Word: hwa
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Hong Kong International Literary Festival?that sure sounds like an oxymoron. Isn't Hong Kong the place where residents are interested exclusively in the Hang Seng Index, Rolex watches and, um, Rolex watches? Where the closest thing to a hot comic novel is Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa's latest plan to stabilize the real estate market...
...class will instruct nuptial novices on the practical matters of married life, such as child rearing and budgeting. But some women's-rights activists say the measure will do little to reduce splittist behavior. Sociology professor Ku Chung-hwa says marriages are on the rocks because women are no longer willing to be the junior partner. "Taiwanese women nowadays enjoy higher autonomy, and such individualism and feminism is in conflict with the traditional family structure." Huang Chang-ling, vice president of the feminist Awakening Foundation, argues that the class should put more emphasis on gender equality, "otherwise...
...Cynics say Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa's administration is plagued by an intelligence gap-government officials are simply not up to the job and, lacking any experience of elective office, have little idea how to communicate with the public. Another view is that the highly paid bureaucrats and businessmen who now lead Hong Kong are far too concerned about how they are perceived in Beijing and not sufficiently bothered about local public opinion. Both views add up to a sense of continual official bungling, underlined by a failure to appreciate just how this fecklessness causes communal disquiet...
...absent outside interference. Brooke points to a similar, and ineffective, halt to government land sales in 1998 as evidence that the new policy is misguided. Indeed, past attempts to micro-manage the market seem to have done more harm than good. In 1997, Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa embarked on a 10-year plan designed to increase home ownership in Hong Kong. But the subsidized housing scheme ran straight into the teeth of an economic recession, causing home prices to fall more steeply...
...base is, of course, political. Of Taiwan's four major parties, only the KMT has anything to lose. Outsiders are not privy to the party's inner workings, but there's no doubt profits from its enterprises?which include China Petrochemical Development Corp, Broadcasting Corporation of China, and Fuh-Hwa Financial Holdings Co.?are converted into political currency to the detriment of opponents...