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...sponsored event on the prospects for Chinese democracy caused the Harvard University Police Department to remove audience member Wei Chaoyong, a visiting scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, from the Fong Auditorium yesterday evening. The event featured Szeto Wah, a prominent Chinese dissident and the Chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movement of China, who said that the international community would be mistaken to think that the country’s communist government was moving towards a more democratic society. “On the surface, the Chinese Communist government has allowed some concessions toward...
...done itself any favors either. It blocked--on antitrust grounds that analysts considered flimsy--a bid by Coca-Cola to buy a large, privately owned fruit-juice producer in China. "It gives [foreign] governments ammunition to use against Chinese acquisitions that wasn't available before," acknowledges a Hong Kong--based investment banker who is working on one of the resource deals...
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...risk, according to a study Zhang conducted in 2006, and the enduring discrimination homosexuals face in China prevents many men from getting tested for HIV/AIDS or seeking treatment. Only with more understanding and tolerance will efforts to curb the spread of HIV be effective, Zhang said. (Read about Hong Kong's gay pride revolution...
...country as low as $5 per customer, many sex workers can't afford effective protection, and free condoms distributed in government programs are often low quality. "We hear the girls complain all the time that the condoms break when they use them," says Elaine Lam, of the Hong Kong-based sex workers support organization, Zi Teng, which works with sex workers in southern China...