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...Leung Kwok-hung hasn't had a steady job in 11 years. He lives in a public-housing estate?rent is $115 a month?but he spends a lot of his time on the Hong Kong street, where he is known as a full-time antigovernment protester. His nickname, Long Hair, is both description and statement: the only time Leung allows his hair to be cut is when he's jailed, which has happened four times in the past five years, for offenses such as shouting from the Legislative Council's public viewing gallery. "I am like the Little Rascal...
Karen Chang Kwok ’05, the Public Relations representative of the Harvard Hong Kong Society, said that people in Hong Kong felt the most afraid during the outbreak last spring, but still...
...museum. He has had 36 books of his Chinese poetry published and his paintings are regularly sold to collectors throughout Asia. "Tan Swie Hian is Singapore's most prolific artist in terms of the range of media he works in?from literature, calligraphy, painting, sculpture, performance to design," says Kwok Kian Chow, director of the Singapore Art Museum. Tan recently showcased the diversity of his talents in Instant Is a Millennium, the opening gala performance of the recent Singapore Arts Festival. The project took Tan two years to develop, during which he directed musicians, set designers, seamstresses and interpreters. During...
...Leslie (everyone from his co-workers to screaming fans called Cheung Kwok-wing by his English name) was gorgeous since his first TV appearance in a 1976 song contest. He matured in acting ability and the use of his smoldering charisma, but never seemed to age. "Guess how old he is," Hong Kong film folk would ask, then declare that Asia's perpetual bad boy was flirting with middle age?as suavely and as masterfully as he flirted with everything and everyone else. In his films, and in the spectacular concerts that had him crooning ballads one minute and flouncing...
...Thomas Kwok, vice chairman of Sun Hung Kai Properties, the city's second-largest developer, praised the policy as "market driven" and "in keeping with Hong Kong's status as the world's freest economy." But will this course correction put a floor under falling prices? Most analysts say no, because reducing supply doesn't address all that ails the market. Even those who view the new policy as reasonable say its effect will be muted because the local economy is struggling and buyers are scarce. "I expect there will be a positive impact in terms of the market...