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...warm and humid June day a few weeks before Hong Kong's old Kai Tak Airport closed in 1998. I'd filed a feature for a British newspaper about the spanking new airport at Chek Lap Kok and had an afternoon free. Normally I would have gone shopping for presents, but was spared that dreadful ordeal as I'd heard about a crazed band of plane spotters who gathered at Kai Tak to watch the planes land...
...Subsequent visits to Hong Kong were strangely disappointing. I was unable to focus on writing other stories because I wanted to return to Kai Tak even though it had long closed. It was like trying to start a new relationship when you're still in love with someone from the past. Nothing in Hong Kong could match the excitement of watching the planes land that June...
Fresh from reporting Deutsche Telekom's first profit in two years - after making a European-record €24.6 billion loss last year - CEO Kai-Uwe Ricke promised last week that 2003 was "the year of the turnaround." DT isn't the only telecom dialing up good numbers: a string of other phone companies have reported positive results, including British Telecom, which last week posted a 40% gain in quarterly profits. But phone companies aren't off the hook. BT's €8.1 billion pension hole dwarfs its income. And better profits owe more to cost cutting and asset sales than...
Fresh from reporting Deutsche Telekom's first profit in two years - after making a European-record €24.6 billion loss last year - CEO Kai-Uwe Ricke promised last week that 2003 was "the year of the turnaround." DT isn't the only telecom dialing up good numbers: a string of other phone companies have reported positive results, including British Telecom, which last week posted a 40% gain in quarterly profits. But phone companies aren't off the hook. BT's €8.1 billion pension hole dwarfs its income. And better profits owe more to cost cutting and asset sales than...
Although the communists and their nationalist predecessors under Chiang Kai-shek considered their parties to be fiercely opposed, their practice of exterminating dissent and enforcing a unitary party line made them equally brutal enemies of the people. Nationalists killed well over 10 million Chinese before the communists took their place, slaughtering and starving far more...