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		<title>Hong Kong Transgender Woman Wins Legal Battle to Marry</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/13/hong-kong-transgender-woman-wins-right-to-marry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 06:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(HONG KONG) — Hong Kong&#8217;s top court granted a transgender woman the right to marry her boyfriend Monday in a watershed ruling that falls short of allowing same-sex marriage. The surprise decision only covers the right of a transgender person who was born male to marry a man, and for one who was born female to marry a woman. The ruling by the Court of Final Appeal brings the semiautonomous Chinese city in line with many other places in the Asia-Pacific region, including mainland China, where transgender people are allowed to marry as their new gender. The court ruled in favor of the woman, identified only as W. One of the judges on the five-member panel dissented. W&#8217;s lawyer, Michael Vidler, said his client was &#8220;overjoyed.&#8221; W, who is in her 30s, was born a man but had surgery in 2008 to become a woman. The hospital issued a letter certifying her new gender. Vidler read a statement by W to reporters in which she said that after the surgery she has lived her life &#8220;as a woman and been treated as a woman in all respects except as regards my right to marriage. This decision rights that wrong.&#8221; Vidler said the ruling won&#8217;t take effect for 12 months, giving the the government time to change marriage laws. The judges noted that from evidence and submissions received, &#8220;it appears in the Asia-Pacific region, such marriages are permitted&#8221; in mainland China, Singapore, India, South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand. Same-sex marriage remains rare in the region, though New Zealand approved it last month. In China, the Ministry of Civil Affairs clarified the law in 2003 to make it clear that transgender marriage is legal. Hong Kong, a former British colony, came back under Chinese control in 1997 but was granted a high degree of autonomy from Beijing and retains a separate legal system. In New Zealand, probably the most liberal country in the Asia-Pacific region when it comes to gay and transgender issues, such marriages have been legal since a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=86246&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mainland Chinese Traders Milking Hong Kong for All Its Worth</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/04/mainland-chinese-traders-milking-hong-kong-for-all-its-worth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 01:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Ko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tensions between Hong Kong people and their mainland Chinese compatriots have deteriorated further — and this time, it’s not over politics, clashing cultural attitudes or northern carpetbaggers driving up Hong Kong property prices with their lavish investments. Instead the point of contention is a product that is seemingly innocuous but says much about relations between China’s freest city and its vast hinterland: infant-milk formula. Stocks of baby-milk powder have become alarmingly scarce in Hong Kong because of the activity of so-called gray-market traders from mainland border towns. They turn up in Hong Kong on multiple-entry tourist visas, often making several runs a day to buy up tins of formula from Hong Kong retail outlets and sell them back in the mainland, where the item commands a stiff premium. (Buying products in Hong Kong and taking them into China to sell is not illegal.) The dearth of formula in Hong Kong shops led the government to announce on Friday that, with effect from later this month, people leaving the city will only be allowed to take two cans of formula with them. The possibility of designating milk formula a “reserved commodity” like rice — meaning that its export would be restricted, price ceilings set and a reserve stock created — has also been mooted, alongside proposals to ban mainland visitors from entering Hong Kong more than once per day. (MORE: Trouble Down South: Why Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese Aren’t Getting Along) Since 2008’s contaminated-formula scare — in which hundreds of thousands of mainland babies fell ill after being fed Chinese-made formula and related products that had been adulterated with melamine — foreign milk-powder brands, such as those on sale in affluent Hong Kong, have been seen as safer. But while the desire of any parent to secure the best possible supplies of food for their children is understandable, the milk-formula issue has come to crystallize for Hong Kong people the disquieting ease with which the mainland is now no longer a brooding, remote power, at a distance behind the Kowloon<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=67119&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">People transporting boxes filled with baby formula queue up to get their packages weighed at the Sheung Shui train station prior to their journey back to mainland China in Hong Kong on Jan. 29, 2013.</media:title>
