Hong Kong's potential torch bearers include former windsurfer Lee Lai Shan, cyclist Wong Kam-Po and the following members of Hong Kong's richest families and celebrities: Thomas Kwok, Managing Director, Sun Hung Kai Properties, Peter Li, Vice-Chair, Henderson Land, Victor Li, Managing Director, Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited, Michael Lee, Hysan Development, Pansy Ho, MGM Grand Paradise, Young DAB Chairman Cheung Kwok-Kwan, Liza Wang, veteran artist & CPPCC (Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference) member, singer/actor Andy Lau and canto-pop singer Jacky Cheung.
Implications/Analysis:
These people are all pro-Beijing people. No democrats were considered
Four more pro-Tibet activists, Zhang Yu, general secretary of the writers' group Independent Chinese Pen Centre, Students for Free Tibet activists Tsering Lama & Kate Woznow and Free Tibet Campaign's Matt Whitticase were detained and questioned after arriving from Sweden at 1600, questioned upon arrival and put on return flights to Sweden as well as flights to the US and Britain, according to Hong Kong Journalists' Association official Mak Yin-ting.
According to Woznow, immigration officials gave no reason as to why they were being turned away adding that “The Hong Kong government is being pressured by the Chinese government”.
According to Whitticase, denying them entry into Hong Kong was “a slap in the face for “one country, two systems”.
According to Mak, Zhang was allowed into Hong Kong in February, 2007 when he arrived from Beijing, but was barred from entering mainland China for “violating national security”. Zhang visited Hong Kong earlier this year.
Implications/Analysis:
The Hong Kong government has always been controlled by the Chinese government and Hong Kong is really just like China except for the fact that here in Hong Kong, people sit on the right side of the vehicle and drive on the left side of the road while it's the other way round in China. The only similarity between China and the US is that both countries drive on the right side of the road. Politically, the two countries could not be more different
Mainland Train Crash
According to Geng Zhixiu, deputy engineer-in-chief of the Ministry of Railways, at 402, the Bureau dispatcher issued an order to limit the speed of the train to 80 kilometers/hour on the Wangtun section of the line in Zibo. Somehow, that order wasn't issued to train TI95 en route from Beijing to Qingdao. According to Geng, “The Jinan Bureau's management of documents and orders was a mess. In this lay the seeds for the accident”.
Conclusion: Human error was the cause of the mainland's worst rail disaster since 1997
