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...police raids on news offices following publication of information embarrassing to the government. That's only supposed to happen in the large communist state across the straits. So Taiwanese journalists were surprised last week when police swept through the offices and printing plant of Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai's Next magazine. Some 160,000 copies of the flamboyant weekly were seized before they could reach newsstands. Authorities threatened to bring charges against a Next reporter for leaking national secrets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

...SONYA M. LAI...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO HEADLINE | 3/22/2002 | See Source »

...SONYA M. LAI...

Author: By Sonya M. Lai, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alanis Knows What She Wants | 3/15/2002 | See Source »

...handed lists of political prisoners to Beijing it wants released. The pressure has seemed to pay off. In the weeks before Bush's arrival, China freed three prisoners: Tibetan musicologist and Fulbright scholar Ngawang Choephel, Wang Ce of the banned China Democracy Party and a Hong Kong man, Lai Kwong-keung, who had been sentenced to two years in jail for smuggling unauthorized versions of the Bible into the mainland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sticking Point | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...engagement to the Argentine last March, the couple has since found public favor and last week hosted a regal wedding party for 50,000. BORN. To comic actor EDDIE MURPHY and his wife, NICOLE, a daughter, Bella Zahra; in Los Angeles. She is the couple's fifth child. SENTENCED. LAI KWONG-KEUNG, 38, to two years in prison after he was found guilty of smuggling some 30,000 Bibles into mainland China for a banned Christian sect; by a court in Fuqing. The Hong Kong businessman's conviction was decried by activists and religious groups, and was upheld despite concern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

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