The Correspondent, March 1997 by The Foreign Correspondents' Club, Hong Kong

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Lord Deedes spoke to Club members on a number of topics; Robin lynam talleed to

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To the editor From MrJonat}rala Mirsþ Tl-re Janr-lalv isslte is mtlch improved. The Pl-rotograPhs of Mr Horta b1, Kees ale strper-b - even of his sl'riny ears and designer str'rbble. N{ay I adcl tl-ris to youl: accollnt

speech? He told the Club lunch that l-re had expected the Nobel award this year to go to \Øei Jingsheng, the 1'ris

leading Chinese dissident, ol to Richard

Holbrooke, the Alnerican peacemaket' in Bosnia. Ml Ramos Horta said although he was grateful to Peking for its 20 yeals of suppolt fol East Timor's st1-uggle to

ricl itself of Indonesian occr-tpation, 'Vei Jingsheng is an extraoldinaty I'iuman being of enormor-ls coLlrage

ancl moral autholiry, and the Chinese democlatic movenent has taught or-rl

movemenl mtlch'' Refelring furtl'ier to Mr \Øei who

a L4 Year sentence for

is serving seclition and cotlnter-revoltttion imposed in Decerlbet, 1995, after having served an ear'lier one of almost

in producing popular pap - 'kiddie's cat tlapped downwell'- to the detriment of serious 'cnLrent affairs', viecl

reportage.

Such infor-tainment has sadly become stanclard fare today.

From Mr George Mackenzie

Let Ted Thomas keep his charnpers. \(/e lessel, overseas moftals need legular pics of Hue (van Es) to act as a benchmark to let us know how young/ old, or ín' out of condition Lue àre.

Pern'rit

lre to aPPlaud the

Iottrnotl. Nlany honre tt'ttths nerc

i,.rccinctlY stated.

From MrJoseph Parkes The Plesident annolrnces itis Tine forDfaconian Measnres; time to stamp

the wickecl practice of allowing

absent members

retl-rrn

to Hong

paying regr-rlar membership dues. Now I really know what it lneans to be a second class citizen. Shoulcl I, frorn time to time, Leturn to Hong Kong fol a couple of days and want to revisit my old mates at the FCC, I mltst now obtain a special membelship cal'd anci settle myfood anci booze accounl each day n ith a creclit card Cl-rits ale no

membership card as a lifetime absent member. Up r-rntil nor. I have been ¿rble to either buy chits or sign rny bar' bills at the FCC - the lzrtter procedttle

.ince this rr'ivialisrtion has bl'otlgllt joulnalisrn into contempt in many olaces.

Mr.,cl'

oi the blame lies n itlr

autor-rratically making rne liable for

payrnent

fof a full tlonth's

fegr-tlar

rnerlbet'ship dues, pltts rny purchases, of cc>r-Lrse. tùØouldn't it have been e¿rsiet'

(and fairer) to retain tl-ris option for

a Þ*ti

Canol\

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con'ntlittee and the boarcl of gouernors bøue pondet"ed tbis problem. øt p¡real lengrb and. tbis u,as tbe onþt solattiort wbicb seernecl uiable. I tbit'tk your ire

tuould be better directed at tbe ttnscrupulous ntentbers who baue

sougbt to clefr^aud tbe Chlb.

John Giannini

the

tlivialisation of the n-redia. This is a PeculiadY worldwide oloblern, not by any lneans conlined io ¡sie, whiclr shoLrld be as nltrch concern to tls as the equally plessing

ol infolrllrtion,

Jòr wbicb I øpologisecl in But the føct remøins th6tt there are seuerøl people wbo are resid.enl in Hong Kong, ubo øre abusing tbe rules. Tbis is costing tbe Club a lot of nxoney Tbe finance øcluance.

Let's have a snap of Ted. Then rnaybe we'll all feel rejuvenzrted. Up yer kiltl

longer available to me, except for 'specific occasions', *'hater.er the hell they mzry be. I hold an FCC

r¡.oblcln of h'eedorn

ntle cbótnges concerning absent

and sulprise at the letter in the December

The only aspectthat cor-rid possibly have cleselecl closer and mole critical

exarnination was the incleasing

ruernberc,

Car'lsberg diet works wonders.

Kong on â ûrore or less permanent basis and start Lrsing the Club without

measnrecl, timely addr-ess by Urban C Lelrner, editol of Tbe Asian \Vall Srreet

o.f tbe

From Mr Robin Lynarn I am writing to express m), shock

silence its best PeoPle? How can it fear a deI'¡ate about its fr-ttr-tre? Those u,'ho qrant tl-ie rr-rle of law mr-rst be

From Mr Russell SPurr

IN COS WC TRUsT

poor t'egard lhat we aren't worth uron'ying about?

Judging by 'Decernber's Hr-r', his

or-rt

l'reald'.

are we absent members helcl in such

Sony you misuncletstoocl tbe inteixt

television. I am one of those who n'ir-tst accept a share of that blame. Those of us working fol what's laughably called

75yeats, Nfr Ramos Horta saicl: 'China rùØei at once. How can it

must release

visiting absent mernbers who are plepared to pay full, regr-rlar dues coveling the time of their visit? Or

issr-re

,la..,,.r,\.ori

from Mr Edurard Peters on

sr-rbject of the world's most controvelsial picture. I have seldon-r been rnore olfended or distressed by an item of correspondence, MrPetels is, like rnyself,

freelance

writer and knows perfectly u,ell that you do not get paid for Iefters to Tbe

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He has betrayed us all by transglessir-rg the nnwritten cocle which is, of cor-rrse, unwtitten because urere

it not, somebody would have hacl to be paicl fol wliting it. He is clearly the sort of man who writes lettet's to his mothel ancl forgets to enclose the invoice. I really clon't

see how he can possibly atone for this except by buying me sevelal very large scotches.

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office managerJanet Cheng are more

than happy to help journalists and academics. Tlrey will evcn give you a very good cup of coffee. For pure news on the Internet, I have found that the most Lrseflll and

user

The internet is now part of our life. How to get the most

from youf coûrptrtef...o. f i you'r. sick of hearing about I ,ú. Intelnet, stop readiñg now.

Journal, have a nominal annual

However, if you are like me and find it

For those without a computer, the

subscription fee.

the most useful research tool yet

work room

devised, please continue. I recently had a reqr-rest from one of our most venerable and venerated correspondent members, Clare

PCs and one Mac Power PC. All you need to do is sr¡bscribe to an Internet

Hollingworth, that we try set up something along the lines of the

this

reference liblary that the FCC in Tokyo has. Oul sister club (or brother club,

depending on youl point of view) has long impressed me with the resources they are able to provide their members.

They have a vast library of

periodicals and files of clippings (or cuttings as the British say) on most countries and subject of interest to journalists in Asia. I brought this issue up at the last rneeting of the multi-media committee.

it would be wonderful if we had the same Everyone thought

is equipped with four IBM

Service Provider like Asiaonline and yoLl can 'surf the net'. In most cases

will cost less than HK$150 per month. The work room also has many reference rnaterials on CD-ROM. The services on offer at the information centre as you entel the main bar have been imploved. The Government Information Service wire has been added, so it is now possible to read updates on speeches and news events, as well as checking the weather

fronr the Royal Obsen/atory. The computer for this serwice was kindly donated by the Fleedom Folum. The

fi'ee Internet compllter terminal donated by Digital Equipment is providing continuor.ts access via

infonnation primalily about journalism

Government, the TDC and many more.

and freedom of speech. There are

Most of these resources are free, but some, like Tbe Asiøn rMall Street

listings for journalism fellowships and publications. The Asian Center has a

'improved', so now it is no longer possible to read the Asian edition of Time. Fol photographers though, there are sorne veryuseful professional

promenade along the Emba¡cadero named for him. Restaurants serued

his favourite dish - meatloaf and rnashed potatoes. They gave away vodka martinis or "Vitamin V" as he called it. He was one of a kind, who wrote his column for over fifty years.

service is provided inFrench, English,

New Yorle Times, 7h e'Was h ington Post, 'Wall Tbe Street Jow"nø| USA Today, and the newly published disks of the Soutb Cbina Morning Posl. By April the SCMPwill have all ofthe issues for the last four years on disk.

