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thony Polsþ that have appeared in The Corresþondent.

Shortly after my arrival in Hong in 1989, I was befriended by Anthony, who was looking for someone to prime him on telecoms - a subject about which he knew nothing, but which, as a consultaît to a

Kong

telecoms company, he thought he should get to know. His gift for ayarn went well beyond consultancy, and I imagine the following tale could have been true.

As a reporter, Tony visited Thailand during a period of military rule in the 1970s. He was surprised to find in his hotelroomarare book: aBangkok

telephone directory. Being an inquisitive kind, heproceededto digest some of its finer contents.

His subsequent article listed Thailand's generals, from the five-stars to

at this stage is a rich collection of

forebears.

Sandra Burton has given us a re-

Tasker'

friend in Bangkok. According to Tony, it went something along these lines:

Clifton takes us to war in the Middle East. China looms large, of course, and is covered with pieces old and new. Burma's brutal recent past and the rise of Aung San Suu Kyi will be

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Sa and Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad makes afl appearance. Arthur Hacker looks into Britain's heritage - not just its past while Peter Seidlitz has sent a message from Beijing. Kate SØebb reminds us of East Timorin 197 4 and of Alghanisran.

James Miles examines howwe all covered Tiananmen Square in 1989.

There's more - Derek Davies, Steve Vines, Kad !Øilson, Dayid Garcia, Anthony Lawrence. The list goes on.

Still to come are the fiddly, per-

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reminiscence, serious debate and human int€rest. The work is heading for the coffee table as well as the social history archives, so the pictures @eing collected by Hugh Van Es) ane att integral part.

the book so far. Key characters in the Club's history have been directly approached and certain narrative chapters requested to maintain a basic structure.

Some of the stories recount old sagas or reflect on how a particular story was done at the time and where we went wrong, or right. Others are about key figures in our journalistic fraternity written by journalists who should know. Donald NØise's piece on Clare Hollingworth is delightful, and Barry Grindrod's fascinating account of our origins as a Club preserves for posterity the names of our

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from you, they've withdrawn the lot. " Cle ady, Anthony Polsþ ha d a faithful readership in Thailand.

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I was recently a guest on the Radio 3 Saturday morning show hosted by Jonathan Fenby, editor of tlre Soutlt Cbinø Morning Post. He asked about how the FCC will be handling the issues of press freedom and self-cen'We

I replied that the FCC will always support the right of reporters sorship.

to do their jobs without interference or fear. Everyone must be able to view the FCC as it has always been: nentral ground, where the free exchange of ideas will continue. AII speakers coming to the FCC must be able to believe that they are welcome to give their views before a non-partisan audience.

Lu Ping must feel as welcome as Martin lee and T.S. Lo as welcome as Chris Patten. Likewise, all members must feel that the Board of Governors have their interests at heart whenever public statements are made on contentious issues.

To help me implement policies that will reflect the wishes of the membership, the Board is planning to have an all-day Extraordinary Gen-

eral meeting to tackle some of the more difficult issues - those that reqtrire more time than is available during our monthly meetings. I'll be reporting on that in coming issues of Tbe Corresþond.ent. But, for now, we should be glad we live in interesting times.

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The rnan in the rniddle

was the beginning of an apparently testing time during which the eco_ nomic health of the long-troubled pa_ per tailed to improve.

Then, following a management turnover, Fenbywas one ofa succes_ sion of Obseruer edito¡s to lose his job. The announcement that he would be coming to Hong Kong came as a shock - and a pleasant surprise.

His liberal pedigree seemed to auglrr

<> r:ratfran Fent>¡r trolds dovzn one of ttre highest-pa.icl journalist's iobs an¡-u.here in ttre xzorldElut don't en\-y trirn, sa),/s Sirrron lfu¡iston Danzies - rW¡h¡z? Eiecause, a-s editor of tkre Sc>ttty'-t Cltitza A4c>rning p<>st, Fenb¡z a,lso tras ole of the tougkrest tasks in ttre l>r_rsiness-

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well.

Fenby was to be second in com_

mand

to editor-in-chief

paper's days

as a cash

- Major and a pages, a picture of John framed clipping of what must have been one of the more embarrassing

gaffes to appear in the South China Morning Post under Fenby,s watch; an article on Britafui's most notorious mass murderer of recent time, Fred West,

which the paper illustrated, not with rùØest, but with a picture of Lucien Bouchard, the newly elected premier of Quebec.

Fenby's personal st¡de is relaxed enough, but you sense there is plenty of stress in editing tlne Soutlt Cl¡inø Morning Post in the months before Hong Kong passes into the hands of the Chinese. Pitfalls abound.

Theworst of itforFenby,

53,

who

took overthe senior chair attheSCMp just over ayear ago, is that not only is the outgoing British ¡egime unhappy with the political stance the posl is taking, the incoming administration is likely to give him just as hard a time if it isn't obliquely doing so already.Given remarks by Lu ping, China,s top man for Hong Kong affairs,even a few paragraphs reporting strong words by democracy activists Martin Lee and Emily Lau could depending on - you whose interpretation believe

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respected newspapers in the wodd by

the likes of the late Robert ivtaxweti, RupeitMurdoch and even ofthe scrupu_

louslyliberal Katharine Graham, Kuotis a

the wodd. perhaps

it

needs

to

Fenbywalked through the door at the SCMP Tong Chong Street heaclquar_ ters, Amstrong had orchestrated the sacking of 25 SCMp staff, rþpingout the guts of the Sunday Morning post, a

seven-day-a-week

get Fenby into hot water once midnight June 30, 1997, passes.

And that doesn,t take into ac_ count the personal opinions on the function of journalism of the SCM? proprietor, Malaysian businessman Robert Kuok, who sits on the power_ ful Preparatory Commiftee that is smoothing the way for the launch of the Special Administrative Region.

Ceftainly, today,s tenants of Goy_ emment House, Chris patten and his team, have let it be known that they feelthe SCMP has failed to defend the line on potential infringements offree_ dom of speech and otherhumanrights issues.

Arguably, Fenby has given the free_ dom fighters in the clemocratic camp

seyeral excuses to revile him, espe_ ciallywhen, in earþ summer, he failed to swiftly respond to Lu,s remarks on the distinction between advocacy and fepofting. Fenby's fesponse was, he acknowledges, slow. ,,In the event, perhaps having waited longer than I should, I wrote one of the longest 1,200 words - editorials that the pa_ per has known and I fe el I defended the concept of press freedom,,, he says.

