deal to get into the World...
...treated as a separate state and by an increasing challenge from hard-liners in the Communist Party to put the brakes on an economic reform program which has dramatically increased social instability in China. But barring the pontiff may not help Beijing?s long-term goals. "People in Hong Kong view this as a sign of increasing intervention and control by Beijing in violation of the ?One Country, Two Systems? principle under which the territory rejoined the mainland," says Dowell. And "One Country, Two Systems," of course, had been designed, ultimately, to coax Taiwan to rejoin the mainland...