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		<title>Asia&#8217;s Art-Fair Boom: Hong Kong and Singapore Compete for Cultural Top Slot</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/21/asias-art-fair-boom-hong-kong-and-singapore-compete-for-cultural-top-slot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 04:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Bergman / Singapore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When photographers Rachel Rillo and Isa Lorenzo opened their Silverlens gallery in Manila in 2004 — the first dedicated photography gallery in the Philippines — they had few ways to reach buyers outside the country. But as the Asian art market has boomed over the past decade, so too have art fairs that allow galleries like Silverlens to hook up with nouveau riche collectors from China, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and beyond. Rillo says they were early to jump on the circuit, spending a good chunk of their budget to exhibit at fairs in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore. “People just don’t think of contemporary art and say, ‘Oh, sure I’ll go to the Philippines,’” she says. “The influx of all these art fairs came at a great time.” Twenty years ago, East Asia had one art fair of note — Art Taipei, founded in 1992. Today, it seems every major city in the region has a fair, and some cities are host to several of varying size. Hong Kong, for instance, held six fairs last year, including Art HK, the premier art event on the continent, and has plans to add yet another in 2013, a miniversion of France’s oldest art fair, Biennale des Antiquaires. Not only are these events becoming big business in Asia, the region’s major cities see them as critical vehicles for cultivating creative identities and developing world-class art scenes. But while many cities would like to lay claim to being Asia’s global arts leader, only two cities realistically have a shot at snagging the title — Hong Kong and Singapore. (MORE: Is Asia&#8217;s Red-Hot Art Market Heading for a Slowdown?) This year could be pivotal in deciding who takes a decisive lead. Art HK will be reborn as part of the Art Basel global brand in May — introducing a new level of sophistication and stardom to Asia’s art-fair circuit — while the upstart Art Stage Singapore will be going all out with its third edition, running from Jan. 24 to 27, to prove it&#8217;s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=64912&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pollution and Housing Top Agenda for Hong Kong&#8217;s Embattled Leader</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/17/pollution-and-housing-top-agenda-for-hong-kongs-embattled-leader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Ko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With characteristic haze shrouding the city’s densely crowded skyline, Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying made a cautious and thoughtful debut policy address Wednesday, announcing ambitious plans to tackle air pollution and a chronic shortage of affordable housing. The measures are designed to strike a popular chord and shore up support for the beleaguered leader, who in his first six months in office has faced a no-confidence vote, street protests calling for his resignation and a scandal over unauthorized extensions he made to his Victoria Peak home. Last week he was also the target of an impeachment bid. It never appeared to have sufficient support among lawmakers to succeed, but as the first such attempt made in the local legislature since its establishment under the British in 1843, it was highly symbolic. (MORE: Hong Kong’s Embattled Leader Faces More Protests) Leung’s speech marked a notable departure from the noninterventionist mantra pursued by previous leaders — from colonial governors to those of Leung’s immediate post-reunification predecessors — and is certain to increase the distance between him and the city’s freewheeling tycoons. But such measures appear unavoidable in a city that is one of the world’s great financial centers but nonetheless a place of much social frustration, where thousands still live in notorious cage homes, where some families of four are crammed into spaces of 15 sq m or even less, and where choking smog is thought to contribute to about 3,200 premature deaths each year. Though he appears unable to tackle the political issues that many believe lie at the heart of Hong Kong’s malaise —the lack of representative government and a vexed relationship with a Beijing seen as encroaching on Hong Kong’s cherished autonomy — Leung is counting on his new quality-of-life policies to ease some social dissatisfaction. “He’s going to try to win the middle-of-the-road people,” says Joseph Cheng, a political scientist at City University of Hong Kong. In his address, Leung conceded that squalid living conditions had become &#8220;the reluctant choice for tens of thousands&#8221; and said that about<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=64210&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hong Kong&#8217;s Embattled Leader Faces More Protests</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/02/hong-kongs-embattled-leader-faces-more-protests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Ko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATED: 