That didn't wash with London,s Sun day Te le gr aþþ which accused the Post of takingan editorial position that was "mealy-mouthed" and of having "meekly accepted the directive ,'.

Fenby's defence, as reported by the Telegrøþlt, was thar ,,the line is very fine between finding a way of dealing with the reality thar is going ro happen and appeasement. 'W'e arc all

under the shadow of Munich.', A later response by the affable Fenby to such accusationsismilder.,,Itwouldn,thelp me oranyone else to ignore where the

paper will be in July 1997 . you can,t escape that."

His unstated caseisthatÍt]ne SCMp doesn't at least show some signs of being able to accept the realities of a new, andprobablyless friendly, regime,

not only could it come under

NØhile he has not been able to replace all the lost bodies oîtine Sun_ day Post, Fenby has worked to hold tlre ship together ancl, with a cetÍain justifiable pride, declares rhat the Sunday circulation hasn't fallen since the first week he arrived.

VØith a weekday circulation that oscillates somewhere around 110,000 - although probably ar least half of

be,

establishment should be playing guarcl_

ian to the media."

It was just over three years ago, in June 1993, rhar Fenby took up the post of editor of Britain,s oldest news_

p^pet, the impeccably llbetal

Ttce

Obseruer, one of the half-dozen most prestigious jobs in Fleet Street. That

in June 1993, Stephen Glover, his former colle ague at t|rre In d ep e n d e nt during its most sparkling months, described Fenby's political leanings.

"If Mr Fenby were a politician,', said Glover, "he would be rubbing shoul-

ders

with the likes of Christopher

Patten on the Left of the Tory party.,, So, to be less than loved by as

kindred spirit as the Goyemor of

Hong Kong must be a galling, even though Fenby, would be rhe last person to admit such a thing. Indeed, it must be galling for the clubbable editor not to be a favoured guest in Govemment House and, hence, privy to the fin de siecle manoeverings within Britain's last major colony.

in_

transliteration of some Chinese names

into English characters.,, Fenby to Margaret Thatcher on Hong Kong matters and a man perceived to be a firm pro-Beijing spokesman, has been invited ro ioin tlcle SCMp board of directors.

Fenby is careful how he answers questions about the new board mem_ ber. "His appointment makes no difference to the editorial inclependence of the paper," he says. ,,'We have run several pieces about him in the past _

two within my time here. And don,t forget that he has had plenty of expe¡ience of Downing Street and Beijing. ,, Fenby denies that the SCMpboard,

has a proactive role in the editorial policy of the paper. ,,rù7'e have had no directionfrom Robert Kuok orthe board

Other changes haye been less con_

troversial. A stand-alone Friday enter_ tainment guide has been launched; the "Markets" business section has ac_ quired more punch. And there is now a daily fax version of the paper and advanced on-line services are in the planning stages.

Apparently, however, the posf,s future is more dependent on keeping costs on a tight rein and the incoming Chinese govemment on side while retaining some credibilitywith the read_ ers. That,

it hardly needs saying, will

not be an easy task.

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In terms of the nuts and bolts of joumalism,

of the Soutb Cbina Moming Posf should

Fenby is eminently qualified for his job at rhe top

be a firstclass organisa-

tion man and one with a keen nose for news.

Also on his CV: Vietnam War correspondent and Paris corre-

of tlre Post It was the often-dismissive Glove¡ who said that Fenby is ,,a newsman, not of the foot-

in-thedoor school, but of the expository Reuters/ Economßt academy. He cannot only tell you what happened, but he can tell

youwhyithappened. He

spondentofTÞeEconomíst. And he is the au-

thor of a successful book on corruption M^ster of analJ/sß.

is a master of the news analysis."

As the youngest ever editor-irchief

of Reuters,

as former deputy editor of Ihe Guardíøn and as a founder member of much-admired the Indeþendent team in London, the jazzJoving editor

ac_

knowledges that there have been ,,mi_ nor problems" with th€ policy, but, by andlarge, it has worked out well.

A frantcophíle in Hong Kong 'W'må:tiH,T.il:äî,"*:;

hear,y

political pressure, it could lose the mas_ sive advertising revenues provided by proBeijing commercial interests.

Fenby adds that he wasn,t srrr_ prised when the rest of the Hong Kong establishment didn,t immedi_ ately come to the support of the local press. "The press just isn,t at the fore_ front of the minds of the Hong Kong establishment," he says. ,,Anyway, it might not be a good thing rhar the

hands-offproprietor.

But did Kuok order this year,s

troduction of Chinese characters? No, says Fenby. It was a suggestion made

by David Armstrong. ,,He recognised there were some problems with the

cowoftheNews

Corp empire. Less than a week after

Fenby in tlrepost's neu) T.1iþo þIønt.

Around him are the bits and pieces of a lifetime in journalism mock front

that, given lhe overt interferénce in the day-to-day affairs of some of the most

strong, himself a hangover from the

effectively creating

in his cluttered cubicle in euarry Bay.

on anyparticularissue,,' he says. He adds

to be one of the bestpaid editorial positions, at aîy level, an),where in

David Arm_

publication. onathan Fenby sits

these are at a discounted price - the paperremains hugelyprofitable (forthe year endingJune 1995, net profit was HK$5SO million). Financial anaþts re_ maining bullish on its future as a China player. Andwith the closure of the&ast_ erut Express, - a paper Fenby refers to as a "niche publication" way - the should be clear for circulation growth.

The SCMp editorship is repured

within the United

Na-

tionsagency, UNESCO. Given the above, it seems a good bet that once the dust has settled on

post-colonial Hong Kong, the

fmncophile Fenby will be writing a book on "ks Evenements de Ig97".

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police had been rounding up dissidents in the capital. rù(¡hat I did not know was that they were also looking out for foreign journalists who had

'You are a smallpotato' One corr1ttr:y, ts/o s)r'sterras- l\Iicls Rrrfford, ttre Asian correspond,e¡t of Lorrdorr's 7-Vte Surzcictjt Tirne.s leopes Ctrina-'s sJrstern for tran<lling jor-rrnalists doesla't cofite to Horrg l(ong afte.r L997 - Here's his account of trov,z he x.as treated by Ctrina.,s sectlriÇz forces-

interviewed dissidents in the past. My name was on a blacklist. One of the men who burst into my ro omhad a lax from the hotel which he hurriedlyput in his pocket when he saw me looking at it. It gave my name, passport details and room number.

