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...true. Hong Kong has embraced political theater at times of crisis in the past. I was in Hong Kong the week after the massacre in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989, when an endless line of people, many of them weeping, filed each night past the offices of the Xinhua News Agency, then China's unofficial embassy in the city, and black mourning ribbons hung from the top of the Bank of China skyscraper...
...true. Hong Kong has embraced political theater at times of crisis in the past. I was in Hong Kong the week after the massacre in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989, when an endless line of people, many of them weeping, filed each night past the offices of the Xinhua News Agency, then China's unofficial embassy in the city, and black mourning ribbons hung from the top of the Bank of China skyscraper...
China’s official Xinhua News Agency reported that Yang, a Chinese national and U.S. resident, was convicted of spying for Taiwan and illegal border crossing...
...gone through," said John Sparrow, a Beijing spokesman for the Red Cross, adding that "what was there isn't there anymore." He said a visiting Red Cross official had described "scorched" and damaged buildings radiating for four kilometers in all directions from the station. Rescue operations had apparently ended. Xinhua, quoting the North Korean in charge of the rescue efforts, Jang Song-gun, said the disaster occurred because an electrical pole was "knocked down after an oil tanker collided with two carriages loaded with ammonium nitrate...
...actually a Tiananmen widow) were detained. Associates say they were planning to submit information to the U.N. High Commission on Human Rights in Geneva and were also making preparations for the 15th anniversary of the massacre. By Friday night all three had been released. China's official Xinhua news agency tersely stated that Ding had confessed that the women had "conspired with overseas forces to evade Chinese customs and import illegal goods to China ... and engaged in other activities in violation of China's State Security Law." According to the New York-based watchdog Human Rights in China, which...