10:30 p.m. The inauguration of Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, on July 1, 2012, was denounced by democracy activists who objected to the manner of his appointment at the hands of a few hundred members of an elite electoral college. Exactly six months into his term of office, the political climate has intensified. Mass demonstrations took place on New Year’s Day, with tens of thousands of protesters calling for the leader of China’s freest city to step down and demanding that the post be filled on a directly elected basis. University of Hong Kong enumerators said that over 30,000 took part. Pro-Leung rallies were also staged, and though much smaller (police estimate a total of 8,500 participants), they nonetheless reflected a polarization of political opinion that has become more pronounced during Leung’s administration. In one corner, a mostly middle-class movement, with well-educated young people at its core, is determined to maintain and expand upon democratic freedoms as a bulwark against mainland-Chinese encroachment, while propounding a strong Hong Kong identity distinct from the rest of the country. In the other, a movement drawn from pro-China trades unions, the working class and seniors seeks greater harmony and integration with Beijing, both for patriotic reasons and as a means of buttressing the local economy. “Freedom, democracy and culture are only part of the superstructure,” says pro-government demonstrator Tung Wah-hing, a retired engineer. “If the economy improves, democracy will improve.” (TIME’s Asia Cover Story: Can Hong Kong Trust Leung Chun-ying?) The immediate pretext for the antigovernment demonstrations on Jan. 1 is the question of Leung&#8217;s personal integrity, which has taken a battering from a deepening scandal over unauthorized additions to his house on Peel Rise, one of Hong Kong’s most expensive addresses. The enlargements, which came to light shortly before Leung’s inauguration, may appear minor, consisting of a small storage room, a trellis and other works. But in a densely crowded metropolis, where even affluent families can live in spaces far smaller than what their counterparts would enjoy in other developed cities,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=61900&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blood Ivory: Hong Kong Fights a Losing Battle Against Smugglers</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/10/15/blood-ivory-hong-kong-fights-a-losing-battle-against-smugglers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 06:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrey Yoo and Catherine Traywick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An emperor, faced with the task of selecting a successor, devises a test: he lays out an array of valuable artifacts — items of gold, jade and ivory — and asks each of his sons to choose one treasure. One prince ponders his options for a while, before selecting an ivory scepter. The emperor is pleased. Ivory is valuable, he says, and also imbued with wisdom. The son with the scepter will rule. This, of course, is merely a fable. But the tale of the emperor and his son hints at ivory’s enduring lure in China. For millennia, it has been seen as a symbol of wealth, a source of wisdom and a sign of nobility. This helps explain why more than 20 years after an international ban on the trade of elephant ivory, the business is booming. “With more disposable income in mainland China, many people are flaunting their wealth, and ivory is seen as a luxury product that confers status,” says Tom Milliken of the Wildlife Trade Monitoring Network. “We are seeing the worst poaching of elephants and the worst illegal trade in ivory over the last 23 years.” (MORE: Ivory Bonfire Highlights Elephant Poaching Crisis in Africa) Slowing the slaughter may depend on the semiautonomous Chinese territory of Hong Kong. The city is a major transit point for shipments of illegal ivory on route from Africa to mainland China. And, though it has taken some aggressive steps to combat smuggling, the trade persists. Reliable statistics on how much ivory is smuggled through Hong Kong are hard to come by, but experts note that a substantial portion of China-bound ivory passes through the port city before heading north, through the Pearl River Delta, and to the country’s ivory heartland, Guangzhou. There, in factories, tusks cut from dead elephants are transformed into decorative carvings of all shapes and sizes. Despite the vigilant policing of the Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department, which has twice been awarded the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) secretary general’s Certificate of Commendation for cracking down on illegal wildlife trade, curbing smuggling is difficult. The volume of trade that passes through Hong Kong&#8217;s ports is<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=48875&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hong Kong Ferry Disaster: A City on the Sea Mourns the Drowned</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/10/03/hong-kong-ferry-disaster-a-city-on-the-sea-mourns-the-drowned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 09:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liam Fitzpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a clear day, a ferry ride from one of Hong Kong’s outlying islands into the business district of Central is a wonderful way to get to work. At times, when the sunlight strikes the blue water of the horizon, it is astonishingly beautiful. Grassy islets fly by the window, white spray washes over the gently plunging bow, and the journey passes in an agreeable meditation of morning papers, takeaway latte and chatting to one’s neighbors. Then the Western Approaches are breached, the glory of Victoria Harbour hoves into view and even the most seasoned commuter falls momentarily silent, gazing in mute appreciation at the seaborne traffic and that unforgettable skyline. I should know. I’ve been making the 25-minute journey from my home on Park Island to the city center many times a week since 2006. From the commuter catamarans to the brilliant pleasure craft, from the chugging sampans to the ferryboats — like the famous Star Ferry — that ply the inner harbor, maritime traffic in a port like Hong Kong is generally safe, pleasant and ubiquitous. This isn’t the Java Sea, where unseaworthy hulks routinely capsize and dozens perish. It’s not Bangladesh, where overcrowded packet boats heave up and down the riverine plains and cavalier crews play fast and loose with passenger safety at the cost of many lives each year. This is Asia’s World City, where a vast establishment of incorruptible bureaucrats and unsmiling inspectors ensures that maritime regulations are obeyed, and where nobody expects danger on the water. (PHOTOS: Hong Kong&#8217;s Worst Ferry Disaster in 40 Years) In that assurance and complacency, we have naturally created the perfect conditions for an accident, and as if obeying some terrible law of tragedy that states that death shall come when least expected, two vessels collided here on the night of Oct. 1 — China’s National Day — with the loss of 38 lives. One was a commuter ferry bound for Lamma Island, 30 minutes’ sail southwest of Hong Kong. The other was a vessel owned by a local<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=47883&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hong Kong&#8217;s Worst Ferry Disaster in 40 Years</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/10/02/hong-kongs-worst-ferry-disaster-in-40-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ariana McLaughlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Hong Kong on Oct. 1, two vessels carrying passengers and holiday makers on China&#8217;s National Day collided. One ship, bearing employees of Hong Kong&#8217;s main electric company, sank almost immediately, leading to at least 38 deaths. The incident is the worst such disaster in this metropolis of islands since 1971, when a ferry traveling between Macau and Hong Kong sank in a typhoon.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=47737&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Hong Kong Wants Nothing to Do with &#8216;Patriotism&#8217; for Now</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/09/10/why-hong-kong-wants-nothing-to-do-with-patriotism-for-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Ko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hong Kong government has backed down from its plan to implement “moral and national education” in public schools, in what is being construed as a major victory for civil society in the semiautonomous Chinese territory. The official about-face comes in response to hunger strikes by protesters and 10 days of impassioned but well-organized and peaceful student-led demonstrations that included a broad cross section of the population. The demonstrators forced the government to abandon a 2015 deadline for the introduction of compulsory patriotism classes that are seen as little more than brainwashing on behalf of Beijing. Momentum from the protests also appears to have favored pro-democracy parties in polls for Hong Kong’s legislature held Sunday, with democratic candidates winning three of five newly created seats and the democratic bloc holding on to its veto powers in the chamber. From Aug. 30, when a dozen activists began hunger strikes in tents outside the new government headquarters at Tamar — a short distance from the city’s main business district — the area’s plazas and grassy expanses became the focal point for thousands of black-clad supporters. The protests came to a head on Saturday, when crowds up to 120,000 by organizers’ estimates (the police put the figure at 36,000) gathered to chant slogans and listen to speeches denouncing national education. At times, something of a carnival atmosphere prevailed, with plenty of families in the crowd and candy floss handed out to children. Demonstrators asserted a fierce pride in Hong Kong’s cultural identity and freedoms. “If Injustice Is the Law, Rebellion Is a Duty,&#8221; read one poster, echoing the U.S. Confederate Civil War cry. (MORE: Hong Kong Divided over Plans for &#8216;Patriotic&#8217; Lessons in Schools) Although no specific national-education textbooks have been set, a teaching booklet issued in July by a government-funded organization contained material that praised China’s one-party system and disparaged U.S.