'Weeks later, I wrote to the manager of the Jianguo and asked them whether tuming over people to the security services was routine policy.

He insisted that the hotel had done nothing wrong and that I must haye done something seriously wrong to upset the Chinese police.

Five hours after my "arrest", I was lying on a hospital trolley with four PSB officers hanging round waiting

nervously to see how badly I was injured. Amemberof themedical staff in a white coat prised open my eyelids and shone a torch at my pupils, pronouncing me fit. I had suffered only a mild concussion and bruising from my collision with the door. I was put back in the van and taken to the PSB foreign

3 à

S I

Ø ='

\Yf YtY

f-,", do vou do when four Chi-

and tried dialling the British embassy,

nese Pubuc Jecurlry lrureau officers walk uninvited into your hotel

the man in unifo¡m snatched the receiver and pushed me down on the

room in Beijing, demand your passport, then announce they are taking you for interrogation? I found myself

five star hotel and shoved me in

in this position one evening in May last year while I was writing an article for Tbe Sunday Times.

service lift. In the background, I could hear a string quartet playingMozartto businessmen in the Jianguo cafeteria.

You might do what I did: ask to see their identification and authorisation,

and insist on speaking to your em-

bed. Then they grabbed my arms and

hauled me down the corridor of the

A white van was parked near

a

a

side exit of the hotel. They shouted to the driver to start the engine. As they

I

Square.

about how Chinese doctors were treating leprosy and other skin diseases

with Thalidomide, the drug banned in the \Vest in the 1970s because of the terrible deformities produced in babies of women who had taken it to ease the nausea ofpregnancy.

The Chinese medical profession argued that a potentially useful drug had been wasted because it had been mis-prescribed. Nevertheless, there was evidence that the curativeproperties of Thalidomide, heralded by some

bassy. "We are the law here; you have no rights, so shut up," said one of the men in dialogue so wooden it sounded

fearing I was about to become one of

in China as a new "wonder"

it was memorised from an old Gestapo film. "Do as you are told

China's notorious Sbizong Rei, tl:re "disappeared". One of the men grþped me in a choke hold while another two

were being exaggerated. The previ-

as though

and do not give us any trouble."

He was wearing a PSB uniform and

wire rimmed glasses. Three others, stocþ and casually dressed, said they were plain-clothes policemen. They

were accompanied by the security manager of theJianguo Hotel who had

used a master key to open the door.

When I picked up rhe telephone THD CORRf,SPOII|IIDNT August 1996

tried to push me into it,

resisted,

dragged me. My spectacles were ripped from my face. Unable to se€, I struck my head on the edge of a door, and dropped to the floor in a cJaze.

"Remember that you are in China now, " was the last thing I heard one of them say.

I had, in fact, been for the past three days. I was working on a story

drug,

ous dayl had spent at aleper colony on

the banks of theYangtse River, where the lepers mistakenly believe d it could heal their - incurable defomities.

I was also investigating- disturbing reports that Thalidomide was being sold

on the black market to unsuspecting patients.

Coincidentally, t99

5;

ll

Continuing to translate, the inter-

preter said that the passport and the business visa inside were obvious forgeries. Both were genuine, and I suggested they could check with rhe Brirish embassy, hoping this would bring a consular

it

was l4ay 24,

days before the sixth anniyer-

sary of the Tiananmen massacre. The

For three hours, I was interrogated standing to attention on a mat.

An older policeman who I took to be senior in rank sat at a small writing table in front of me and took notes. If I fidgeted or folded my arms, a policeman reached forward and pulled my arms by my sides. "'Who were you meeting here [in Beijingl ?" said the senioi policeman. I replied truthfully that I was writing a story on leprosy and had also planned

to interview a businessman who

owned two Ferraris and epitomised China's brand of get-rich-quick capitalism. They didn't believe me. "'We know you were meeting troublemakers, " said the

policeman. "Don't waste

our time. 'Where is your list of contacts." I shook my head.

"You are well known to us, Mr Rufford, " the officer continued. "You have cometo Chinabefore.'We know why you are here." Clearly they didn't, but they were not going to accept my explanation. My luggage was brought in, and they searched through it in front of me. The stockiest of the plain clothes officers picked

official to the rescue.

stocþ man stepped forward and whacked me across the face with the passport in his right hand. He repeated this each time I asked for The

consularassistance. Stubbornly, I said

I would only answer questions with an embassy representatiye present.

For tlÌree trours, I .wzas interrogated standing to a-ttention o1a a. rna"t. If I fidgeted or folded ta:LY

interests section near Tiananmen

ì'

Nick Rufford: ltís nørne ìs on a stoþ list.

up my passport and grinned as he looked at it.

"This would not fool a three-year old child," he said through the inrerpreter. "You will go to jail for between five and serren years for this."

a.frfl.s,

a.

policerna-n rea-ctred forqzard and pulled rn)z a-rrras b¡z rnlz sides-

one of the policemen came back, a friendly expression holding my wallet. He showed me that all the money was still there, and then counted out three hundred US dollars which he said was for an air ticket.

Four hours later I was escorted through the courtyard to a waiting four-wheel drive vehicle. Flanked by PSB guards on either side and front and back, I was driven at high speed to Beijing international airport, and escorted through immigration and customs to the loading bridge of an Air

with

China jet.

By six o'clock, 21 hours after my "norLaffest", I was flying back to Hong Kong, after being told as I departed that I had entered China illegally on a business visa. It was a sharp lesson about working as a journalist in China. .ùØhen the British embassyfound outwhat had

happened, they complained

to

the

Chinese Foreign Ministry in Beijing that I had been denied consular access; so far, they have received no reply.