Spanish, and Poltuguese. easy to search by country.

links to evely newspaper in the wor-ld that has a website. It is sealched by

Best quote heard aror,rnd the bar' this month coûles from Ted Thomas

first selecting

who arranged untold thousand of

The Freedom Forr-rm also has a subscription to The New York Times on-line edition, which normally costs US$35.00 per month to international subscribers. They also subscribe to a news data base called DataTimes. I took it for a spin recently and found it extremely easy to LÌse. It employs what known in computer speak as 'natural langttage' , which means you just ask it what you want. I asked it to give me all is

to which everyone sttccumbs when

so they insist on spelling 'center' correctly). They have a website (www.freedomforum.org) with

to AP stories I've found

sites linked to the Life magazine

reception forthose who wantto watch the BBC \Øodd Service or CNN. One of the best equipped and

Center' (it is an American organisation,

access

anylvhere. One can search by region or country and there are links to other country resources. I once downloaded a visa application from the Burmese consulate in'Washington. Some other useful news sources

Homepage.

stories. I couldn't resist the vanity question

Click on that and a page of useful resoluces appears, They include the Soutb Cbina Morning Post, 7he Hong Kong Stønd,ard,, Tbe Far Eastern Economic Reuiew, The Hong Kong

reporters, but also has the quickest

cancer. He was known as Mr. Three Dot ancl Mr. San Francisco. The city he loved gave him a parade on the

www.afp.com - This has all the Agence France-Presse stories four hours after they are published. The

functioning as always. Theie are headsets availat¡Ie from bar staff or

most nnder used resources in Hong Kong ìs The Freedom Forttm Asian

in an easy to search format,

Extracts describing each story are provided. There is a catch. To download stories from other than the curfent issue, it is necessary to subscribe and pay either US$2 per article or US$1,000 per year for unlimited access. www.pathfinder.com - This is the Time-Liþ website that also includes CNN and Reuters. It was recently

Norther-n

California, just in case I ever decide to go home. Sadly, I checked into The Gâte recently to read the obituaries on Herb Caen, whom I mentioned ìn this space lwo columns ago. He died at the age of 80 from lung

Afei

AP/Dow Jones, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, and Bloomberg are

Asiaonline.

site

stories

price of real estate in

comfortable and well stocked library devoted to Asia, organised by country, They have computers for free Internet access and CD-ROM archives of Tbe

the articles on Tung Chee-hwa from Januaryt997 to February 1997.'$Øithin seconds it came up with 498 hits. Included in this were some repetition of wire stories, Steve Vines' articles ftom Tl¡e Independent, and Xinhua

resources, but the problem is it's too late. Besides, nearly evelything one would need is already either available on the Internet or through various data bases. The trick is to know how to get at fi. A sirnple starting point for finding information is the FCC homepage. The address is www.fcchk.org. There you will find a hypertext link called LINKS,

friendly

www.washingtonpost.com. This not 'Wasbington Posl only has articles by

www.businessweek.com - An excellent archive of Bwsiness rï/eek

discovering

new data base. I punched

in my own name. I was shocked to discover36 hits lastmonth. lwas fufiher shocked to discover that there is a firstyeal basketball coacl-i at the University of Maine, who is using my name and rnaking headlines in the Bangor Daily News.

The Fl'eeclom Forurn is located in the Shui On Centre in \Tanchai (tel: 2596-0018). The facilities are fi-ee and director John Schidlovsky and

It is very

www.asia-inc.com - The

www.news.com - This the most extraordinary site I've found. It has

region, then selecting a

country.

homepage of Asiø Inc.

magazine, which recently added a \Øho's \Øho

www,sfgate.com - This site is calledThe Gate. I use itto check onmy

of Asian business personalities.

hometown

Tung Chee-hwa is listed, but Chris

Exan'tiner and The San Frøncisco Cbronicle. I also use it to check the

Patten isn't.

aper s, 7h

e S an

Franc

isc o

dollars worth ofbusiness in aboutthirty seconds: 'Yor-r achieve so rnuch rnore

by sitting around the bar at the

FCC,

than by going to the office.' Solry Ted, tlrere's no prize.

Accr editation of m edia at Handover Ceremofry The Handover Ceremony Co-ordination Office (HCCO) is planning to send out application forms to media orgaîisations in March or April for official accreditation of journalists wishing to cover the transfer of sovereignty ceremony. Freelance journalist must apply through an accredited media organisation.

For further information call Felix Cheng at FICCO on 2526 6487; or fax 2525 797I

March 1997 TIE

GORRXSP0NDENT

Rigbt: Robin Lyncutt, Micbael M¿tckelt and Bill Deedes discttss tbe Dennis Tbcttcher lettets

A delighted Lorcl Deedes receiues an FCC memento from tbe Pt"esiclent

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with more than the contents of

suitcase, was greatly amused by the young corlespondent's voluminor-rs

cabin trunk and cleady used at least

some of his experiences and personality traits in Scoop, although Deedes steadfastly denies 'going off with some wolnan in a canoe'. The storm clouds of dre Second \Øorld \Øar were galheling over Enrope, and as fntnle colleague Clare Hollingworth headed fol Poland to go tank-spotting, Bill Deedes joined the atmy - apparently out of a chivalrous desire to rescue Queen Geralcline of Albania from Mussolini. He enlisted in the territorial wing of the King's Royal Rifle Corps with which he lemained

Lord Deecles witb Clare Hollirtgworib andJobrt Giatmini

J IJ

A visit from the first Press Lord

o.a Deedes - or Bill Deecles as he

prefers to be addressed - has

developed, in the coulse of an eight decade-p1us lifetÌme spent in the

wodds of journalisrn and politics, a deft knack of avoiding the question. Always happy to talk, he lets you know exactly what he wants you to know and not one jot more.

disappointment of a highly entefiaining speaker's lunch and an enjoyable interview with him As a result, the sole

afterwards was that it proved

Lord 'Bill' Deedes rzisitecl tkre Club recentl;z to talk to rrrembers. Robin L¡zna-rrr ta"lked to t1-re forrrre r C at> inet À4inister a"tl.d ir:tfaraloll s j or-rrnalist at>or-rt a nurrrt>er of topics - on solTre points, tkrou¡3h, Bill Deedes refi¡sed to l>e drau.n

impossible to get a straight answer to the two questions everybody wanted answers to - is he really the foreign correspondent in Evelyn \Øaugh's Scoop andisl-re indeed the lecipient of the popular D ear Billletters in Priuate Eyewhrdn plrrpoft to be from Dennis Thatcher? He did however answer questions on subjects rangingfrom Chlis Patten's

dernocracy policies to Dennis's golf Piclures by Huben uøn

handicap. He wasn't particularly forthcorning abor-rt the latter, but Es

seemecl optimistic about the long term

conseqlrences of the former, and slrppoltive of his lunch partner of the previous day.

"In a few years time I think it is likely that we will see democracy in Hong Kong and I think it is quite likeiy that we will see democracy in China. This is the first and last act of empie in which we're handing over not to the peopie of a state or countly ol city, but to another country. That makes this very special and very difficult, Chris

journalism, but he fell into the wolld of newspapers entireÌy by accident. The \Øall Street crash of 7929 had claimed the ftrnds earmarked to send him to r.rniversity, and of the other available options a cateer with Marks

Patten therefole has a far lnore difficult

howeverwas despelate for a repolter, and the young Biil Deedes applied for the job. "In a sense it was my univelsity. You could work and learn at the same

task than any previous Governor General olViceloy. Given the difficuþ of the task none coulcl have done better. " I

talked to him about his career - an

extraoldinary one by any standards, including as it cloes stints as a British cabinet minister', the editorship of a national newspaper, elevation to the House of Lords ancl a Military Closs for coLÌrage in action during the Second \Øor1d \Øar.

His first love has always been

& Spencer did not appeal and the BBC

fol lacking experience. The Morning Posl had turned him down

time, so

I was very lticky with

that

experience. By the time I left I had some idea of what I had to do and I was wedded to journalism." At an early stage in his career he was sent by the papel to cover the war in Abyssinia where he met Evelyn tùØaugh. \Øaugh, who never tlavelled

thror"rgh the war.

"It sounds odd but you are odd at 20. I was never clever enor-rgh to be a staff officer and nevel stupid enough to upset the colonel and get sent on a foreign dlaft, so I floated thlough fi'om

beginning to end. At the end of the war I was the only one of 368 officers in that batlalion to have come from first to last - I was Mr Average." Hardly that. Mr Averages are not

normally awarded Military Crosses. This however is another subject on which Lord Deedes is lesolutely unforthcoming. "I never go into that becar-rse so

many people were killed in the palticular action I was in. It was at the end of the war and we had a particular

problem to solve and we solved it. You do things in war you wouldn't do any other time." Marcb799f THI

CORRf,SPOIIDHIT

Although he has clearly never lost his taste for newsplint, politics is also in Lord Deedes's blood and when the

opportunity to enter the House of Corlmons presented itself more orless on a plate, he seized it. "That was a bit of h,rck - I've had

luck

al1 my

life.