-style electoral politics, provoking outrage and stoking widespread fears of Beijing’s gradual encroachment on Hong Kong’s autonomy. The election in March of the head of government, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, by a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=44167&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must-Reads from Around the World</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/09/06/must-reads-from-around-the-world-20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bullfighting on Live TV &#8212; Spanish public television aired a live bullfight Wednesday for the first time in six years, reports the Los Angeles Times, after Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy reversed a ban on live broadcasts of the age-old sport. In 2006, the Spanish government banned the live airing of bullfighting because it considered showing the killing of animals in the early evening, when many children watch TV, as inappropriate. &#8220;The return of bullfighting to Spanish public TV is a victory for its advocates, who recently convinced the government to reclassify the practice as an art form, protected by the Ministry of Culture, rather than as a sport,&#8221; it wrote. Chemical Hazard &#8212; The U.N. Environment Program warns in its latest report that health and environmental hazards from chemical substances are rising, according to VOA News. &#8220;Global Chemicals Outlook&#8221; indicates that the world is overwhelmed by a growing number of chemicals but only a small portion of the roughly 143,000 chemicals that are produced have been assessed for their effects on human health and the environment. UNEP suggests that the &#8220;sound management of chemicals could save millions of lives and provide an economic bonanza to nations worldwide,&#8221; wrote VOA. Quest for Affordable Housing &#8212; Bloomberg Businessweek reports that Hong Kong&#8216;s top leader, Leung Chun-ying, is trying to make housing more affordable in one of the world&#8217;s most expensive cities. Leung, who took office in July, said he would increase public housing units and start drafting legislation that gives preference to local Hong Kongers over buyers from mainland China to help bring down property prices that have increased by 85% since 2009, wrote Businessweek. Experts, however, note that Leung faces a tough balancing act of introducing more property curbs to stem prices without disrupting the local property market amid the economic slowdown. World&#8217;s Most Dangerous City &#8211; Harking back to TIME&#8217;s cover story on Karachi as &#8220;Pakistan&#8217;s Dark Heart,&#8221; Al Jazeera English examines its &#8220;endemic political violence and crime,&#8221; deeming it &#8220;the world&#8217;s most dangerous megacity.&#8221; Crime statistics compiled from governments, police departments<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=43572&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Global Occupy Movement Makes Its Last Stand in Hong Kong</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/08/30/the-occupy-movement-makes-its-last-stand-in-hong-kong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 07:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Jackson / Hong Kong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Occupy protests sprung up on Sept. 17 last year in New York City and spread around the world, there was little surprise that they reached Hong Kong. Like the Big Apple and London, the former British colony is a global financial center that thrives on the kind of cutthroat capitalism the Occupy movement decries. The U.S.-based Heritage Foundation has ranked the city the world’s freest economy for 18 consecutive years and — perhaps not coincidentally — its income inequality, by some measures, is the worst in the developed world. Remarkably, however, Occupy Central — Central is the name of the city’s main business district — remains the last visible holdout of the international movement. Although Hong Kong has its own political and civic freedoms enshrined in a miniconstitution, there is some irony that a “special administrative region” of authoritarian China, no less, finds itself as the final torchbearer for the 99%. The city’s Occupiers might also feel a certain pride that the site of this final resistance is not a public square (like Occupy Wall Street) or a cathedral concourse (as in Occupy London) but the very heart of Hong Kong’s financial system: the plaza that lies beneath the Norman Foster–designed headquarters of global banking giant HSBC. (PHOTOS: Protests and Camp Shutdowns Continue for Occupy Demonstrators) How much longer can the Occupiers hold out? Earlier this month, the Hong Kong High Court ordered them to vacate the site, which is both owned by HSBC and a public passageway, by Aug. 27. The 9 p.m. deadline came and went, and the protesters, mostly collegiate types, reportedly marked its passing in true Occupy style — with a drum circle. In stark contrast to the U.S. last Nov. 15 (when the NYPD forcibly cleared Occupy Wall Street) and the U.K. on Feb. 28 (when bailiffs and the Metropolitan Police evicted Occupy London), there were no riot squads itching to move in. The tacit grace period extended to the protesters may be about to end, however. Armed with a fresh court