The police made sure my name and passport details were entered on the immigration computer at Beijing airport. I am also on the Lo Wu border crossing computer and doubtless on computefs at most main entry points into China. A colleague fro mtlrre Daily Telegrøplt wlro travelled to Guangzhou

recentþ on the train informed me that mynaméis at the top of a list carried by immigration police.

don'thave to tellthe embassy

Luckily, China's immigration

because you are not under affest, " said the older policeman, who spoke Eng-

lish. "Anyway, they don't care about you. You are a small potato. Even if

checks arefar fromfoolproof, andl have since been back to China on four occasions, much to the annoyance of the Chinese embassy in Lon-

you are innocent, it will take two yeafs to sort everything out, and you will be

don. Getting into the country rhis way means using non-computerised

in jail for that time."

checkpoints. These are fast diminishing in number, as Harry lØu dis-

"tùZe

They sat me in a chair and left me

there overnight and throughout the

following morning. Three guards stayed in the room with me, taking tums to sle ep and prodding me awake when I dozed o11, repeating occasionally with glee the English expression they had just learned: "You are a small potato."

In the morning there was a change of guards. An immaculately dressed policeman stood at the open

door but did not come in. I was expecting to. be transferred to a prison cell, but at around midday

covered to his cost when he was caught trying to enter China last year ftomKazakhstan.

Joumalists who enter China on business visas, as I did, run the risk of being caught, roughed-up and thrown out. Nevertheless, it

is

probably still the

only way to report properþ on the many things China does not want the outside wodd to see, especially its gulags and orphanages. Anyone who wants more advice on how to find "gaps" in the bamboo curtain can give me a call.

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1

back legal action by individual air crew for damages against the players. That

In the hot seat five time over!

met with grunts of approbation.

Meanwhile, my mobile was buzzing with calls from tlre Neuts of tbe Woñd, demanding to know where their photos were. I repeatedly called The Jump's PR woman, Shanali Rodrigues, with the same question. She, in tLlm, rangtheSCMP, since two prints of a set of six obtained from the bar had been published that moming, but had not

Paurl Gasco;zne and his England footb-¿ll tearla-lTrates left a trail of destrr-rction behind thern as the¡z ¡2assed th.ror-rgtr Hong l(ong. -Alrd not>ody szas rrrore frazzledand shaken u12

been retumed. The Post's Sundaymaga-

zinesaidafterwards that The Jump had

than FCC freelance Ou¡en flugtres, xvho finished r-rp filing for no less than firze London tabloids.

sent the pictures in the hope of getting them printed in Snaparazzi.

I waited at TheJump for two hours,

s

hoping that every figure that wafted

è

Mirror's foreign editor sounded like he had lost his breakfast while surueying his tabloid rivals that morning. "'W'e've taken a he Døily

bath on the Gazza story!" he shrieked down the telephone. My response was uncharitable, my sensibilities numbed by five days chasing the story of Eng-

land's soccer players behaviour on tour in Hong Kong.

Before the game, I'd been asked to watch for trouble caused by travelling Englancl supporters. No one said anything about trouble caused by travelling England players. Once news of the their night out at The Jump was compounded with the eadier revelation of how they had redecorated a Cathay Pacific 747, I found myself working simultaneously for five tabloids as the ravening news hounds of Fleet Street smelt the whiff of scandal.

T}ee Mimor began by wanting to know what the Hong Kong Football Associationthought about the in-flight

antics of the Englandplayets.The Mail

on Sunda.y wanted a blow-by-blow description of events onboard CX25l

from the cabin crew. By this time, though, they were holed up in a hotel near Heathrow. From past experience, I knew it would be fatuotts to reply that it might be easier for them to drive 40 minutes froin a mid-London office to cloorstep the stewardesses. "I'11

s sQ ü

Ouen Hughes re-enacts

Tbe

Jumþ's dentist's clr4ir treatnxent Íor tbe

TEE G0Rßf,SPOMIENT August 1996

SLtn.

past was the messenger sent to pick the

Õ

once celebratedforhis close, personal relationships with a number of Cathay aircrew for help. Sadly, his black book was under lock and key at home.

By now the shutters were firmly

locked around Cathay's corporate doors, even though their man in London delighted in baiting the English FA. C.F. Kwan's answer to most of my questions was a pitiful "I don't know. " Afler four telephone conversations, he must have gone into a darkened room to lie down, instructing LizKing to say "'Sle really can't say anlthing at this stage" on his behalf. A reqttest for a formal interview with the crew was met with the suggestion I write a fea-

ture about how Cathay train cabin staff. Another time perhaps.

Then Cathay tried saying the story was sub judice because their law)'ers had sent a letter to the English FA, asking for compensation - a hiCtìly unusual interpretation of the contempt laws.

Things really began to heat up after an enterprising punter sold pictures of the team at The Jump for several thousand pounds. Tll.e Netus of tbe World and the Sun rungwitlrin

five minutes of each other, both promising the earth for an exclusive interview with the staff of The Jump.

That evening, manager Clark Martin

check it out," I replied breezily, silently cursing my Asia News partner,

and his team still had time free to talk

Andrew Laxton, for lounging on a Bar-

appointment.

bados beach while I fretted over Heathrow hotel numbers.

I tracked a former South Cbina Morning Posl colleague in London,

to reporters who hadn't

three-deep cordon around the bar as they waited lor an audience.

With the Neuts of tbe World still

three days away from publication, there was no point being coywith the Sun, I reasoned. The gravelly-voiced staffer on the newsdesk in Wapping chuckled as I told him how to mix a Flaming Lamborghini and what vintage Dom Perignon sold for in Causeway Bay. My visit to The Jump came four days after the England team's;

dering if the barman was working for t};:e People's Daíly.

It finally emerged the pictures had never left the Posf becallse they were locked in the receptionist's desk. I

nevertheless I was quoted as an "eye-

witness" in the splash the next day which included a picture of me "doing

guard

aGazza" in the now infamous dentist's

chair. The shot was stunted up by freelance snapper Gareth Jones.

The S un story wiped the fl oor with the opposition, as the Mirror's foreign editor acknowledged. He was on the line soon after daybreak in London; even the hard-assedNetus of tlce Woild

staff sotncled hurt. I made a mental note to up my fee from tlre Sun.

On the clay of tlee Sun splash, I a call at five in the morning from

arrived breathless in a taxi and found a

to open the drawer. I ran to

Reuters, watched the photos as they were wired to London and filed copy to tl¡e Mirror and the M az7. There was time for a lengthy discussion with a

Swedish journalist who was baffled why I would not wire him the same pictur€s the Neus of the World were getting. I was asleep before my head hit the pillow.

