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...warm and humid June day a few weeks before Hong Kong's old Kai Tak Airport closed in 1998. I'd filed a feature for a British newspaper about the spanking new airport at Chek Lap Kok and had an afternoon free. Normally I would have gone shopping for presents, but was spared that dreadful ordeal as I'd heard about a crazed band of plane spotters who gathered at Kai Tak to watch the planes land...
...ROOM SERVICE This site won't win any awards for design or funky graphics, but it's probably the most complete list around for the various accommodations available in Umphang district and Tak province...
...Most North Koreans are too hungry, too terrorized and too thoroughly distanced from reality by constant government propaganda to revolt. "Inside North Korea, the majority of people still believe in their system," said Tak Eun Hyuk, a defector from a powerful North Korean family. More news from the outside world is leaking into the country across the northern border with China, and some North Koreans are starting to realize they have been duped. But when citizens waver in their loyalty, Kim has a repressive machine to equal Saddam's. An estimated 200,000 North Koreans are locked away in remote...
...after Leslie's death, his longtime lover, Daffy Tong Hok-tak, said that the star had tried killing himself with sleeping pills last November, and that he had been seriously depressed for 20 years. Twenty years! Back to the time of his first hit album; all through his reign as Canto-pop's top star and Hong Kong film's golden boy. If his eminence and allure could not make him happy, then he was a braver, more cunning artist than anyone suspected. Leslie Cheung danced before us, alluringly, and only let the seventh veil drop last week, revealing...
...dissimilarities among the 8,000 claimants, who have a range of symptoms, made it inherently unfair. Asbestos claims could cost global business $355 billion. BOTTOM LINES "It's true I can spend more time with family and friends. But it means spending more money on them too." Chang Ki Tak, office worker, on new South Korean legislation limiting the work week to 40 hours "We are horrified. It's like being called the Viagra family." Russell Cialis, public relations consultant, explaining why he's fighting to make Eli Lilly rename its Cialis impotence drug "I feel joy when...