The Member of

Padiament in the constitlrency where I lived andwhele myfanily have been Membels of Parliament for centuries, retirecl prematurely because he wanted

to go and live with a woman who wasn't his wife, and in those days that was a problem." It was to be the beginning of a 25year political career culminating in two years as a cabinetministerbefore going back to journalism, although in Lold Deedes's account of it, his time as an MP is described largely as an extended lesearch ploject. "I found it invaluabie to have 25 years in politics and to discover the diffículties involved. It's much more difficult thanitlooks to journalists very often. There are no ideal solutions,

very often you have to choose the lesser of two evils. It's a LÌseful experience in life to see how the other side has to work, but I've never had any doubt in my life that basically I'm happiest being a journaiist, which is why now, when the Labour Party see me in the House of Lords, they get very

excited because they know I never turn Lrp unless the Government is in the last ditch."

Life as a peer of the realm apparently is not the bowl of cheries some of us might imagine. "I do a five day week at the Telegrapb where basically I'm a leader writer, and I write a column a week, and every now and then I go off on expeditions like this. I can't do all that and be useful in the House of Lords. Any'way the place is ovelheated, it's like an intensive care ward and I can't stay awake." Lord Deedes's stint as editor of the

Daily Telegraph began at around the time of Margaret, Thatcher's plemiership, for most of which the paper was closely identified with her policies. Lord Deedes is a close friend of Dennis Thatcher, but denies ever

having been infh,renced by that relationship in his lole as an editor. "Because we are personal friends

and I was very close to her husband I

was always very careful to keep a distance becanse I think it's very important that editors do not get themselves involved with politicians. Meet them, dine with them, listen to them, get deep background, but don't get too close, eveL. You ale in charge of the independent rnind of your newspaper. Occasionally the Telegrapb had to say 'Mrs Thatcher, you are wrong'. It was very impofiant that she accepted that. rùØe backed Reagan and we backed Thatcher. I claim no credit for this. I had three or fouryoung tulks on the leaderwriting staff and they believed in Reagonomics, they believecl in the free market. I think editors need to be very

careful before they impose their pefsonal views on a newspaper." Deedes remains nevertheless a staunch admilel of the Iron Lady and

don't discr-rss thre ,I)e¿zr ,Bill letters. Not zrs xzell as l-ris q¡ife"

"NÇze

role to play. I speak as an ex-editor. I don't attempt to direct the editorial policy of the Daily Telegrapb. ÃIl I can do is occasionally chip in bad advice. I think she's learned that there isn't much she can do and that probably the best policyis to talk privatelybutnever

office. "I think Mrs Thatcher was a very hard act to follow. She did alter the map you see. tùØhen she arrived we

were very much

centralised

government with controlled prices and incomes, She was the first person rather like Ronald Reagan - to believe

that the free market would improve

the perforfirance. She was in difficulties all the time but she never actually lost her direction, and by seeing it through I think she changed the direction of the country. \Øhat is more the Labour Party has broadly accepted that the direction she took was the right one. 'What else is Blair cloing now? For a close friend of the Thatchers,

Lord Deedes is surprisingly sympathetic of the successor she has so ptrblicly scomed from the sidelines.

"I don't think Major could have done anything other than consolidate and he has consolidated. Ex-prime ministers have a terribly difficult role to play. They don't leally have anY

I il

I I'r

pr-rblicly." The most famous conseqlÌence of the Deedes/Thatcher friendship is, of course, the Dear Bill letters. Or is it? Once again Lord Deedes is inclined to be evasive about a fictional character

forwhom

he is alleged to be the model. "Richard Inglams, who was lhen

editing Private Eye, is a pelsonal family friend. He wlites the letters with an actor called John \Øells, He got to knowwhat my golf club was and what I did. Occasionally the letters would

include references to that which attached me to DearBill I once asked

Richard Ingrams and he said, 'it's nothing to do with you. Bill lives in Folkstone and is totally out of touch with everything'. \Øhile I live near Folkstone, I can't claim to be totally out of touch with eveqrthing. \Øhat Inglams likes, the same as Ian Hislop

who is now editor, is to have a good a weird idea of jokes. " Like it or not - and one sLlspects that he actually does - Lord Deedes is stuck with his link to Dear Bill.He is philosophical about the association. "I have always believed that the letters had a very powerful value. They delivered a pofirait of Dennis which

tease. They have

a strong defender of her period in

was widely accepted and unfailly accepted as the rightportrait. Obsessed

with golf, likes his gin and would be qu ite incapable ololleling any seriorrs advice. Dennis is very right wing. He has views about the BBC, he has views about SouthAfi'ica, he has views about

rugby football. He's very outspoken

and very opinionated. Plivate Eye made it impossible to say that Dennis

ever influenced Mrs Thatcher in deciding this or deciding that."

Margaret Thatchel apparently shares Lord Deedes's view on this, but how, I asked in conclusion, does poor old Dennis take it? His face creased with an enigmatic half smile that usually precedes the riposte to a question he

doesn't intend to answer fully. "\ù7e don't discuss the Deør letters. Not as well as his wife."

Bill

Bill Deedes spoke to the FCC at>out politics, journalisrrr and Der-rnis lfkratcl-rer. I3r-rt szl-rile Dennis allo.çr¡s l-ris letters to I3ill to be pr-rbliskred in Priu(zte Eye, Bill's responses krzn e t>een kept secret for tkre l>est f)art of tuzerrty yea,rs. Orre of tl-re Ch-rl>'s leading inrzestigatirze journalists sperìt tl-re neq/ ye'<Lr l-rolida"y period in thre rrra.il roolTr at the Post Office tryirl.g to find Bill's retLrrn letter. Once kre stearlred it open this is xzhat l-re found. À4ichael À4a"cke¡z s/as tl-rere... Dear

Dennì-s,

Many thanks responding.

for your

mosb

recent missive and apologies

for my sloth jl

Sadly thjs is not due to having imbibed too nuch at Mau.rj-ce's Bûbh birthday shindig although that cocktail, h'hich he cal-led EMU and i¡si.sbed eveqybdy dri¡k didn't exactly help. Was it you or the famed editor of a national daily \\¡ho T seem to remembr abseili.g dolr'n the golf elub tr.u=ets at 7am j¡ the mornjÌlg? Ând did you (or he) ever solve the problem of the firesbains on his cunmerbund? No, old nan the reason for the delay is that T have been i¡ Hong Kong for that blasbed book rThe End of Empiret T promised some arff sorb T h'ou1d hæite. T find it nuch easier to rr"rite i¡r a five sbar hotel overlooking Victoria Harbour partlcularly hrhen the proprietor is payilg. Âbout the only thì-:ng he does pay for these days ',r'ithout asking for a receipt but itrs too early j¡r the nornixg to think about that.

the

p1ace,

Hong Kong is a splendid ci\r. T had lunch h'ith or.rr nan \{hose currently runnjxg a podgy 1itb1e chap ca11ed Patben 1r¡ho lr¡as ah'ays hanging around Margaret-

Had lunch r,r'ith him at his residence h¡hich h¡ould have gone adnrirably had it not been for the dogs T\r¡o of them ter"riers called t{hisky and Soda jJ my shatbered nenory sert¡es me right Quite frankly T haven't heard so much noise sj¡ce you crashed the d¡j¡ks trol-ley i¡to Carol's make-up kit EVentually Sj-r Chri-stopher as he i¡si.sts on beixg ca1led jx private realised that T \¡as ill at ease lr¡ith t'rro modern day equivalents of the Hounds of the Basker¡¡i11e careerixg round the ,Axnri¡ster and ealled j¡r several Gr¡rkhas to remove them Helpilg myself to a calnLing claret Patben then starbed to go on about passports. I just bras about to give him a DaÍ1y Telegraph editorial leader hrriter lecture, a technique March 1997 THE

