Word: tak
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...planned government headquarters?4 hectares reclaimed from what was once HMS Tamar, a British Royal Navy base?will adjoin 18 hectares of Central waterfront now being filled in. Two other major harborfront sites?40 hectares in West Kowloon slated for a cultural center and the former Kai Tak airport?are now in planning stages. "These are three very important pieces in the jigsaw of the city," says Bosco Fung, Hong Kong's Director of Planning. "Once finished with these three, we will have a complete picture of the metro area." Hong Kong could yet have a waterfront to rival those...
...been driving a $140,000 BMW imported in violation of customs laws, and that his family has trademarked the symbols of the orange revolution. These include the word Yushchenko and the slogan i believe, I know, we can, both against an orange background, as well as the word tak! (yes) written over a lucky horseshoe. The Kommersant-Ukraine daily newspaper estimates the trademarks are worth some $100 million a year. Last week Yushchenko tried to limit the damage by admitting that "many new faces have come to power, but the face of power has not changed." But a top Tymoshenko...
...Hong Kong people have been terrific at filling in their harbor. The fashionistas' haunts in Causeway Bay, the new 88-story IFC II building (sixth tallest in the world) in Central, Suzie Wong's bars in Wanchai, the world's busiest container port, the runway at the old Kai Tak airport that used to have white-knuckled flyers fingering their rosaries?they were all built on reclaimed land. One hundred and sixty years of hauling landfill from mountainsides and construction dumps and shoveling it into the water has left Hong Kong with a harbor that, between the Central business district...
...Last month police and soldiers shot dead six Muslim protesters in nearby Tak Bai, and another 79 perished on military trucks ferrying them to an army camp. Since then more than 30 people have been killed by unknown attackers in what Buddhists fear is an escalating campaign to drive them from southern Thailand. In response, Buddhists are arming themselves?and not just in the villages. Every Sunday a Thai businessman drives his armor-plated car to a navy firing range outside Narathiwat town, where he and other local Buddhists practice how to shoot. While a bank manager and a bookshop...
...Buddhists, too, feel under siege. In recent weeks militants have been targeting not just soldiers, police and government officials but also ordinary Buddhists in what is apparently a campaign of vengeance for the Tak Bai killings. The militants are driving a wedge between communities that used to live in relative harmony. "When I grew up here, Muslims and Buddhists got on like brothers and sisters," recalls a monk at Ba Pai temple near Narathiwat. Today what both sides share is fear, paranoia and a simmering anger that the violence now threatens their homes. In the Buddhist village of Tung...