The postscript to this tale is predictable. TheLondon newspapers' fury

took

of righteous moral indignation against

tlre Daily Mail night newsdesk. FCC member Chris Dobson, a Hong Kong stringer for tlre Møil, was pleading he had a previous engagement; my name

Gazzaand Co. disappeared as soon as England beat Scotland. On a personal note, other Hong Kong freelancers will not be surprised to leam I did not get a single byline for the reams of material I filed. Or that much of what was ordere d was not used. Or that I'm still waiting for most of my payments.

was ftirther down a yellowing list of contacts.

By micl-afternoon I was atKaiTak

Within 24 lnottrs, reporfers and film crews from the BBC, Tbe Times, Indeþe ndent, television news and everyone bar Xinhua were forming a

ban the England team from flying with them; I offered a line that Cathay might

made an

for tlne MaíL. Ltthis point, Chris Dobson called TheJump to say he too was now pan of the Møil team, and tlr.e Mirror' s too. I called fof a restorative beer, won-

neady wept. Thank God I'd always been polite to the office assistants at the Posf. One took pity on me after I

trying unsuccessfully to interview rettrrning crew members from CX25l.

Tlae Møil On Sundøy news editor wanted to know if Cathay was going to

Tb e

I met yet another hack, recently axecl from the Ectstern Exþress who was also working pictures up from the Post.

Tbe utny tbe tabloids stuu it.

E@ Owen Hughes andAnd¡ew Laxton, partners in contribute to several lJritish newspa-

Asia News,

pers. Atleast they dicl until this article appearecl

August 1996 TEE

C0RRf,SPONDENT

The man the diplomats fear

probablymeet some of the 1,500 correspondents accredited to the UN. Of the se, about 200 at most probably drop in weekly for interviews with UN delegates or offìcials.

ful of others

He had a- rosz srith lVlao's urife and orrtdrank Zlt<>tt Enlai- Arìd nos/ kre's a thorn in tkre side of the ûalrltitLrdes of l?orral?ous people uzho qzalk the corridors of the fJnited l\Tations headqr-rarters I(errin Sinclair relJorts on ttre Etrit journalist -vrzho seerns to ttrrirze on vrzinding4 people up-

where he lives in the basement of a refurtlished church. "I walk over and it's just like going to the office. Then you see the tourists streaming in and

I

that brings you back to realty, that I'm s

\

þ ñ lan Williams beads tbe once-moribund

UN Corre-

sþondents' Associa.tion, uthìle journalist Ielei Leldløu uorks UN SeØetarieû and edíts tbe

T - \ù/illiams has a snug bolt hole I on the third floor o[ the United

- and into an argument about proletarian English novels with Madame

Nations building in New York. There, the president of the UN Correspondents' Association holds court and welcomes people he loathes, such as representatives of the Bosnian Serb

Mao, Jiang Qing

"I won"

a

- "I survived." youthfu I 20 -y ear old atthe time,

\ùØilliams sported fashionable

flowing

pudlian, who jokinglyclaims tobework-

locks. As he jousted verbally with an increasingly angry Dragon Iady, Madame Mao's famous temper started to fray. She ended the exchange by snap ping: "Aryway, you've got long hair and

a ing on his memoirs - called "I was is the teenage Maoist revolutionary" newspaperman who gave UN Secretary General Boutris Boutris Ghali the title of "Mr Boo Boo." He's also the

look like aCrl." Years later, as details emerged of the horrors of the Cultural Revolution, whichwas at the time taking its dreadful toll,IØilliams realised he had got off

scribe who penned the memorable description of Madeleine Albright

much more lightly than millions of others whose opinions varied from those of the $íhite Boned Demon.

newsagency.

The cudy-haired, fast-aging Liver-

-

the doughty, formidable US representative at the UN - as "Madam Halfbright" .

So the frenetic freelancerwho cov-

ers the wodd body for publications rangingfromArab dailies to Fleet Street heavies to Tbe Ba.þtist Tirues happlJy admits he is abouthalfwaytowards his ultimate ambition; being the most hated man in the United Nations building.

Williams is an engaging extroYeff, and a little milder these days than when he led student demonstrations in the 1960s that had him expelled from Liver-

Inthe sevenyears since he has been NewYork-based freelancer at the UN's distinctive East River headquarters, rù(/illiams has built up a potent core of contacts, not only among UN staffers (who secretþadmire his stringent criticism of the organisation's awesome bureaucracy) but among leading international politicians and diplomats.

As he heads enthusiastically into a

middle-age, the one-time Maoist retains a healthy disrespect for pompos-

pool University. His welþublicised

ity and cant. He

embrace of Maoism gained him aprized invitation to China during the darkyears of the country's self-isolation. He was

and pretentious, got into a New Year's

is probably necessary for covering what most correspondents call The Giggle Factory. Listening to Williams as he describes the coy ploys of a desperate Britain and France to cling to their sacred places on the Security Council is pure entertainment.

He infuriates China's representa-

Eve drinking sessionwithZhou Enlai

tilres and top UN officials by constantly

somewhat bemused

to find himself

amongVIPleftists in the Forbidden City.

The engaging, fast-talking n€wsman, who specialises in enraging the haughty

-

fHE cORRf,SPOltllENT Äugust 1996

including all maj or wire

seryices - are atfached there full time.

He admits to being blase about his unique workplace, a short stroll from

Busy freelancer

As

-

'W'illiams and ahand-

is

totally cynical, which

uoild

for

tbe

body's internal neuspaþer.

pressing forTaiwanese reporters to be granted accreditation - something Beiiing has fought against with gdm vigour. There's nothing political about his stance; Taiwanese reporters are honest joumalists and should be allowed entrance into the body which is supposed

to reflect the entire planet, he says.

Williams bluntly calls the Bosnian

Serb administration murderous war criminals, yet battled successfully to

get a reporter from its newsagency accredited to the UN. Once the Serb got his ID card stamped,'Williams was promptly shooting off angry faxes to General Secretary Boutris Ghali. See-

ing the UN approved a reporter from an illegal regime which the organisation did not recognise and which was at that time holding UN troops captive and butchering refugees, why didn't they extend the same courtesy to repofters from newspapers and television stations from Taiwan - a democncy thatwas one of the wodd's most successful economies?