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Cabi¡et and fi¡e tuned by lr'atching Margaretrs treatment of her Cabj¡et r,r'hen I realised he rr'as talking not about passporhs for the Hong Kong locals but for his dogs! ,41-1 damned odd jf you ask me. Stil1 he chose not to so I just kept on imbibing the claret and rr'onder1ng j.f I could borrolr' his r,uifers golf clubs. T also had to give a speech to the Foreign CorrespondentsrClub. Well T didn't have to but Clare Holli¡lgr,rorbh asked me to. You rnust remernber her Dennisr she rr'as the one lvho did lr'hat the Foreign Office forgot and told the rr'or1d that Johnny Hun rr'as ilvading PoÌand. She also once threatened to slap an Âlgerian sbornrtrooper rr'ith her sbilleto lr'hen the cheeky bìj-ghter r,r'anted to evict another þurnali.st from some hotel bar for enjoying a fuixk and a particular risqué verslon of the Chorus of the Hebrelr' Slaves frorn Nabucco. ,An¡nuay Clare had asked me to give a speech and so bei¡g a gentleman I obìj-ged. T must say the fCC is very nuch the sorb of place you and T could fit i-rì. ft's jttst tr'hat any sensible nan rvantg a good bar rr'ith its orrm golf society. Some of the memberg T an delighted to report, looked as if the only slving they ever practice involves an uplvard one tvith a fu11 glass lunch r,r'as good, rr'ell- a dann sight betber than anythilg r,re get in Canary Wharf these days Àfter that T had to pul1 myself to my fee! lr,itber on about the end of Empire lr'hich is the title of my upconring opus Gave then the sbandard li¡re about this rvas an honourable endeavour and that it h'as an i¡rternational sbory of such magnitude; unduly heavy responsibility to fa11 on journali.sþ etc, etc Sat dolvn exhausted and hoping that the beauty of my oratory trould encourage them to file out j¡r silence thereþ allorving me to spend an hour inspecting the nai¡ bar and hopefully practising my sr'ing. Not my golf srr'ing lest you s'barb to get fretful ahead of our nexb encounter on the links (By the r,r'ay, has the Club secretary decided to overlook the Baronrs rnosb recent transgression i:r the bunker at the nirrth hole? T do thi¡k it lr'as a rather stupid place to store the cosbunes for the Club Chrj.sbmas panto. Margaret T am sure lvill nake a very good l/idorr' Tr,rankey. Have you told her yet?) this lr'as not to be. Up popped one Ri-chard Tngham lr'ho is decidedly English but reduced to lr'orking for the Frencho questioni¡g me about the death of the foreign co:respondent At fi.rs't f thought one of my colleagues had been ca11ed to that great editorial in the sky then T realised he r,r'as talking about the decl¡e of journalists rrorki-ng abroad. Ttying not to thixk of r,r'hat my room, boari and mi¡ibar bifl at the Mandarin is going to cost that oversexed lunberjaek lr'ho T rr'ork for, f said that yes thls lvas a problem. Concluded it rr'ith a rallying €ll for more expense account living one of the Itesbst of the modern neh¡spaper; rr'il-l- they lrear the cosb of the foreign bureau? Nerb quesbion cane from a shorb dapper chap lrearlng a bolr.tie. r,Are you Scoop?t the cheeky blighter asked. Denniq o1d man, in case youtd forgotben EVel¡m Waugh lr'ho f lr'orked rr'ith i¡ Äþssin-ia r\'rote my diary for me after too much of the local hooch. (T r,r'ill go dor,rtr in history as Scoop and Evelyn r,r'i1l go dorrm i¡r his hì.story as a young man r,vho drank too much at Oxford and then spent JO years telling everybody about ft). \¡/ould I go off r,r'ith a troman in a canoe?r T asked. ,4dding for the benefit of Miss Victoria Coombs the church conespondent of the Daily îelegraph lr'ho lr'as travellirg tr'ith me, developed from my olrm days

that did not shut them up. trYancjs Moriarby then þurnali.sts get it right? T rr'as tempted to say jusb look at the bar dolr'nsbai¡s but told him lr'hat T had been told by Tan Macleod. Macleod once said that the right relationship betlveen þurnalìsts and politicians is one lr,here it can be abrasive but not abusiva (T otten rr'ish Margaretrs pressman, that big burly Yorkshireman lr'ho ended up sell.lrrg i¡surance door to door had got this the right rr'ay round but no matber Stil-1

asked horr' do

nolv)

lnSnr'ay T told Moriarby and the assembled //- - ---\ tthe test is r,r'hether or not after July the i. r c.c, first you feel free to be abrasiver. Nexb quesbion h¡as one of those highly political ones about Treland and the physical ßE ÊBEAS IVE integrity of the IIK from Michael Mackey tr'ho had sat ñor ceusiv< nexb to me all through 1unch. Gave hi¡n a highly ,...-- ABRASIVE .-' political ans\\'er and not a verT optini-sbic one but basically tr'hat T srispect lr'e all knolr', that the problern of ^,f,$,;*,^g " Treland, because of the double majority problen¡ rr'il-l- not be solved ti11 rr'el.l- into the nexb century. (fnat seemed to shut him up although not for long). îhen someone asked about the nexb election in Britain, lr'hich T told them lr'ould be the mosb open hre have ever had, highly unlike the Chinese.model and that a 1ot rr'ould depend on the turnoul Then as T tr'as about to tr'ind upr up pops soneone lr'anting to knolr' about my golf handicap and yours I sbuck þ lr'hat the Baron calls the Marquis de Sade Lpproach to Golf : Donrt discuss strokesr. îhat solved that" Penultinatæ quesbion tr,as about Patben and did I have any reservations. Well- not in Government House on the night of the jamboree, T rvas tempted to reply. Who? T said playing for time and to much hilarity. Bet Margaret lr'ishes she could be as sanguina But actually, Denniq T do support him even if T donrt reall.y undersband all. thatrs going on. Tt is technical-ly cor"rect of me to say that this rjs the firs'b and last place r,r'here he are handing over not to the locals but to another counfirt. îechnical.ly comect but not 1@ per cent aceurate ix the spirit of thilgs We rvere just about to lrrap up (¡nair is indeed mercjful-, T was thinking) rr'hen that got i¡r a fi¡a1 question. For al-l these years you and Den¡js have been rr'riting chap Mackey (blah, blah, blah) What does Margaret think?t. T thought a ¡noment and gave him an an$rer, -.. honesb, diplomatic and shorh î{ot mucht. Well- nolç as then T must dash. We are goilg junking or mahþnging, chopsbicks at the ready. Your long standing friend, golf parbner and menber of the Escape from Stalag Margaret comrnittee, masses

dg"^

rDlsgracefult.

tBut are you Scoop?tMirsky asked again.'f am merely a reporterrf told hin tr'ishi¡rg to C'od that he rr'ould shut up. Ðo T look the sort of person r,r,ho goes off lvith a lroman in a canoe?r said T before spinnlng sone yarn about Evelyn, my luggage and cleft sbicks j¡ Tndia. (Such a nanoeu\rre \\'as not only sllging for ny supper or lunch but rather a h'ay to avoid a quesbion about Tndia. Or Ameri-ca. f forget lr'hich but the quesbion had nentioned end

of Empire. THI

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March 1997

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lfl-re Britisl-r Council l-ras seen fit to destro;z its libra"r5z a"rtd despatcl-r rzirtua"lly all its t¡ooks to Vietnarrr. CluL> r-rrer-r-r1>er Arthur Hzrcker is cor-rducting alrr-ro,st a one-laaan czlrr-rpa"ign to l-rarze tl-re decisiorl rescinded

ft,.r. rrsecl to be a cleliglrLlirllittle I oasis of ctrlture in Wanchai called the British Council Library. I would fi'equently drop in to read the

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Small libraries, like personal libraries, have a character of their' own. The English literature section had been intelligently selected and there was generally a good reason

conflonted by the Director of

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why some of the less common classics were included. I wondeled a bit about

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they had to rnake room for the compLÌters they were installing. HoweveL, almostthree qr-rafiels of

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Trollope's Pbineas Finn, until I discovered that Phineas was modelled

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on Sir John Pope Hennessy, one of eccentric governors. Kipling's From Sea lo Seø was included presurnably because it contained an account of his visit to a Hong Kong brothel where he spent $30 on a scadet woman callecl

Hong Kong's 1rrol'e

Corinthian Kate. In Decernber the Blitish Council moved to a massive new builcling which Steve Vines tells us has been nicknamed the British Fort by Hong Kong's taxi drivels. \Øhen I heard rumolìrs that the Bdúsh Council had given away a1i the English litelature

Eclucation, Neil Maynard. I asked the simple qLÌestion,'\7Ly?' He repeated tlre reply lre had given to the Morning Posl: 'Older works can be found in the bookshops across Hong Kong, so there ìs no point in allowing them to take r-rp much-neecled space'. He added that

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books and leplaced them with complrters, my leaction was the same

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odd poem frorn theil superb collection of English verse, ol wallou.. in the latesl Royal scanclal in the Sun; but generzlly I r-rsed the liblary for l-iistorical

Dickens, Br-rrns, Chaucer' ... the lotl So have the history, al't, architectnre and the British heritage sections together with half the reference library. The l-nodern fiction section remains. It is mainlythrillers. The rest, 20,000 books l'iave been sent to the Public Liblary Serwice of Vietnam. tü/lien I complained I was

....

everybody else's. 'It's irnpossible'

. . .

