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...Mainland officials well know that chicken flu is bad for business. After each H5N1 outbreak, Hong Kong has banned poultry imports from China, if only temporarily. When Macau detected H5N1 in Chinese geese last May, Chinese waterfowl imports were banned for three months. And after avian flu was detected in Chinese duck meat by Seoul authorities in mid-2001, Japan and South Korea imposed a two-month ban. Within days of Hong Kong's latest outbreak, sales of chicken plunged 80%?an estimated loss to retailers of $13 million. "This is supposed to be our peak season," says Wong...
...these guys don't need the mainstream Hong Kong music machine. LMF writes its own songs, designs its own album covers and has its own recording studio. They've performed in South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Shenzhen and Macau. Lazy Clan, the latest album, wasn't a breakout seller by Canto-pop standards, but fans bought about 80,000 copies. The best measure of LMF's success: its wide-ranging influence on Cantonese youth culture. LMF members have spawned their own clothing lines, inspired a line of popular action figures and are the subject of a documentary that is spinning through...
...mighty varyag, an aircraft carrier once intended to be the pride of the Soviet fleet, is 300 m long, displaces 67,500 tons of water and is stuck. For 13 months, the decommissioned behemoth has been marooned in the Black Sea waiting to be towed to Macau, where it's slated to become a floating casino. Turkey won't let it go?ostensibly because it could sideswipe houses along the Bosphorus Strait, even though the waterway is 700 m wide at its narrowest. Politics is the more likely culprit. Some lawmakers worry that China?which has been looking...
...Chinese authorities say they are dealing with the triad menace. Last month, police in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau conducted a week-long crackdown on gangs that resulted in more than 1,000 arrests; some 35,000 police took part in Guangdong alone. But many believe the crack-down was mainly cosmetic and will leave the criminal gangs largely unharmed...
...chung, vice chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council: "We have to admit that there's little we can do for our Taiwanese businessmen in China." Taipei's powerlessness and Beijing's cold shoulder mean that businesspeople are "on their own, like orphans," according to Isao Chen, chairman of the Macau-Taiwan Merchants' Association...