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...bird-flu outbreak. But until this week, China had reported no widespread outbreaks of the virus among bird populations, prompting concerns among some public-health experts that mainland health and veterinary authorities could be missing - or even concealing - the spread of the disease through poultry and wild birds. Hong Kong, where the first human cases of H5N1 infection were found in 1997, reported finding a dozen birds with the deadly strain of the virus earlier this year - a strong indication that the virus is very likely present in adjacent Guangdong province. But so far, Guangdong has reported no bird cases...
...China, plus new outbreaks among poultry in neighboring Vietnam and northeast India, indicate the likelihood of a firm presence of the virus on the mainland. Some experts worry that China could be missing the disease's deadly progression. Last week Dr. Lo Wing-Lok, an adviser to the Hong Kong government on communicable diseases, said the mainland had not been forthright about the spread of bird flu in poultry. "There's no doubt of an outbreak of bird flu in China, though the government hasn't admitted it," he told Bloomberg. Yu Kangzhen, the Ministry of Agriculture's chief veterinarian...
...goal the hero can achieve, whether or not that makes any difference. In the movie world, Clive Owen can track, find and eliminate the bad guy. In the real world, a banker like Skarssen is just one bad guy; and a million more just like him, in London, Geneva, Hong Kong and lower Manhattan, are panting to take his place. They all know that, these days, banks don't even have to steal to increase their wealth. They take a congressional slap on the wrist, then pocket trillions from the Treasury...
...Walker is the founder and CEO of Asianomics Limited, a Hong Kong consulting and economic-research company
...Hong Kong police, for their part, argue that the current law is fair. It "strikes a reasonable balance between the human rights and privacy of sex workers, the well-being of other members of the community as well as the prevailing moral values of the community," a police spokesman stated in an e-mail. "The police aim to prevent the exploitation of women and girls for the purposes of prostitution, to combat organized prostitution activities and to lessen the nuisance to members of the public that 'vice activities' may cause." A more pressing goal, however, is to catch...