Word: hong
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said his trip to Japan, Hong Kong and China was mostly spent on of University business...
While Lewis was enjoying Midwestern dining, Knowles was returning from a post-Commencement tour of Asia. He said his trip to Japan, Hong Kong and China was mostly spent on of University business...
...little more than two weeks, I will leave my first summer home here in New York to spend the rest of my vacation in Hong Kong. I look forward to the trip not only for the chance to be with my family and to sleep until mid-afternoon; once there, I will also take part in what has become a enjoyable but slightly awkward ritual among me and my Hong Kong friends. Several times a week, I will get together with the dozen or so people who have come for the summer from all over the world...
These are my best friends from kindergarten and elementary school. Together we have lived through class bullies and tyrannical teachers, and have bonded through numerous birthday parties and family gatherings. These are also the friends from whom I have been virtually separated since fifth grade, when I left Hong Kong to live in Houston, Texas. But it is not simply that I had left my friends behind; during those years, everyone who had the means to were leaving Hong Kong in fear of the handover in 1997. Our group of friends gradually became scattered to all corners of the world...
...Which it very well could. "For China, bringing Taiwan back under its control, like Hong Kong, has always been a long-term goal, as in 50 or 100 years from now," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "But Beijing doesn?t want Taiwan making any moves either." The move itself may have been no more than local politics; Lee has a presidential election coming up, and independence is a potent issue at home. But trouble is trouble, and when Lee made similar noises in 1996 (for his previous election bid) the U.S. sent warships to the region after China shot...