Word: kwong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hong Kong's traders, retailers and carvers -- about 3,000 people in all -- are already suffering from the U.S., European and Japanese bans. Kwong Fat Cheung Ivory once employed 100 carvers. Now there are five, all old men, who at night can be found sitting around a table eating a silent dinner of silvery fish, cabbage and egg. Behind them is a wall of ivory tusks in burlap sacks that were destined for Taiwan until that country declared a ban in August. "There is nothing to give them to do," says Eddie Huen, one of five brothers...
...disrupted efforts to draft the Basic Law, which will serve as Hong Kong's constitution after 1997. Talks between Chinese and Hong Kong negotiators have been under way since 1985. But two key Hong Kong representatives -- Louis Cha, publisher of the Ming Pao newspaper group, and Anglican Bishop Peter Kwong -- quit the 55- member drafting committee after Beijing declared martial...
Captain: Brad Kwong...
...miscarriage of justice that was only slightly mitigated when the Crimson topped Clarkson, 2-1, without Kwong, and redeemed its captain...
...Kwong's gone now, but Waslen (whose 63 points are the high for both teams), Reston and Martel are all back. So is Mike Leblanc, another, if less well remembered, villain...