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Hong Kong Chief Secretary Donald Tsang was unpacking in his Washington hotel room when he heard a thunderous explosion and looked out the window to see black smoke rising from the Pentagon. It was, of course, the third terrorist plane, two others having already slammed into the World Trade Center. America was under siege. The day before, Tsang had draped a New York ferry with a banner advertising Hong Kong's attractions; within hours, that vessel would be carrying away the city's dead and injured...
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Will Hong Kong follow Beijing's lead and ban Falun Gong? The territory's leaders are sending out mixed signals. Last week, Sir Donald Tsang, head of Hong Kong's civil service, appeared to assert that the government would not outlaw the group. But his words were carefully ambiguous. And just days earlier, his boss, Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, stood up before the territory's Legislative Council and declared: "There is no doubt Falun Gong is an evil cult." That statement has been broadly interpreted as a precursor for a tough anticult bill. And if such a bill...
...view, Deng Xiaoping promoted the One Country, Two Systems formula to allow China to become more like Hong Kong, not the other way around. If Tung, out of a misplaced sense of patriotism, enacts anticult legislation to please Beijing's leaders, he will be doing his country a disservice. Tsang's remarks suggest moderation but even he left open the possibility of a future ban. "We are not legislating," he said last week, a statement that covers just the present, meaning the government might shift tack at any time. That would please the ignorant and the sycophants in China...
...emerged from that film all-woman, and her subsequent roles tended to place her as the young love interest of a middle-aged man (Jackie Chan, Gorgeous) or a destroyer of older men (Eric Tsang, My Loving Trouble). But she was missing out on some big roles. Taiwan director Sylvia Chang chose then Hong Kong It-Girl Gigi Leung over Shu Qi for Tempting Heart in 1999, fearing the growth of the character from teenage girl to mature woman would be too much of a stretch for Shu Qi. The actress, Chang feared, couldn't successfully communicate innocent. For good...