Hong Kong

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is a city that more peop le live in than in all the rest of the world put together.

More peop le live in Hong Kong than in al l the rest of the world put together ... Ibid.

is a place where you can buy almost anything from a 13-year-old virgin to a 1,300-year-old T'ang Dynasty statuette; both are certified as genuine and, upon occasion, they may genuinely be genuine.

In Hong Kong you can buy almost anything from a 13 - year - old virgin to a 1,300 - year - old T'ang Dynasty statuette; both are certified as genuine and, upon occasion, they may genuinely be genuine. So why shouldn't you be able to buy a building inspector, policeman, tax inspector, or government factotum? That is the traditional view of a majority of the people in the Colony and, as the government has long since discovered, nothing - not even drug - addiction - is harder to break than the combination of centuries of deep - rooted Chinese Tradition and the laisser - faire, buccaneering tradition of the early British merchant - settlers and their successors. Tokyo

is the only major metropolis with a built-in time-fuse, a self-destruct mechanism set to explode in 1997 when the lease of the ceded New Territories expires and nine-tenths of the Colony reverts to China.

Hong Kong is the only major metropolis with a built - in time - fuse, a self - destruct mechanism set to explode in 1997 when the lease of the ceded New Territories expires and nine - tenths of the Colony reverts to China. In this unique city - port, East and West are intermixed to an unrivalled degree ; here, two disparate ideologies co - exist in a burgeoning cosmopolis that combines the magic and mystery and colour of the Orient with the wonders of the technological age. It is, at one and the same time, the city of Suzy Wong and supersonic jets, of sampans and hydrofoils, fortune - tellers and fortune - hunters . Hong Kong -

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