This prompted the customary outrage from China's representatives and placedUN officials in an awkward hole.

Get the picture why the Brit is not the top pin-up man on the East River?

Amiable aird relaxed, 'W'illiams

welcomes visiting joumalists and correspondents from the FCC. The UNCA office on the second floor of the building - past strict security controls are open for use, if advance affangements are made. "'We've got few facili-

ties, but you're welcome," he

says.

Visitors can get a cup of coffee and

privileged to work political landmark."

it

a major global

Downstairs in the UN bookshop, his own hilarious book, Tbe U.N. for Beginners is on sale (US$9.) This is an illustrated lampoon that seeks to tell what the UN does, with pointed

cartoons, panels of comments and a delightful load of healthy cynicism.

Lelei Let¿lau, the huge Samoan jour-

nalistwho edits the UN's own in-house newspaper, remarks drylythat anybook that starts with an illustration of a cartoon character urinating on the UN charter is likely to give an alternative and unofficial view of the organisation.

The two men are close friends, which must be sometimes difficult for the I IN official and which says something for the organisation's tolerance.

Lelalau is known to many Asian-

in Samoa, he went to university in New Zealand, where he worked for local papers. In based journalists. Born

the 1970s, while Williams was arguing literature withJiang Qing, Lelalau led a team of professional Polynesian dancers and a culture group aroLrnd Asia.

Back in 1971, he set fire to th€ Hong Kong FCC. It was at the start of his career as cultural ambassador from Polynesia when he and avery motley

bunch of Maoris, Tongans, Cook

Is-

landers and Samoans staged afire dance on the 15th floor of the old Suthedand

A rtrariner's story Frank H¡rdes, one of tkre FCC's great a.rrd color-rrful <:llrara<:ters, has died- In this tril>r-rte, -qzhich szas delayed b¡. ttre fact t|1at Fra-1k's .w.ife, Cyr¡,-tfria, s/as r-rnqzell, Ctrades Vreatherill outlines ttre life of a trlre adrzenturerrank Hydes was often described British to the core - conselvative but adventurous, with a firm belief in the sensiblevalues oflife. Hewas bom by the Thames, in that most English of as

counties, Suraey,

n

1923. At an eafly age

he developed a love for the water that stayed with him all his life.

He and Cynthia were a happy and affectionate couple who met and mar-

ried in Washington nearþ 30 years ago. "He was so handsome," says Cynthia. 'Just like David Niven. tWe just fell for each other." After their wedding, the couple setoff onaroundthe-world honeymoon. rWhen Wodd Warll broke out, Frank was sent to Algeria as an RAF navigator.

He had many fond memories of those dramatic days and of his other adventures with the air force and retained an interest in its activities.

After the war, Frank was appointed regional manager (Far East) forVickers, later to become the British Aircraft Company. For four years from 1969, he \ /as based in Hong Kong, selling attcraft worth mil-lions of dollars to regional operators.

He also became vice-commodore of the Aberdeen Boat Club. Although

Jack Reynolds, a former FCC member and NBC correspondent who was

based

in

Japan, Hong Kong and the

United States for more than 30 years,

fuel instead of paraffin was used to

working for an affìliate in NewYork, he

soak the torches. Exuberantly, the Islanders huded their blazing brands

became Asia manager for ABC News in

started to smoulder. All present, led by then President Derek Davies, repaired downstairs for several stiff drinks. Ah,

the old days.

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Garden now is. He was quite

player,

a

as a scorebook from earlier years shows. Seventy-four not out and six wickets for 20 were among the highlights of his best season. He was also a keen snooker player, and he loved chess, bridge and dice.

Ever since those earþdays inVashington, there was always a boat in

Frank's life. For awhile, he and Cynthia lived in Cyprus, from where they loved to cruise the Mediterranean coast.

A

job

as

thefìrstgeneralmanagerof

the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club brought him back to Hong Kong in 1974. Latel his love of the sea continued through The Boating Centre, Hong

Kong's first boating retail company.

Frank's ashes were scattered at sea rtear a navigation light near Aberdeen.

"It was where he once ran aground during a race

,

" says

Cynthia with

a

smile

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House premises.

It had been a long lunch. For reasons too hazy to recollect, helicopter

upwards, whereupon the ceiling

the premises were not much more than a hut in those days, Frank took the job very seriously. "He was down there at 7.3O in the morning," says Cynthia. "He loved it."

Frank played for the Hong Kong Cricket Club , which in those days had its ground in Central, where Chater

process that led to US recognition of China. Jack was in the press parLy t}rar. accompanied President Nixon on his groundbreaking trip to Beijing in1972.

Af[er reporting from the

died in Fairfax, Virginia, af the age of 62.

Jack joinedNBCinthe

1950s.

After

1967. He produced and reported on conflicts in Vietnam, Cambodia, El Salvador and Lebanon, and covered general news stories inlapan and Korea. ln 197 l,he accompanied a US table tennis team to Beijing in what became known as ping-pong diplomacy the

-

Penta-

gon, he retired from NBC in 1987 and founded Jack Reynolds Communications, a media consulting and production company, in !Øashington DC. Jack helped organise the October 7, 1995, reunion in Arlington, Virginia, of some 2OO correspondents who had covered conflicts from'SØodd War II to Bosnia.

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ÎH[

GORRXSPOIUIXIIT

In the name of freedom lFhey .v\zere arrarr.ged in haste. Etut the first IJr-rrnan Rigkrts Press Alrzards brougtrt in a uzealttr of erìtl:ies. Ttrey also displa)red ttre depth of feeling in Hong l(ong al>out freedorrr of ttre rnedia- lfodd Crou¡ell szas at the avrzards lunctreon at ttte Club-

in four news and feature writing categories for work in the Soutb Chinø Morning Post and the Før Eøstern Econornìc Reuieut. ln all, 35 separate prizes - first place and certificate of merit - were handed out to Chinese and Englishlanguage journalists. They were chosen from 220 submissions from 115 journalists. "Anyone walking away with one of these awards knows that he has been judged by exacting standards," said Francis Moriarry, of RTHK, who serves as chairman of the FCC's Freedom of the Press committee.

But the purpose of the exercise

was not just to honour journalistic excellence. These were, after all, human rights press awards. The broken chain symbolising freedom was emblazoned on the plaques handed out to the first-place winners. It is all part of preparations the Club is making to help defend the rights of journalists to freely report the news in

Hong Kong after the handover.