'Don'l be silly' ... 'Nobody would do

anyùing so stlÌpid!' After Oliver Poole's story appearecl SouLtb China 'I[orning Post I visited the place. The sitr-ration is far worse than reported by Poo1e. Engiish

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4thFúruarv 1997 Mr Arlhur Hacker, MBE FlatB, ll/F Greflbelt Court Dis+ovcry Bay Iåntåu HongHong

Fromoting culturnl. educationtl and techrrical co-operatiort bolween Brit¿in anrl other countrios 3 SLrprcure (.lorrrb Road, Adniralty, Hong Kong TelePhoncr (t'5¿) 2s13 5100 Facaimilcr (8åË) 29ìS 510t hl,tìr

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tl'ieu'a11sr¡f thelibr-¿u-r'alegl:rss. Even n-ithor-rt lining tl-rcm u.'itl'r books there is still a massil'c ¿rlllollllt of spzrce. NIr Nf a1-nalcl aclclecl. 'Books ale expensirre

attitucle pron'iptecl me to launch a campaign to get the boc¡ks back ol

the Posl befole I f-iad even n-ret ÀIr Nlavnarcl. It is the first letter I f iave replacecl. To snpport the czLr-npaign all er el r¡,'r'itten to a neñ'spaper'. Nf l Torn volr have to clo, if r-ou are llritish, is to Bucl-ianan, the clirectr¡r ol tl-ie Rdtisl-i to kcep'. I have hacl a copv of faxNlrt\la1'nalc1 Q9I35106) anclask Cor-rncil in Hong Kong, er..entually Shzrkespezrle fol sixty years ancl so far him fbr tl-ie namc :rncl f¿rx number of repliecl. The filst for-u' paragr:rphs of ithasnotcostmcapenrl,v.NlrNlal,'nalcl yourNlen-rberofP¿rrli¿rn-rent Con-rplain his letter, u,'hen tl'anslatecl ont of inforrnecl n-iethatallbooksl-radbcen zrtthesarnetime.Ifl'orL arenotBlitish, Blitish bnr-eaucLat-spe'.rk, czLn be putonCD-RONIbefbrethe).'s,-eresent fax hirn asking him for'cletails on the conclcnsccl into thle e sìmple to Vietnam. As Tin'r Han-rlett pointccl Nlinistel u,'ith lesponslbility' to Hong sentcnces: out in lris colunrn inth.c Srn'tclctl'Post: Kong. Yor-r then lax )¡otu' ÀlP ol the The British Cor-rncil's job is to "Anyone u¡lio tlies to leacl Gil¡bon's Nlinister and protest vigorously. promote tsriti.sl-r cultnre abroacl t.hich Decline anrJ Fctll on a colnplrter inch-rdes Hong l(ong;

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r"-llå TJi'ìll"f,":T'il.,llli cultr-u'c fi'om the British Council

De¿rMr Hackcr Furthcr to Ms Elizatreth Townsoil's reply to your enquir y Õn the hritish tlauncil'$ collection of bffihË on the Royal Family, I now confìrm thât all books in this c&tegtry, wìth the eÉcoption oI "R¡4nl þ-u¡rsJion lhilliam the Conqueror ta the Presenl Dsy" and "The lvlonøn:h.yt' which were reteined as ret-erence, have now been sent to the Hanoi Public Library

low usage, the need to concsürÊte our resourre5 on åreå$ wlúch are not dupticated or better served by other pmviders or where the usage is higher, and the ease of accc$s Ênd availability nowadays in Hong Korrg of English lffi$lage materiål partiuularly through the public libraries'

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I rvould also like to point out that the British Council's information service has to meet thc needs of the local cornmurrity lt v/ould not be doing its job well if statistics showed otherwise, Indee4 the nunrber of people who enroled as melnber$ ol'the Eduoation, Training and lnformetion Service in January '97 was double that of new library nrembership in January'96 Last of ell, wc feel that your üoncÆrns aboul the libtary sefvic,e, including those zubsequently raised in your få,r nddressed to myself on February 2, have been adequately arrswered througll thìs letter and our published or broadç+st replies in the medis. Yours sinc+rely

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You will, no doubt, be aware of our reå.Éons for undertaking suçh a policy mov€ I's they have becn urell ventihted in the local press of lete and therÊ is no nesd for me to reiterate them here. Suffrce to såy that we sôe the addition of Lnternet terminals, ÇD ROMS and the videcr ard CO collection¡s camrylen Ènlø¡'tools to provide further açcess to Engliú literature and heritagg Ênd that the real issue here is not so muçh s lack of space for books but whcthcr sp*o*L put fo its best u$Ê, grven the difisent demands fot the tsritish Council's ressurces utd

[ì -il r-

IJ Lt ä::ïiÍl;',:J.:ï,','.1:î::3iïlii: lT F 'Did the tsr'itisli the ¡t il Fl Lr í,ï:ä:.:'ij,ì'iX'iï',n"

Liblary in Hong Kong;

-.'

ræ

impoltant thzrt

Sh:,rkespear-e and

Dickens?

Thebooksthathavebeen clisposecl of are part ()f the rock on cli u-l-ricli tsritisli cttlture is br-rilt Is he

il'"',"J;:iiiiïi,iilTl:i::".:.,r:l the

szrncl'?

e Bible. I ¡.-onclel if tlie good b¡1ok w v-or-rlclbedefineclbyNfr-tsuchan:rn

detail. The netu Britislt ("cnntcil Tr¡tt:er Ltehincl Pacific Ì'lace as an'nnder,utilisecl st¿ttic soluce Idon'tknowagreatclealabout and banished from thc Blitisl-l I h¿rr,-e done this ancl ar.n nou'in Council Liblaly. CD-ROÀ,Is but I leckon that 20,000 books ha."'e six million pages ancl to tor-rch lr,'ith n'ry NIP lr.ho has s.'ritten to Tl-re othel point he seen'recl to be scan them in five u'eeks is beyond tl're the dilector'-gener-al of the tsr'itish making n.:rs th¿rt the Blitish Cor-rncil capabilities of the British Council. I Cor,rncil, Sil John l{anson, ancl if Sir has son-icthing callecl 'thc neu'-book have since faxed NIr Nlal'narcl ancl Johncloesnotgir''caconvincingleply, policy''r.r'hichasfaraslc¿rnmakeor-rt askecl him hol.'he clicl it. I included in lie has prornisecl to raise the tlattel in is a holocaust to extelrninate all books my fax 20 otl'ier questions, I sent it ten the House of Couurons.Judging by Sil and replace t1-ieln r-itl-i a n'iaster r¿ice of ciays ago He hacl not r-eplicd at the John'sexplanationuùeninten'leuecì complrters, tin'reofu.'r-itingthis:rrticle.Neithelhas bySimonBr-rerkintheSunclø1'tl.Iontit'tg l)oes snch a policy lulfil the anyone lepliecl ),'et on air to tl're Post-Ivet1,'nr-rchcloubtifhecangive statecl airns of the Rritish Council qr-restions askecl on the last t1-rfee a cfedible answer which afe: 'tc¡ promote o\-erse2ìs an Ithinkthethingt4ricl-rs-ort'iesme cnduring undelstanding ancl Strnclays c>n Open Line. Insteacl the Cor-rncil has asl<ecl RTHK to fàx tl-rern almost as rnr-rch as tl-re loss of tl're applecizrtion of Blit¿tin thlor-rglt the listenels'questions. libraly is r-hat seems to be the total cultr-uztl, ecl¡-rcational ancl technicai lepliecl plon-rptl1' and in

'I'lieytliink that theyharre acl-rier.'ecl lack of interest clisplal'cd by the tsr'itisl-r co-opelation'? .t'ø,it øccon'tþli and thele is nothing C<¡uncil ofÏicials in English litelatr-u'e any()ne can do abor-rt it, This an'ogant ancl British cr-rltnre. I u.'r'ote a lettel to a.

Nlarclr

l99l

THE C0RRXSP0IDENT

@fl

.- b',

Hong Kong editors testing the limits

a,¡

by Dinah Lee

.t=f:glr¡n

N4a,irrla-ncl cer-rsor.s1-rip of rr-rzljor nel /s stc)ries l-ras alu¡a¡zs l>een sometl-ring¡

of a pr<>blerr.

rJÇZl-rat

,'#tg

.svill l-ra"ptr)en '¿'¿fter tl-re l-r¿lndorzer?

