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...long ago, a newspaper quoted you as describing Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-Hwa and other leaders as "toadying." Is that how you feel? I told the reporter that I'm very unhappy. I said there are people who are doing stupid things to please Beijing, and maybe Beijing never told them to do such things. I'm not blaming Beijing, I'm not blaming Mr. Tung, I'm blaming these people...
...five years on, the yoke is coming down on the Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China. Last week, the administration of Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa unveiled what was always going to be one of the most sensitive pieces of legislation after the handover: the implementation of Article 23 of the Basic Law, calling for a provision against subversion...
...China and Tung Chee-hwa have kept meticulously to the letter of the agreements between London and Beijing. With a system that permits no effective opposition, why should they do otherwise? Are Washington and London, united with China in the fight on terror, going to nitpick over Article...
Person of the Week Hong Kong's unpopular Chief Executive TUNG CHEE-HWA bet the farm-and about $2.9 billion-that building a Disney theme park would revive his city's moribund economy. But news that Disney may be planning another park in the former colony's archrival Shanghai has Hong Kongers feeling that Scrooge McDuck has picked their pocket...
...History is against the independents. Family-run companies in Asia have a lengthy record of lining the pockets of relatives and friends at the expense of ordinary investors through sometimes murky backroom deals. Last year, for example, a family controlling Hong Kong-listed leather trader Dah Hwa International awarded itself an unsecured, interest-free loan of $6.3 million. There was nothing illegal about it, nor is there anything illegal about the proposed Boto deal. But it's hard to argue that directors have minority shareholders' interests at heart...