The awards were organised in conjunction with the Hong KongJour-

nalists Association and Amnesty International. "'W'e want to contest the view that human rights is a currency expended

only sparingly in the developing wodd, otherwise it will undermine economic success," saidJacqueline Leong, a bar-

rister who served as a judge on the English-language panel. Said Robyn Kilpatrick of Amnesty International:

"We hope to erìcourage strong

editorial and broadcasts and see less self-censorship."

A popular winner at the lunch-

of Vietnamese refugees at the

eon was Larry Feign, who took first place in cartooning for his scathing series on organ transplants in China, the last of his efforts to appear before his strip, "The Wodd of Lity Wong", was discontinued in the Postlastyear.

Significantly, he also received first-

Whitehead detention centre did what

place honours from the Chinese panel,

eyery award-winning news photo should do. "It captured the essence of the moment," said photographer Hugh Van Es, known for capturing a few moments himself. The picture showed the refugee stabbing himself rather than be returned to Vietnam.

"The issue was whether he should be sent back home against his will."

suggesting that his brand of humor was appreciated equally by our Chinese colleagues as by expatriates in the territory.

Jonathan Mirsþ, a judge and East Asia Editor lor Tbe Times of London, reminded everyone that it still dangerous to report on China. He asked eve-

Judges and Príze-utinners gatber after tbe anuørds

famous local charity making big profits from tenements for the eldedy. The plight of teenage offenders incarcerated for undetermined sentences with hardened n expose of

a

criminals. The insecurities that stateless minorities in Hong Kong face

Correspondents' Club These were just a fbw of the hardhitting stories honoured at a luncheon. Fergal Keane ofthe BBC received top honors in broadcasting for his moving documentary about homeless

children in Mongolia's capital city,

with the transfer of sovereignty in

Ulan Bator. "The produc€r evenwent

1997. Slhoever said that Hong Kong's press is cowed by the prospects of the pending handover to China should have attended the first annual Human Rights Press Awards presentation

down into the sewers to interview children," said Bryce Mclntyre, lecturer of journalism at the Chinese University, who served as a judge.

"The film successfully integrated writing, photography, and editing."

ceremony June 15 at the Foreign TtrD GORRf,SPOlfIlElfT Àugust 1996

The winning nev/s photograph

One of the big winners was freelancer Alison Nadel, who took honors

ryone to continue to remember Xi

Yang, the Ming Pao reporter jailed for 12 years for reporting banking

1: Yu Cbung Yin (SCMP) r,uitlt Hugb Van

Es.

Robyn Kilþatr¿ck of AmnesQ holds tbe þboto

2: Robert Ng (SCMP) utith Hugb Van Es J: Jacqueline Leong, a n EttglìsbJanguage judge,

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information, Beijing considers state secrets. "We'd give him a prize if we could," said Mirsþ.

sense, the hard-hitting pieces symbolised what a free press really is all about:

protecting everyone's human rights.

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"Last Request of a Bank Robber"

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China

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Student Rights"

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Alison Nadel, Becþ Kee LokVong Sunday Morning Post: "The Age Barrier"

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AprWMay The Kitchen

t times it looked as if it

was second only to the new airport project. The club was stripped down to its bare wiring in a top-tobottom (or was it bottom-to-top?) renovation job. And through it all, manager Bob Sanders and his staff kept serving meals and drinks.

It was all a bit like the Wodd War II

blitz of London, when things kept going despite the havoc cattsed by German bombing raids. As one wit commented, Ted Thomas, who was on one of his early marriages in those 19 4O and 19 41, would have identified well with the spirit

testing times of

shown by staff and members.

On the following pages are pictures by f)avid Thurston and Hutlert Van Es. They show what went on while you were busy drinking at the bar. sff August 1996 THD

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to new LigLr, to ,n""plor"J deptLs. Or sirnply relax enjoying úre sun urrJ tL" o""u' br""z"r.

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on )zolrrself b5z brea,king )zçlLrf journey f<>r a, feuz da¡rs' R-&R-

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very once in a while the trip back to yonr home has to be made, pedraps for awedding,

a

golden

wedding anniversary or yolrr child's graclllation

da1'.

!Øhatever the reason,

youknow thatyouwill be expected to visit, visit, visit until you can talk no more. Leave Great Aunt Winnie off your schedule (because she lives in the Outer Shetlands and you weren,t planning on going quite that far north) at your own peril.

There is succour at hand; it,s callecl the stop-or.er break and some airlines offer very appealing packages.

Other aidines simply offer you the

opporLun¡ry

to break yotrr journcy

and make your own arrangements

for accommodation. Whichever you choose, those few days rest will make all the clifference.

Angnst

1996

THE CoRRDSPoIIDENT

Arabiøn Aclaentures orga.nises fully catered outdoor þicn

Arabian Adventures Emirates airline has put together an attractive deal with hotels in Dubai where accommodationis discounted as much as 40 per cent for the first night and 45 per cent for the second. Visas are free for the lirst 72 hours; beyond that a visa costs US$70 per person so it is easy to see why the usual stop-oYer is only

two nights.

Besides the favourite Hong Kong sport, shopping, there is a lot to do in a three-daybreak. Emirates has con-

tracted with independent operators to offer some very different (and reasonablypriced) totus and safaris; camel

riding, sand skiing, a desert driving coLlrse, tours of oasis, fishing villages

and forts and much more. A sample description of one tour - Rides and Slides: "Depart Dubai at 8:00 hours for

the desert at Al Khawaneej, where camels will take you on a half-hour ride to yollr camp in the dunes. After a cooked breakfast, relax for a while before continuing in four-wheel-drive vehicles for some on and off-road driving to the magnificentred dunes of Al Hibab. Here you may experience the Tf,D CORRf,SPONDDNT Augusr 1996

An aeÌ'ial uieut of tbe Pacifíc Islønds Club's suim-tltrougl:-aquariu'm.

ics.

thrill of mono-sküng before returning tothe city". Thishalf daytouris charged ar us$60.

FCC members will be relieyed to know that although the UAE is a Mus-

lim country whose religion forbids the consumption of alcohol, this rule does not apply to persons of other religions. Alcohol is available in hotels, restaurants and nightclubs.