'\Ø;:i:î;JJï;ïïïli; sornething to hang onto r-hile we're drou.'ning,' saicl Bill Cl'ran of the SinoRritish agreement r-rnder which Hong I(ong reverts to Chinese soveleignty onJuly I, 1997. Chan is the Cl-rina eclitol in the news division of the

tel'l'itolys leading television

slal ion,

HK-TVB, owned by legendary movie

daily, evenbeforethe official handover'.

Chan singled out broadcast jou|nalism as tlte tnost precaIit.rtts

are based on facts not rnrnours,' said

former head of tlie New China News

names rnust be submittedfol clealance

Lui Kin Htrng of Íhe Hong Kong

without bylines, but otu'first priolity must be to pl'otect oul staff. Under the seven regulations, which govern

to tl're New China News Agency in Hong Kong. The NCNA will clernand a replacement if the non-rinated

Commercial Daily. 'T)oes that mean s,.e can call Li

Agency, Xu Jiantun, defected to a Buddhist temple in San Diego after

Hong l(ong and (neigl'ibouring) Macau journalists wolking on the mainland,

reporter has politically'transgressed' in the past. Chan clescribed the current m o clus

meclia because of its visibility. 'In print yor-r can rr-rn editorials or news stoties

czal Run Run Shavt'. Chanwas speaking canclicllylate Iastye r aprivate dinnel ^f

hosted by the National Committee on United States-China Relations. Chan was there as part of a fiven-ran delegationvisiting NewYolk. The gloup's membership spanned Hong Kong's political spectrum and includecl the deputy chief eclitor of the oncecolonial EnglishJanguag e daily South Cbina Morning Pos4, editorial n'riters ftom Tin Tin Daily and the left-wing

Wen '{/ei

and the intelnational

news editol of Hong Kong Commerciøl Daily, cr>nsidered sympathetic to the n-rainland.

As a follou-up to the successful panel cliscussion sponsored by The Freedon'r Forr-rm and OPC on the threats to Hong I(ong's press

operandi

Self-censorsl-rip is a qzorrying trend a1r1<>nél Hong l(ong media

chance

to bettel unclerstand the

ploblems that Hong I(ong editols face THE CORRESPONI)DI\IT N'far.cl'r 1991

as an Lrneasy

wheleby TVB reporters on the mainland bling their footage back to

Hong Kong for standups or the packaging' before being broadcast. T\rB cannot establish an official-news brueau in Beijing, so theil repol'tels operate from a de facto bureau and are seen on the job legularly by Chinese ar-rthorities. 'So, of course, they know u,'e're theLe,'said Chan. TVB reporters

covel stories afterreceiving pelmission t\¡u'o to thlee weeks in advance," Chan said. "The topic must be specified ahead of tin-re. And we can'l go to Beijing and cover other stories on the side. Therefore, if there's breaking news, it's impossible to do or-rr job

on the mainland are ah¡rays exposecl to the risk of being alrested and formally charged and in fact they ale detained constandy for many hor,rls at a tirne, said Chan. Self-censorship is a worrying lrend alrrong Hong Kong media. For the time being, none of the eclitols seened

1ega1ly.'

Chan's comments were

refet'ence

to the crackdou.n on Hong Kong journalists after the Tiananmen tragedy

1989.

The post-1989 regulations have

Peng an animal ol not?' retorted Chan, a joke on Li Peng's natne in Chinese,

accommodation

we are only officially allowed to

freeclom, the inforrnal chat gave members of the Ovelseas Press Club's Fleeclom of the Press Cornmittee a

proved an effective callot-ancl-stick system fol controlling u''hr¡ and u'hich organizations work inside China. Formajor events in tseijing, reporters'

HffiÐÎR4õB gg

too sLlre of how rigidll' the Chinese q'oLrld intclplet the limits on t ritic isrn ol Beijing leaders recently stated by the Chinese foreign minister- Qian Qichen. 'It's all right if onr criticisr-t-ts

newspapef.

Eastern legend. Chan adn-ritled his station has ah'eady refrained fi'om moves that might brand TVB in Beijing as a trolrblemaker. For example, a controvelsial docr-rmentaly on the life of Mao Zedung lias stayed on the shelf for more than two yeat's.

Accorcling to a 1995 report by tlie Hong I(ong Journalists Association,

Asked, lrypothetically, u4rether the

l lJ

to take a contlolling interest in tlie

which means 'roc', a gigantic bird of

tl-re Tiananmen inciclent, he wrote in his menoirs of discussíons with Beijing

outb

Cb in a

Monting Poslwould drop

colnmnists n'ho ale clitical of the Communist Palty such as legislatols Emily Lau and Cl-rristine Loh under post-f997 intirniclation fi'om the

Commr-rnists, Car-r'rbridge-educated Victor Fung said l-ralf-jokingly, 'Sure'. Then he added, 'Serior"rsly, we wottlcl have lo look atwho owns Lrs after 1'997 and make a decision at that tin-re'.

Ctrrrently the South Cbina

Morning Post is ou''ned by Nlalaysian business tycoon Rober-t Kuok, but he has majol business interests on the mainland and cor-rld easily be swayed by Cornmunist interests - or er''en sell the paper to them. In fact, when the

qr,restion of constantly testing the lirnits. He also saq'some comforl in that Hong Kong issues are still referred in Beijing to Lu Ping, head of the Hong Kong ancl Nlacau Affails Office, rvho seems to Llndelstancl Hong I(ong bettel than most of the leaclelsl'rip in Beiling

tl-re Communist govelnn-ient stepped

up dreil infiltration of Hong I(ong media olganisations afier Nne 4, 1989.

Lr-ri of tlre Corutnercial Daiþ,said it was nos¡ no secret who was the socalled mainlancl 'r-rncle' fi'om the

Cornmunist Party on theil editolial staff, as the person in question also selves in Beijing as a high-ranking Commr-rnist Party official in tl-ie State Council's office of press affairs. In olhel newspapel's China's agenls migl-rt adopt a n-ruch low-er plofile. Chan says that the Cornmunists cannot affolct to intelfere too openly in the eally days of the coming transition. 'If sornebocly sits over me el,ely clay ancl tells me what to do, I rl'or-rld ju.st get up and walk au,ay,' he

Tbe ørLtbor, a.fonner tnentber and fficer of the FCC, spent 20 ye6n"s repot'ting on Chinese afJairs froru Hong Kong øt'tcl tbe møinlønd, t'totøbl1l for the Economist, Br-rsiness'Week anrJ th e International Herald Tlibttne. Her.fitst Asian reporting job tuøs u'itb tbe South Chin'a Molning Post øs a local reþorter in 1974, Sbe is tbe recipient of tbe Ouerseøs Press CltLb's 1991 bunctn rigbts atuørd.for her couerctge of Chinese

prison løbor exports and setaed since 1993

the

cr,s

OPC"s Freedont

has

co-chair

o.f

of tbe Pt"ess

Conunitlee.

saicl. 'They can't afford to have walk or-rt, so it will be all right fol at least the filst five years. e.u'erybody

Repñnted courl:esy of the Ouetseas Pt"ess

Club

Then we har¡e to see.' Chan said it's a ùIalch 199r THE C0RRXSPOllIlElfT

Out of mind arrdbody

Ë Ë

Men at WIPS meetings?

Edv,zard Peters spent sol-ne tirne at a ]realtl-r spa rrezLr Hua Hin in lfhrailand going tl-rror,rgh zl rigorous fitr-ress prc)grarraûle ancl otr'Ler l-realthrlz 1>r-rrsr-rits

p vlrvx watrgh. a great traveller I ' but someone who despised the

WIPS website

pollowing tlre unexpected rrrival I of a man atthe Decembelspealcer

meeting, Lynette Clemetson, \MPS vice

president, carried out a quick poll among attendees at the Januaty meeting to see what they felt about men coming to \øIPS events. The

currently designing

meetings. Advefiisements,

snappy website toptrbl icise its activities and the serwices

information on joining

\X/IPS is a

genelal consenslrs seemed to be that, although men should be allowed to attend meetings as gLrests, they should

of its members. Ann Beatty, dilector of Red Leal Design,

not be permitted to join the society. The committee is currently looking into the 'ùØIPS constitution to see if there are any barriers to this policy

membels and their skills, details about

being irnplemented.

innovations of his own lifetime, once bought a Victorian diptych entitled Travel 175t ancl1851. The first picture showed a stagecoach's passengers being menaced by a highwayman, the secondthe same characters in a railway

'WIPS.

committee meetings will also be available. The IX/IPS website will be attlactively illustrated, and will provide links to other useful .site.s and likeminded organisations, both local

plans to display a list of

upcoming meetings and

events, and an archive of what was said by speakels at

past

and the mimrtes of

and

international.

of the

everyday life. Meaning 'Haven of Life', Chiva Som is essentially a health resort plus plus; it takes a holistic approach to getting guests in shape, working on

waistwas too horrible to contemplate.

both mind and body short and long term and hopeftrlly doing it in a fr-tn way to boot. Designed by a Brit, the

Golf, Pool a;îd Snooker New Members There was no FCC Golf Society garne in Febluary due to the Chinese New Year holiday. Next game will be The Pacific Media Tour at the Leo Palace Resort Cor-rntry Club in Guam, Malch 74 - 75.

