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AsahinaKimi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-17-11 08:16 PM
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Hong Kong gets an unlikely hero
Edited on Sun Apr-17-11 08:18 PM by AsahinaKimi
Ng has been arrested six times already this year for illegally selling egg waffles in the city's Causeway Bay district. He has been making and selling his waffles in the district's streets for 30 years; indeed he has become something of an institution in the Tai Hang neighborhood, where residents crowd around his cart holding out HK$10 notes and coins to pay for a taste of his homemade treats, baked on a charcoal stove.



By Kent Ewing

HONG KONG - Everywhere you look these days there are signs of the social fabric of this city of 7.1 million tightly packed but widely divided people fraying at the edges.

Radical legislators have made hurling fruit and invective an eagerly anticipated ritual whenever the city's top officials appear in the chamber of the Legislative Council, Hong Kong's mini-parliament.

Youthful protesters have laid siege to the corporate headquarters of Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong's richest man, claiming that "Superman", as Li is known in business circles, is the city's defacto leader (not Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen) and that profit and greed are the key components of its unspoken creed.


Ng Yuk-fai arrested..again

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/MD15Ad01.html

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omg, those look good, I would try one!!
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