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1964: Typhoons & Telephones

Submitted by Peter Kelly on Sat, 07/10/2021 - 14:15

As we head into the typhoon season, guest author Peter Kelly remembers the troubles they caused him in 1964, when he was in Hong Kong as a telecoms engineer with the army:

Our busiest time was during the typhoon season. This occurred every year with some years being spectacularly damaging. I had one of those years, with cables being uprooted by anchor chains and mass flooding of many of our manholes.

The warnings would start at number one or two and slowly climb to ten.

The Anglo-Chinese Boundary 1898

Submitted by Klaus on Sat, 06/26/2021 - 23:31

Guest author Klaus Liphard describes how the boundary between the New Territories and China was created in the 1890s.

 

Introduction

At the end of the 19th century, the Chinese Qing Empire was weak. This was utilized by foreign powers - France, Germany, Russia, and also Great Britain - to force China to lease territories to them.

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