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Confirming what was common knowledge in Hong Kong, Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa announced last week that he had resigned. While Tung said he was leaving because the job was wearing him down, China's leaders have clearly telegraphed in recent months their unhappiness with Tung's inability to run Hong Kong to their satisfaction. How will his successor, 60-year-old Chief Secretary Donald Tsang, fare? That's one of the many questions being asked about Hong Kong's new leader. Here are the critical ones, and the answers to them...
...Trouble is, eight years ago, precisely the same could have been said of Tung. The central truth about Hong Kong is that it has long ceased being a society that cares about nothing but business and stability. Do Tsang, Hu, and Wen understand that? And?a harder question, with more profound consequences for Hong Kong?if they do, is Beijing prepared to tolerate...
...we’re having a lot more freshmen show up, and we succeeded in getting grad schools to show,” said Tung...
Attendance dropped more than half from last year, when over 200 Harvard students participated, helping to raise over $900, according to Stephanie H. Tung ’06, who organized the event with Katherine Chen ’06 and Jonathan W. Scott...
...Tung attributed the low turnout in part to overlap with Junior Parents Weekend, which she said would lessen the number of participants from the class...