This is the inaugural tournament of what is planned as an annual event for FCC members anci rnembers of the Micronesian rnedia. The event is sponsored by Pacific Daily Neuts, Guam Visitors Bureau and Continental Micronesia Aillines. A full report (well, almost full ..,) from Julian lùØalsh in the next issue.

Gremlins managed to creep

into the new members page last

month, causing jr-rst about everybody to be labelled Associate

Member instead of their correct clesignation. For the record, the following

new members are all of Correspondent status: Nicholas

Tony Craig, FCC Snooker Cornmittee chairman, called from Sydney to say that the championship finals have yet to be completed, but that on his retlrrn he hopes to hold the matches in time for a report in the Aplil Correspond.ent

Reed, Chades Dickers, Meredith Belkman, Chad Rademan, Robert

Nixon, Matthew Fanar, Matthew Born and Rebecca Pock.

Tank, halfan hour ofbeing suspended in neal darkness in ten inches of saline soh-rtion, music playing and only nose, toes and one other part of me above the surface. I drifted off to the point

I was casting the

carriage presenting their tickets to the inspector. It

where

misanthropy that he should have commissioned a third

novel when the lights went up and the therapist put her

was typical of

in the screen adaptation of my best-selling chorus line

'!Øaugh's

picture -Travel

head round the door to indicate that it was time to

1951-

clepicting the horrors of an airline departure lounge. I was starting to feel a

get back to earth, or at least,

dry land. Time pressed, and

so there reglettably wasn't

cefi ain sympathy for'S7augh's point of viewwhen our plane

time to indulge further in a menlr of tleatments that included facials, hydlotherapy baths, the Chiva Som Loofah Scrub, body wraps, manicure,

was still firmly anchored to the tarmac after fivg hor-rrs

passengers gradually took on the characteristics of a human

Cbiua Som Poolside, Dusk

zoo. Just before midnight some mechanical genius neutralised whatever gremlin had been impeding our progress and we

zoomed off into the night, destination the City of Angels and Traffic Jams, Bangkok. Travel may broaden the mind but it sure narrows your tolerance levels. Rendezvousing at last with a shapely

blonde to whom I'm related by marriage, we -togetherwithPaul Hicks who hacl consented to act as chaperone - staggered into a limo for the last leg

of the journey, alriving knackered, crumplecl, grouchy, unshaven, unwashed, sleepy and devoid of conversation and the milk of hurlan kindness at Hua Hin at 5 a.rn. This is probably not a bad way to pitch up at Chiva Som, the brainchild (I'm qr-roting from the press release) of

former Depuly Prime Minister Boonchu Rojanastien, and no bad THI C0RRXSPOilIIENT March 1997

1et

Much less aggressive was the Floatation

at Kai Tak and fellow

stlaying too far below the

place to slough off the exigencies of

architecture is a happy marriage of western and Thai styles, with the columns of the Glaeco-Roman indoor

pedicurc, waxing and - ahem - G5 Vibro Massage.

The only reservation we'd had about Chiva Somwas thatthe foodwas

pool blending easilywith the sweeping pointed roofs outside. Everybody kicks off with a medical consultation - pfesumably to ensure you don't kick the bucket while being pummelled as much as to ascertain allergies, blood pressure and the like. The basic package at Chiva Som includes your meals, a rnassage a day, use of the gym, pools and sauna and

supposed to be healthy. I'd pictured mounds of grated carrot and lettuce leaves and we'd sneaked in a bottle of vodka in case things got desperate. In fact, al1 ourgleed-inducedwor-rieswele unfounded. The buffets fairly groaned at breakfast, lunch and supper with fresh hot and cold dishes, whipped up by Australian chef Andrew Jako with the aid of afat-free computerprogram. The croissants were whole-wheat, I still

steam roofirs. The more esoteric treatments are extra; take the 20-

relish a very fond lnemoly of third helpings of the date and apple roll

minlrte Body Blitz HydroJet, which is a bit like being squirted with a hose by your dad in the garden, only this costs 600 baht and you're not supposed to wliggle. The idea is the high pressure stream of watel blasts the cellulite and stimulates cilculation, but the thought

pudding one lunch time, and the more exotic sauces and jarns were on sale in the resort's boutique. A discleet sign by

each dish indicated the number of calories per spoonftrl, but that was as

far as Big Brothel is 'Síatching Your \X/aistline went.'ùØine is the onlyalcol-rol NIarch

I99T

THE CORRISPOI\IIIENT

GETWET! FCC

DMRSION SOCIETY proudly announces its Inaugural Diversion to Puerto Galera Philippines, April 24-27/S

The Societl is a chrb n'ithin a club cateling to merlbers ancl theil flier-rds who ale celtified clivels, rl'ish to take the plunge of iust cnjoy tlavelling to exotìc clestlnations, soaking r-rp the sr-rn and splasl'ring ¿uonnd in the sl'rallor-s - all at attlactively discounted lates.

Options for fun and games in Puerto Galera abound as follow's :. * I)ir,e or lealn to dive

with Asia f)ir.els, the lalgest PADI 5 Star facility in the I'l'rilippines, The PADI Intlocluction to Diving, Open \Vater' , Aclvancecl Open rü/atel and Spe ciality colll'ses ale ali available '' Golf yor-rl cares a\Ã¡ay at Puerto Galet'a's 9ìo1e tnountain conrse '' Sail into the sr-rnset * rü/ork on yor.rf irnitation of a lor,rnge lizaLcl by the pool \Øant to knou,'rnore? I{ele's the scoop: FCC Diversion Society Annual Fee: HK$i00 r'vill be billecl to yonr accor-Ìnt upon signing r-rp fol membersl-rip

Accommodation:

Departure Date:24 April - Our gloup n'ill tlavel fi'om Hong Kong to Nlanila on Philippine Air'lines PR 311 depating at 2040 hls, the transfer' by bus and lannch to Srnall La Lagr-rna Beach, Cocktails n'ill be selvecl cluring the three hour' tlansfer. retr-un available+. Simply let us

at f 50 baht fol a pelfectly acceptable Cl-rilean plonk Chief among Chiva Som's many ar.ail¿rble, starting

pleasr-res \\¡as the cornplete absence of rr-rn-of-the-rnill hotel tat; no blaring entertainels, no ankle-bitels shlieking in the pool, no notice boarcls streü,'n nith gfoup toLlr annoltncetrents, no jolly'therrrc niglrts, no l'rlass c'omings ancl goings. If you clanecl your neck l'iarcl

knor'' youlflight choice fi'orr the list of

options n'hen signing up fol the trip ancl we'11 allange yolrr return flight and airpolt tlansfel accorclingly.

1,ç1¡1

ËÐË

ilB

a E!= e ¿-flErl ì-:::!--

could see a couple of high-

rises beyond the perin'ietel, bttt otherq,.ise the in-rage of a haven was pretty LÌnass¿rilable. \ùØe could l-rave been a long way frotr-i an),'wl-lele. The other great sport at Chiva Son'l vr.as

El Galleon at Small La Lagr-rna Beach, Puerto Galela

Return Date:27 or 28 April - Inclividual

Out of mind and body

Ab oue.

