Word: tsang
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...campaign headquarters of Hong Kong's Chief Executive, Donald Tsang, is unusual for an election nerve center. For one thing, it's clean, and quiet: no spilled coffee, no half-eaten pizza slices, no one cursing into a phone. The staff are unfailingly polite, and they don't run-they walk. As befits Hong Kong's profile as a financial town above all else, Tsang's election office is in a commercial tower, on the 28th floor. (Hong Kong people consider 28 to be an advantageous number because, in Cantonese, it sounds like "easy to prosper.") In case that...
...Tsang doesn't need any. The 62-year-old is running for a second term as Chief Executive-the strangely apt title for the head of Hong Kong's government. But the vote is restricted to the 800 members of an electoral college who are drawn from assorted business, professional and social groups. Most of them tend to bend whichever way the wind from Beijing is blowing. And, these days, it is blowing in Tsang's favor. Though he is facing a challenger from the city's democratic camp-lawyer and lawmaker Alan Leong-Tsang already commands 641 nominations from...
...Tsang is acting as if he's in a real race. He has gone to the trouble of releasing a manifesto that spells out his ambitious plans to make Hong Kong a richer, cleaner, more equitable and more democratic society. In a town run by an aggregation of élites, he has pressed the flesh in working-class neighborhoods, engaged in televised candidate debates with Leong, and even taken a ride in an open-topped bus, waving to people who can't vote for him. Tsang is doing all this because he wants a wider mandate...
...university poll about the debate showed that nearly 65% of those surveyed would still vote for Donald Tsang if they could. Hong Kong people do not fully realize or appreciate how different I am from Donald Tsang. Also, this is not really a free election. It has always been the accepted position that Beijing wants Donald Tsang to continue in office. So people have the mindset: "Well, Donald Tsang is going to win. I want to vote for the winner, not the loser...
...Donald Tsang is known for his bow ties. You're known for your pocket-handkerchiefs. What's the story? My pocket-chief comes from my Cambridge days. Wearing a pocket-chief is very normal in the U.K. I don't know about the bow tie. You'd better ask Donald...