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There were no drag queens in sexy ensembles with heavy makeup strutting down the streets in platform heels or buff shirtless sailor boys splayed like starfish on moving floats. But Hong Kong's first official gay-pride parade Saturday was still a colorful gathering; in fact, for a country that rarely acknowledges homosexuality, let alone celebrates it, it was downright revolutionary...
...Currently located on Hong Kong's Hollywood Road, Dysemevas has been showcasing the likes of clothier Yang Du (whose work is pictured) and jewelry designer Winnie Lui. Shoppers sip free cocktails while a DJ works the decks. "I wanted [Dysemevas] to be very high impact and high energy," says Poon...
Tung Chee Hwa, former chief executive of Hong Kong, said yesterday at the Harvard Kennedy School that the single most important bilateral relationship for the world is the one between the United States and China. But, he said, this relationship can only been described as passive tolerance today...
Tung held the highest administrative post of Hong Kong for eight years after Britain returned Hong Kong’s sovereignty to China in 1997. This January he founded the China-United States Exchange Foundation, hoping to improve communications between the two countries...
...fell by 2.2% compared with November, 2006. The result marked the country's first decline in exports in seven years and was a sharp reversal of the double-digit growth rates manufacturers have typically posted in recent years. The drop was "a shock figure," says Ben Simpfendorfer, the Hong Kong-based chief China economist for the Royal Bank of Scotland. "I had expected exports to collapse in the final few months but not to this extent. There really isn't a precedent. It underscores the magnitude of the global slowdown and fact that it's spilling into China...