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Map performance improved

Submitted by David on Tue, 12/07/2010 - 22:02

If you've ever tried the "... more places" link over on the left of the page, I bet you've only tried it once. It was just about unuseable.

I'm pleased to say that the recent round of work in the boiler room has made it a lot better. I've just posted up the finished version, so I'll be grateful if you'll try it out and let me know if it works ok: "... more places". (It works fine in Internet Explorer 8, but it's still slower than I'd like. You'll get much better performance if you use FireFox.)

War Crimes in Hong Kong

Submitted by David on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 16:38

Summary: If you have any information related to Hong Kong's War Crimes Trials held in the late 1940s, Ms Suzannah Linton (suzannah.linton@hku.hk) would like to hear from you. She is currently researching this part of Hong Kong's history.



The Crimes


The crimes date back to the World War 2, and the Japanese invasion and occupation of Hong Kong. There are three main groups:

Summing up

Submitted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on Wed, 10/20/2010 - 11:06

Was Hong Kong, as a colony, a success?

"Was the French Revolution a success?"

"It is too early to tell."

Zhou Enlai, speaking 150 years after the event.

I think this question could be asked in different ways:

A success in terms of the original idea – a British trading post in China?