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...Chan has already succeeded in putting democracy back in the headlines. "For some Hong Kong people her appearance adds to the credence of universal suffrage," says Chinese University of Hong Kong political scientist Ma Ngok. "More and more people are at least verbally supportive." Chief Executive Donald Tsang has even mused that direct elections for his post?currently filled based on the vote of only 800 mostly pro-business, pro-Beijing electors?might be possible in 2012. Will Chan challenge the popular Tsang when his term is up next year? She won't say. In an open race...
...plan, which is expected to receive its final legislative approval this week, represents a political victory for Chief Executive Donald Tsang. "He wants to leave a mark in history," says Ma Ngok, a political scientist at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. "Of course, Donald hasn't achieved a lot of concrete things, so this may be one thing he can secure within his term of office...
...Finishing it up will not come easy. The government postponed plans for a new headquarters at Tamar during the SARS outbreak, and when it reintroduced them last fall, it met strong opposition. But Tsang has pushed the plan aggressively. In March, he met with representatives of the Harbour Business Forum, a coalition of prominent corporate leaders who had issued a detailed report outlining problems with current government plans for the Central waterfront, and "gave them a bit of a dressing down," according to a person familiar with the meeting. Since then the group has been more muted on the harbor...
...Hong Kong government is working relentlessly to improve our environment. Our work in Hong Kong has clear objectives and implementation goals backed by a well-established institutional setup. This setup now extends to Guangdong, where our Chief Executive, Donald Tsang, and the Guangdong Governor, Huang Huahua, oversee a Joint Liaison Group to agree on action plans and monitor progress on the environment for the whole Pearl River Delta region. The target on air quality is to achieve emissions reductions for both sides by 2010. The reduction program has started and 16 state-of-the-art monitoring stations...
...swoony romantic heroes go, vampires are made to order: brooding, dangerous, mysterious, snappily dressed (although, alas, the cape has largely been dispensed with) with eye-catching dentition. "It's that fantasy about taming the bad boy, and you can't get any worse than a vampire," says Erika Tsang, a senior editor at Avon Books, which publishes Teresa Medeiros' popular vampire novels. "They have been alive for 600 years. They've experienced everything. Then all of a sudden they meet this great heroine, who basically is a breath of fresh air. Falling in love, trying to find that spark again...