Emirates flies daily (except

'Wednesdays) to London via Dubai.

Malaysian Melting Pot Malaysia Aidines (MAS), together with its sub-

sidiary, Golden Holidays, offers fiveday (four-night) stop-over packages on the retlrrn leg of the journey from Hong Kong to the Britain, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa or South America. Passengers are not restricted to stopping-over only at the main hub; packages allow passengers to break their journey in Penang, Langkawi, Kuantan, Terengganu, Kota Kinabalu,

Kuching or Kuala Lumpur. High season packages costfrom HK$9,020 per person sharing a twin room for a stopover in Terengganu to HK$ 1 1,620 for a deluxe Kota Kinabalu holiday.

In most cases the cost of the package includes a half day tour of the

chosen locale. In Langkawi, a group

get maximum luxury for their dollar.

Orchid Holidays has over 130 hotels on its books, ranging from Tourist.

of 99 islands with golden beaches and

The hotels are located throughout

clazzling marine life, the free tour takes the visitor around the main is-

Thailand, from up north in the Golden Triangle to way down south in HatYai.

land. Visitors stopping in Kuala Lumpur are taken on an afternoon tour includingatrip to a temple with dinner at a local restaurant and a trishaw ride.

Malaysia's varied terrain m€ans that whether you are an ardent adventurer or a sunbather, you can choose a stopover to suit your activity level.

Thailand: The Land of Smiles Thai

Airways offers a maximum five day stop-over for passengers routing through Bangkok. Internal flights are reasonably-priced and regular so it isn't difficult to fly out of from Bangkok to enjoy several days on one of Thailand's beautiful beaches. ThaiAirways, like Malaysia Aidines, has an associated holiday operation, Golden Holidays, with special rates for its passengers. Thai hotels are already excellent value for money so stop-orrer passengers can be assured that they will

Golden Holidays also arranges "Go Active Tours" such as Mountain Biking around Chiang Mai, trekking, 4WD

safaris, sea cano€ adventures, junk cruises or even Thai cooking courses in Bangkok or Phuket.

Alternatively, passengers may choose to stay in one of Bangkok's

luxury hotels foray out to stock uP on presents for friends and family in Britain.

Pacific Paradises. There is a lot of sea and little land between Hong Kong and the United States, so there is less

opportunity for stop-over breaks. In fact, the only non-US stop-overs are Japanand Guam.

Passengers flying to the States with United Aidines and North'$7est Aidines have an option to make two stop-ovefs. Typical stops on these aidines routes mightbe Hawaii or San Francisco. Passengers can choose to

stop-over in Toþo but only on the return journey.

Dedicated divers should think of Guam as a stop-oYer. The Guam routing takes passengers from Hong Kong to Hawaiivia Guam on Continental Micronesia, then on to San Francisco on Continental. This

route involves a tedious 15hour stop-over at Guam airport on the outward journey.

The plus side is that it is cheaper than flying with United to the States and you get two stop-overs on Pacific

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Ifnone ofthe above sounds like your perfect cure for posthome visit trauma, then you may choose to simply allow yourself a few days at the end

of the holiday, shut yourself away in your bedroom and sleep. Or perhaps you're made

of stemer stuff and think jour-

neys are

to be enjoyed, not

endured.

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è Blue Hole: experíence tlre tltrill of one of Guam's great nouelty díues u.ùen you þlunge ínto tLre crysta,l clear Loctters oÍtbe Blue Hole. At 6}feet, along a sbeer ruall tbat often bas 20O foot-ußibility, tbe d.íuer freefalls tbrauglr tlre bole to a deeþ Laindoxa ¿n tlre sea, etdting into the open ocean. Fartber down the ruótll, a sþectaculør site called Tbe Creuice cornes

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August

1996 Ttr[ CORRf,SPoNIIEI|T

Snap

Battle of the Bulge

hrppy

After an hour's work-out in the Club gym, keep-fit

What do photographers do when they gather around a table for a drink or two (or 30)? They take a smiling picture of themselves, of course. Photographed here (from the left,

by Bob Davis) in the pool room are Hugh Van Es, Mike

enthusiasts need to rehydrate. And that's how former Club manager Heinz Grabner and Keith Shakespeare were spot-

ted together the other day.

Yamashita (shooting a June 1997 cover on Hong Kong, Macau and China for Nøtionctl Geogrøþbíc, John Giannini, David Paul Morris, Greg Girard, Kees and Robin Moyer.

s

A meeting of experts

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Rhonda Palmer is famed, among other things, for being the magazine editor who produced the special supplement introducing female readers to the joys and intricacies of oral sex. So it was no surprise that she was on hand in the Club when Nury Vittachi called by to sign copies of his new book, Asian Values. After all, it does deal with a man and a woman brought into close intimacy only Nury's couple are joined at the wrist.

Tied to the FCC You can't censor the Internet. That's what Financial Secretary Donald Tsang said when he addressed a club luncheon. Cybernews will get you wherever you are, he argued. He later found out that you can't get away from an FCC tie either. A bow-tie version was presented to him byJonathan Mirsþ.

Atl in a good caüse

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You've got to give

it to dear old Stuart

A future member

\Volfendale. There's not mllch he won't do

to make a bob

or two. Here he is being dressed up by staff of

to

Steve Proctor and Lorna orkman on the birth, in England, of a baby daughter. The child's name is Kay.

Congratulations tù(i

Shanghai Tang before going on stage to spoil everyone's dinner by MCing the Press Ball.

Lunch with the Beeb The know-alls tùØho

knows how many volumes you would get if you put together the knowledge of these Old China Hands. Pictured, from the left, are Anthony Lawerence, Guy Seads and Roderick MacFarquhart. Looking on and obviously expecting a free kick to be taken at any moment isJonathan Mirsþ.

At a Club luncheon,

James Miles

of the

Just a few quiet

BBC

examined the potential for instability in China since the events ofJune 41989. He also signed copies of his new book, Tbe Legacy of Tietnanmen: Cbinr¿ in

friends

Not so t¿¡II stories

Disarray.

If they were hoping for a quiet wedding, then Chris Slaughter and Shelley Myhr invited the wrong group to their reception. Here they are at tlre Hac Sa Park restaurant in Macau.

AsiaNews, intheform

of Andrew Laxton (left) ancl Owen Hughes, cel-

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