Ilyclrot b erdþJ)

people watching; cottples were Relou.¡: (,lhhla Sont I''aci.al.

usualiy macle up of one v'ell-made up, slim and earnest fen'iale, scr-ttrying betu'een tai chi and yoga classes, the gym and tl-ie spzr, ancl l-ier mate, ttsually older, scanr-ring the cL'inks list for non non-alcoholic beer ancl clestinecl fol a 'cor-rlcl-c1o-better' r'eport card. An ex-

hr-rsbancl

of Bligitte

Barclot u'as

rr-unourecl to be staying; he'd be lich as Croesns, of cout'se, br-.rt n'oulcl he u'alk u.itli a sn'agger and a glint in his eye or' look bittel and har,'e an all-consr-rming clislike of animals? Saclly, we never'

made a positir.e iclentification. The Slrltan of Brr-rnei q'as dr-te in sl'ioltly, but l-re takes the place overin its entirety so getting a clekko of the ricliest rnan

the u..orld on the step macliine or clac1 only in pelspilzrtion in the sauna u.'as not an option for lts ol any fr-rtLtre Élllest fol that rratter, So, aftera clonble slice of the haven of life, u,'e heacled horne blorvnet', fitter, calmer, ancl reacly fol the fray and anything that Travel 1997 coulcl Nlake a splash - sign up fol what plomises to be tl-re filst of rnany fun excursions. Sign-r-rp sheet is postecl at the Club or yoLr can contact the FCC Divelsion Society Co-Dive Sharks fol n-rore cletails

I(a|in Malmstr'öm on tel. 2594 8800/l¡x:2537 5813 Terry Duckhar.n on tel. 2572 9544/fax:2572 3450

Deadline for sign-up, deposit and return flight request:

Aboue: þ'loatation tcntk

Belou: Bcttbittg Pauilion.

throw at us. xþ'or delails

call Tbon'tcts Cor¡k 2553 9984. A sþec'ial tbree-nigbt pcrckctge, on ollÞr tmtil tbe end o.f' ,\[arch, inclrLcling retunl btLsiness flights, cc¡sts HK$ 1 1 ,240

class

March 30 +Please ask us fol options and details fol indir,idnal retlll'ns

@ r\ialch

199-

THE C0RR.ESPOIIIIIEI{T

Pam LogaÍr aflrong wafflofs o

Recentl¡z narrred thre Eric Hotung \üÇ.orrran E><plorer of thre Yea.r, Dr Pa-rr-rela" L<>g,a"n gave up a top job as a NASA. scientist to see lfibet a.rl.d derzelop l-rer rnartial arts. Dr Loga-rL yzas at'tLre Club to girze a- slide shroqt and talk. I(arrinJones'ç /as tkrere.

arouncl the pool table playing a round of pool, a popd.ar game in the town of Tagong (as in all of Tibet), which Dr

ideas and I had a crazy rdea'. \Øhich was to find the Khampas. And after seeing the people who had protected the Dalai Lama during his escape from Tibet and had waged

Pamela Logan had just started.

guerrilla war against the Chinese

'Ttn" ancient warriors, known as I tl,e Khampas, were standing

The Khampas are a proud people and regard

to old Cathay (two of them now bitumen highways), rescues from snowslotms, and fascinating encounters

with Tibetan Buddhism folm the stuff of Logan's book Among rï/arriors: A Martial Artist in Tibet. And her new role as

director of a project

themselves as being rather

restoring Tibetan temple

propensity for banditry on

murals, sponsored by the China Exploration and Research Society,

the Tìbetan plateaux for

facilitates her continuing

known.

connection with the Roof of the Vorld.

handsome. But it is their fighting ability and

which they are really

And it is their spirit

scientist, olrt

Earthqrrakes and rain have damaged the only

rocket her ivory

which drew Logan,

remaining Dege style of

painting at the Baiya

tower, into Tibet and finally

monastery, east of the Tibetan Autonomous

to the small town square. \X/as there a connection, she wondered, between

Region boarder;

herself, a martial artist and

conservators must load

the Khampas?

their equipment on horse

Martial arts

back and ride the five hour journey to save this heritage. Italian

ate

supposed to be a method ior fighting and becoming a warrior. Logan had been

practising karate

for' thirteen years and the irony

conselvators are teaching Pam logan

of a middle classAmericantraining in a

city studio was not lost on her. '\Øhat I wanted to know is: Are these people who have tested their skills daily as guerrillas so clifferent in

their expression and practice of warriorhood to my practice of it?' She had to find out. So Logan approached the American-based Durfee Foundation. 'They wanted to give money to people who had crazy fHE CORRXSP0I\IIIENT March 1997

tlitb

bike on tbe Karakoram bigbuay, soutb ofKasbgar

then, Logan assured herself, it would be straight back to the ivory tower. 'Tibet was weird, wonderful and

unexpected. It operated on my psyche in a way I never thought it could. I tried to put my life back together after this experience but it didn'twork. However, I didn't set or-lt to be an explorer'. Hel search for the Khampas, the

travels along ancienl catavaî routes

Top: as

Khamptl ;tstride a beatttiful

part

steed.

of Rintpoche's bonour gtr.ard

Top Rigbt: Heart-stoPþingly bandsome

monks to maintain the

Kbampa (Pam logan's words)

murals themselves.

photograþbed otttside Iitang lnonasteD)

During sumfirer, Logan can be found there too, although it would hardly be surprising if she were discoverecl challenging awanior to a game of pool. She says they are really

Rigbt. Patlquixg monastery, site of c

on s e ru6tt io

þro:¡ e c t

competitive. But one has a sneaking suspicion that the Khampas will have a tough time beating this particular warrior.

@ March1997 THE

CORRf,SPOilDDIIT

Asùø's

tínest

Mørcbes On I(erzin Sinclair hra-s rerzised l-ris -¿uthorative v.¡ork on tl-re R-o;zal I{ong I{ong Police

n 198J Club member Kevin Sinclair

chronicled the Royal Hong Kong

Police force underthe title,4siø's Finest. Toþ: Early constables uore green themselues tbe

nickname,

tmiforttls eanùng

lu.k yee (green coats)

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Below: Scottisb pipers from regular and auxiliary Pipes 8 Drt'nns bands 'Beating tbe Retrentl

It has generally been acknowledged as the most autholitative tome on the

subject ever

written. It is now

considered a collector's item, all 3,000 copies being snapped up instantly on

publication.

Now Sinclair, ably assisted by co-writer Nelson Ng Kwok-cheung - a hotel management graduate from the Hong Kong Polytechnic, apparently, as well as being a talented writer', has updated the book uncler the heading Asiø's Finest Marcbes On This 'coffee table', fully illustrated production covers the full 152 years of the RHKP - quite why the authors did not come up with the bookto coincide

with the force's 150th anniversary two years ago is not explained - fi'om 1841

through to the present day. The prefix'Royal' was only glanted by Hel Majesty the Queen in April 1969 to the Hong Kong Police Force and the Hong Kong Auxiliar-y Police Force, which now con-iprises 27,000 regulars,

000 auxiliary volunteers ancl

6,000 civilians.

There are identical English ancl Chinese velsions of the book, with all

illustrations lemaining the same. THE C0RRDSPOilDEIIIT March 1997

Translation was professionally carlied or-rt, with co-author Ng checking the ensuing mannscripts and Cathy Chan, a formel senior editor with the now deftrnct Sing Tøo Jib Pøo, editing fr,rrther for nuances and style. The print run for Asia's Finest Mørcbes On was exrended to 6,000, 3,000 in each language.

There is inevitably a chapter devoted to the corl'upt wlongdoings

of Peter Godbel and Taffy Hunt and for anyone not in Hong KonginI973, it details the facts of Godber's escape and subsequent extradition. It also notes that the then governor, Sir (now Lord) Mulray Maclehose, establishecl the ICAC as a separafe body chalged

Vietnamese camps and the recurring

violence within the camps. There is an excellent chapter on the many and varied duties of the Marine Police

and one on combating triads. If there is a cliticisrn it is that too little space has been devoted to the Police

Mnseum, located halfway up the Peak.

This is the twelfth book Kevin Sinclair has wrítten but the first he has published himself. Sinclair claims that althoughthe exercise is bothfi-urstrating and a lengthy process it can be 'fun and plofitable'.

Illustlating the reports aÍe many histolic photographs - rnost black and white which lend an autholitative air

with investigating and eliminating

to the book - while

corruption.

photographs are plovided by Chan Yuen-nan, for-merly of the South Cbina Morning Post. Asiø's Finest Mørcbes Oz is worth

The establishment of the ICAC was a controvel'sial move, viewed by manywithin the Fol'ce as unnecessaly in that it was the Force's own efforts which unearthed Godber and Hnnt. A number of officers, thourgh, felt a sense of relief that here was an inclependent body which would remove the burden of investigating theil colleagues. There are chapters devoted to the

7966 Star Ferry riots, the role of police dogs within the Force, the

modern

as it records much of Hong Kong itself as well as the happenings within the RHKP. In years to come it will provide an insight into life before

purchasing

Chinese rr,rle.

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