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...Tung. As days went by, those signals proved wrong, and Beijing has come out sternly in favor of the status quo. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said he was sure that most people in Hong Kong "will support the government." A harsher editorial in the Hong Kong edition of the state-run China Daily said people opposed to the Article 23 legislation were responsible for "a treacherous act against their motherland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong Gridlock | 7/14/2003 | See Source »

...ARRESTED. CHEN FUZHAO, 29, an accused member of the banned Chinese religious sect Falun Gong; on suspicion of killing 16 homeless people by giving them food laced with rat poison; in Zhejiang province, China. According to state-run media, Chen confessed to the crime, claiming he was committing a virtuous act in expectation of karmic compensation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

...merits of particular arrests, Lisbon lawyer Francisco O'Neill Marques says, "Rich and powerful people have been detained. It makes me proud to be a lawyer." Pedroso's was one of several high-profile arrests after an interminable, eight-month police investigation into a pedophile network operating in state-run children's homes known as Casa Pia. Also placed in preventive detention was Jorge Ritto, a former ambassador to South Africa, along with a doctor, a lawyer and a TV anchorman. The arrests came after police used controversial powers to tap the cellular phones of prominent opposition politicians, including Pedroso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Better Late than Never | 5/28/2003 | See Source »

...will "get rid of them," Garner promised. Within that category, there has already been some self-selection. "The real thugs won't dare go back to work--we will throw them out," says Sala Korshed, 61, who manages the janitors and maintenance workers in the central office of state-run Rasheed Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sorting The Bad From The Not So Bad | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

...from inside North Korea that the country's impoverished masses may be losing faith in the system-or at least getting bored with it. Kim himself is reputed to have a vast collection of foreign movies, some of them blue. Everyone else has to make do with a single state-run TV channel that serves up a starchy diet of Kim coverage, propaganda songs and chaste films with revolutionary themes. But errant desires are hard to control: the document states that customs authorities seized twice as much porn and other contraband in 2002 as they did in 2001. Toxic foreign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forbidden Fruit | 5/5/2003 | See Source »

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