The Other Hong Kong Report 1991Yun-Wing Sung, Ming-Kwan Lee |
Contents
Constitution and Administration | 1 |
The Legal System | 17 |
Customs and Excise officers are searching a ship | 26 |
Political Parties | 55 |
The Implementation of the SinoBritish Joint Declaration | 77 |
Vietnamese Boat People | 103 |
Law and Order | 117 |
The State of the Economy | 135 |
Parents and children being given too little notice of the proposed | 274 |
Education | 275 |
Medical and Health | 311 |
Community Youth Club members carry a graphic message | 312 |
Social Welfare | 329 |
Social Welfare Department staff carry tubs full of rice and | 336 |
Elderly protesters stage a threehour sitdown demonstration | 342 |
Housing | 343 |
William Purves Chairman of Hongkong Bank addresses | 152 |
Monetary System and Banking Structure | 153 |
Trade and Industry | 169 |
Quality control is much in evidence in an electronic factory | 170 |
Members of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions | 210 |
Labour and Employment | 211 |
A potential applicant inquires about the British nationality | 234 |
Regulation of Monopolies | 259 |
Sacked Hong Kong Telecom workers on their protest march | 260 |
Some community leaders sit on the Light Rail Transit tracks at | 388 |
Transportation | 389 |
The Environment | 403 |
The Quality of Life | 421 |
The Media and Telecommunications | 447 |
Hong Kongs Economic Value to China | 477 |
The External Relations of Hong Kong | 505 |
Catholicism in Hong Kong | 527 |
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