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Fat Pang, part one

Submitted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on Tue, 09/28/2010 - 10:59
The torrents of abuse from Beijing that greeted the PADS scheme, which took, as these things do, some time to get going very visibly, but which started with the arrival in Hong Kong of squads of (usually) British and (occasionally) Japanese civil engineers and architects and the mobilisation to Hong Kong of seventy per cent of the world's dredger fleet, was as nothing compared to what happened next.

Sir David Wilson and the Rose Garden

Submitted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on Tue, 09/21/2010 - 13:54
The Hong Kong economy fell off a cliff, overnight. Emigration to Canada, Singapore, wherever, increased massively.
The British decided that they had to do something to restore business confidence in Hong Kong.

I was not in, or anywhere near, the room at the time and I have no idea why it happened, but the Hong Kong Government decided to pull off the shelf a project that had been languishing in a forgotten corner.

Mystery photos # 2

Submitted by David on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 12:11

Three more mystery photos, but with a different background: This week and next I'm working on a paid project for local publisher FormAsia. The task is to provide accurate background information on a selection of photographs, for use in a future book.

Here are the three that have me stumped - all suggestions welcome (please click any photo to see more detail):

The first shows two identical houses on a hillside.

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