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...contrast, trouble awaits those who want to get involved. Beside a railway track in south Beijing, five people have camped out in a plastic tent. Meng Jianxin, the most outspoken of them, traveled to Beijing last week from Fengjie city in Sichuan province, where his family home will be flooded by the Three Gorges Dam. He says local officials embezzled much of his compensation money, and he's here to petition the congress for redress. "I want to ask the delegates who they represent, who elected them," he says. At the nearby train station, six uniformed police watch from under...
...Meng ’03 is a history and literature concentrator in Adams House. Her column appears on alternate Mondays...
...Meng ’03 is a history and literature concentrator in Adams House. Her column appears regularly...
...detour down Lorong Love?reputedly the former hangout of prostitutes?0leads to the very respectable premises of the Lim Tan Tin shop, where Lim Meng Hooi and her three brothers carry on the family business: selling and repairing mah-jongg sets. The Chinese love of gambling has been subdued in Islamic Malaysia, but it hasn't been stamped out. Says Lim: "One group of four people or just a family playing is O.K. More than that, the police come and take everyone to court...
...Meng ’03 is a history and literature concentrator in Adams House. Her column appears on alternate Thursdays...