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...have just done a very small step by allowing charter flights. That has to be improved. If you fly from Shanghai to Taipei you still have to fly over the airspace of Hong Kong. The air controllers of Taiwan and the mainland are still unable to talk to each other. Now we have to change that, and we may be able to change that in the next couple months so that we can save a lot of fuel and time, from 2.5 hours between Taipei and Shanghai to only 80 minutes. Then we have to allow charter cargo flights, which...
...elementary school and cast his vote. Why can't we? Are we second-class citizens?" When you look at those questions, you know what kind of impact Taiwan would have on the mainland. For those who come to Taiwan, they know that Taiwan is not like Hong Kong. Both places are free, but here, this is a full democracy...
...Jianfu Palace, tucked away in the Northwest corner of the Forbidden City, brought together the power brokers who had forged the ties that today bind China and the United States. Blue bloods and red bloods, you might say, gathered for a valedictory celebration of their achievements: Hosted by Hong Kong real estate developer Ronnie Chan, the purpose was to put a punctuation mark at the end of an era - an exclamation point, not a period...
...This is the quintessential Hong Kong breakfast. Even McDonald's and KFC serve noodle soups, usually with an inexplicable hunk of meat dropped in the mix. Instead of eggs and toast, you'd be more likely to have ramen with a hot dog thrown in. I leave happy and satiated, although unnerved by the waitress. Maybe she's just cranky, or maybe it's like France...
...presented in incredible density: from Victoria Peak, you can see just how impossibly tiny the Hong Kong Island urban jungle is. Central's twinkling strip of tenements and skyscrapers line one bank of Victoria Bay while Tsim Sha Tsui, on the far side, is Central's equally slender but less dramatic companion. The manmade portion of Hong Kong is merely two shimmering halves of a wafer-thin cookie engulfed in mountains of green...