order, HSBC, in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=42758&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When the Chips Are Down: U.S. Casinos Discover Macau&#8217;s Murky Side</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/08/22/when-the-chips-are-down-u-s-casinos-discover-macaus-murky-side/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Jackson / Macau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Macau, an autonomous region of China situated 65 km west of Hong Kong, is the international king of gambling towns. Last year, revenues for its 30-plus casinos totaled $33.5 billion, more than five times those of Las Vegas. Only in recent months has the global financial gloom started to dent the territory’s gaming intake, which at times has grown 70% annually. Still, record turnover is expected again this year. These phenomenal numbers would seem to suggest that Las Vegas Sands, Wynn Resorts and MGM Mirage — the big American players that entered Macau after the former Portuguese colony liberalized its gaming industry in 2002 — have hit the jackpot. But don’t bet on it. The U.S. operators went into the gambling enclave on short 20-years-or-less gaming licenses with no guarantees of renewal. They are reliant on mainland-Chinese punters for business, which in turn puts casinos at the mercy of Beijing’s immigration controls (mainlanders need a travel permit to visit Macau) and currency restrictions (mainland visitors can only take just over $3,000 with them). This also forces them to compete for the lucrative custom of high rollers — responsible for as much as 70% of revenue — brought to Macau by infamously shady promoters known locally as “junkets” after the lavish gambling sprees they organize. Even more worryingly, allegations of improper, and in some cases illegal, conduct in the territory are coming back to haunt — and potentially hurt — U.S. operators on their home turf. Tough domestic anti-money-laundering laws and Nevada gaming-license controls can be revoked for malpractice in foreign jurisdictions, making Macau something of a poisoned chalice. (VIDEO: Poker Comes to China) To be successful in Macau, casino operators need to establish the right connections both locally and in the mainland. Efforts at cultivating this guanxi are at the root of the problems now facing the American firms there, with the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission currently conducting probes into whether Wynn Resorts and Las Vegas Sands have violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. In both cases, what began as internal company<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=41463&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spillover Effect &#8211; The New York Times reports on the &#8220;frightening&#8221; spillover of the conflict in Syria to neighboring Lebanon following the abduction Wednesday of more than 30 Syrians inside Lebanese territory in apparent revenge for the kidnapping of a relative inside Syria. It wrote: &#8220;Extended families with differing allegiances straddle both countries, and the use of hostages signaled the rise of abduction as a tactic by antagonists in the conflict.&#8221; Latin Quarter &#8211; A trio of the Guardian&#8216;s south American correspondents explore the continent&#8217;s economies that continue to boom amid the global gloom. The focus follows Brazil&#8217;s announcement of a $66 billion stimulus plan, which comes in addition to the money it will spend in preparation for the 2014 World Cup and the Olympics in 2016. &#8220;Growth, spending, enviably low public debt – it&#8217;s a far cry from the crisis-hit old world,&#8221; the newspaper said. Temperatures Rise &#8211; China&#8217;s state-run Global Times wades into the increasing furor over the detention by Japan of Chinese activists who landed Wednesday on contested South China Sea islands. &#8220;China should by no means accept Japan&#8217;s legal step,&#8221; it wrote. &#8220;No other compromise should be made by the Chinese side either.&#8221; The Japan Times said Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda told reporters: &#8220;We will handle this squarely in line with the law.&#8221; Rare Criticism &#8211; The Associated Press examines Aung San Suu Kyi&#8217;s silence towards the plight of the Rohingya, Burma&#8217;s Muslim minority, which has prompted &#8220;rare criticism of the woman whose struggle for democracy and human rights&#8221; has &#8220;earned her a Nobel Peace Prize, and adoration worldwide.&#8221; Analysts argue that her stance signals a new phase in Suu Kyi&#8217;s political career: &#8220;The former political prisoner is now a more calculating politician who is choosing her causes carefully.&#8221; Democracy Imperilled? &#8211; The BBC considers how &#8221;ethnic and sectarian divisions are limiting the Arab spring.&#8221; As has been most clearly demonstrated in Iraq and Lebanon, and more recently in the electorial success of Egypt&#8217;s Muslim Brotherhood and Tunisia&#8217;s Salafists, &#8220;the overwhelming desire thus far in democracies in Arab countries has been for representation,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=40466&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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