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...Martin Lee, predicts that a free press, rule of law, the right of assembly and of political demonstrations will disappear if the people of Hong Kong and the international community fail to fight Beijing for them. Tiananmen was the "real face" of the communists, says Democratic Party legislator Szeto Wah, a 66-year-old veteran opponent of Beijing, "and I know they will never allow any challenge to their authority. If China itself does not become democratic, there is little hope for Hong Kong...
Software, guns and money? While software piracy is nothing new, the people doing the pirating are. During the past 18 months, a notorious 300-year-old Hong Kong-based gang known as the Wah Ching has extended its reach beyond its usual lines of business -- murder, extortion, narcotics and gambling -- into the hugely profitable racket of software bootlegging. Police say members of the Wah Ching are using their traditional drug-smuggling routes to ship phony holograms produced in the unregulated factories of China. On April 20, for instance, a Chinese man carrying 29,000 bogus Microsoft holograms was snared...
...Wah Wah's other style--murky, cold, abrasive--has the same exhilarating-yet-numbing power of much of U2's latest albums. The third track "Jam J," seems lifted right from Zooropa, with driving rhythms, snarly lyrics obscured by feedback, and angry bursts of guitars breaking through the mess...
...other times Wah Wah incorporates unexpected sounds from different time period and cultures for a totally unique effect: track ten, "Gospel Oak," relies heavily on harpsichord-like synthesiser, with disorienting results; many songs, especially "Say Say Something," show a heavy Indian influence...
While many of the songs on Wah Wah are interesting, engrossing and innovative, the album is not without its flaws. For one thing, it's really, really long (23 tracks), and since the music is free-form and improvisational, after a while the songs start to run together and sound the same. You can only listen to so much of Wah Wah in one sitting. Also, it takes some concentration to get into many of the grooves; if you're not in the mood to be "set adrift", the meandering tunes may just lose your interest. Lastly, all the disembodied...