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...family back home has been warned several times that I must end my involvement in the democracy movement here." Soon after her escape, she applied for political asylum in any Western country. But she fears she will still be waiting for an answer when the colony rejoins the mainland on July 1. "I'm a nobody in the outside world. Unless I get asylum, I can only sit and wonder how long it will be before they come...
...with the Asia-Pacific region's political and business leaders, as well as many of those in the U.S., where he co-chairs the U.S.-Hong Kong Economic Cooperation Committee with former U.S. Federal Reserve Board chairman Paul Volcker. More important, his family bridges the chasms separating the communist mainland from capitalist Hong Kong and a defiant Taiwan...
...father, C.Y. Tung, flamboyant founder of the Orient Overseas shipping empire, cultivated close relations with Chiang Kai-shek after Chiang's Nationalists fled the mainland for Taiwan. C.Y.'s Hong Kong-registered fleet became a valuable icon of "free China's" economic dynamism. By the time C.Y. died in 1982, however, the company was on the verge of collapse, with 24 tankers on order at a time when a global oversupply of vessels had sent shipping rates plummeting. It fell to C.H., the eldest son, to announce in August 1985 that the company could not repay $2.68 billion in debt...
...Chungking Express By the time Americans finally catch up with Hong Kong cinema--since the mid-'80s the world's most turbulent and entertaining--it may have been suffocated by the censorious new lords from the mainland. So Wong Kar-wai's kicky art movie about two cops on the night shift not only is as mod as tomorrow's couture, it also serves as a nostalgia trip through what has been Asia's freest colony. Here are a cool killer-drug queen (veteran stunner Brigitte Lin) and an indefatigable ingenue (pop pixie Faye Wang) exercising their wiles on lovelorn...
According to legal experts, however, the right of gay couples to marry in Hawaii won't have a broad impact on the mainland for some time to come. The state supreme court's decision has no binding effect as a precedent in other states, though gays elsewhere could invoke the persuasiveness of its reasoning. Other states remain free to set gender-based restrictions on marriage because the U.S. Supreme Court has never decided whether the Federal Constitution bans such restrictions. (The high courts of several states have ruled that it does...