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...addition to Birkenfeld, the Department of Justice has charged Mario Staggl, a banker in Liechtenstein, who remains in that country and at work. In his guilty plea, Birkenfeld said he, Staggl and others helped create sham entities in tax havens like Switzerland, Panama, the British Virgin Islands, Hong Kong and Liechtenstein to conceal the fact that U.S. citizens owned accounts. According to an agreement UBS and other banks signed with the U.S. government in 2001, UBS should have insisted its clients file ownership forms with the IRS but in many cases the bank did not, afraid of losing business from...
...aims to chip away at prejudice by making it harder for the private sector to discriminate on grounds of race in areas such as housing or employment. But some lawmakers and activists are incensed that, unlike previous anti-discrimination ordinances covering gender and disability, the law shields the Hong Kong bureaucracy from being held to the same standards as businesses. By lobbying for the exemption, "the government is using the law to undercut the very rights [we] seek to guarantee," said Hong Kong lawmaker Margaret Ng in a recent speech...
...Moreover, ethnic Chinese arriving from the mainland - who also suffer from Hong Kongers' bias - aren't protected from racial discrimination because the law deals only with ethnicity, not nationality. "In the colonial past, signs used to say 'No Chinese or dogs allowed,'" says Law Yuk-Kai of the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor. "Now, they could just read 'No Chinese nationals or dogs allowed...
...Wong of Hong Kong Unison says that, while the new law is a step forward, the city still needs to follow through with enforcement and anti-discrimination education programs. "Hong Kong must prove that it's more than just an international money-making center," she says - and that begins with a greater appreciation for ethnic diversity. The city may imagine itself as Asia's cosmopolis, but it has yet to start acting like...
...chanting team anthems. Right now, there are more visitors than at any time since the 2000 Olympics. They carry the flags of many nations - Poland, Korea, Papua New Guinea, Argentina. But there's no rivalry. Groups meet on street corners and merge: "We're from Germany. You?" "Hong Kong." Handshakes all around. Then, the limits of English conversation reached, someone sings: "Oh, when the saints ..." Everyone joins in, if only to hum. They all know the same tunes. They're all on the same side: Team Jesus...