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From: hpang@engin.umich.edu (Ho Sun Pang)
Subject: Re: Boston
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 11:17:54 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

In article <C0D8EM.LML@world.std.com> afung@world.std.com (Albert K Fung) writes:
>
>MIT tends to be a bit research and academic oriented while Harvard's "case"
>approach offers a slightly better view into the real world.
>

Actually, MIT's Sloan School requires very very very very very strong
mathematics background (2 of my friends at Sloan told me so).

>
>Northeastern University, Emerson College, Boston University and a few other
>smaller colleges all offer direct studies in the disciplines with different
>flavors. Unfortunately, I don't have first hand info. on their programs.
>I'm sure other netters can fill you in on them.
>

To elaborate more on this:

Northeastern Univ.:  I went there for 1 year before transfering to Cornell.
		     It is a very big co-op school so it's good if you are
 		     tight on money and want a good resume.  The profs. are
		     so-so.  The neighborhood is ok.  The tuition is 
	       	     expensive (same as MIT) but co-op money could help a lot.
		     The down side is nobody knows Northeastern outside Boston.
		     The univ. is small in size (but heck, 50K+ students!).

		     P.S.  The famous Symphony Hall, which is one of the 3
			   accoustically best concert halls in the world and
			   home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the
			   Boston Pops, is only 1 block away from NU.

Emerson College:  Knows nothing about its program.  The neighbor is not very
	    	  good at night.  Very easy to get in.  Cheap tuition.  Good
		  for you if you wanna spend 1st two years there (to fulfill
		  general degree requirements) and then transfer.

Suffolk Univ.:  May be you want to consider something else.

Tufts Univ.  :  Pretty good reputation.  Expensive tuition.  Very nice
		neighborhood.  Virtally all of its programs are very good.
		But the size of the school is so small, it is as difficult to
		get in as Harvard and Yale (according to many statistics)

U.Mass Boston:  Nuh.


Usual disclaimer applies.


- Louis Pang
From: Joseph.Lai@f261.n700.z6.fidonet.org (Joseph Lai)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Boston
Date: 8 Jan 1993 04:33:45 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


I am in Hong Kong. I am interested in the studying in BU. Could u tell me
more about this u, especially in the subjects available, finacial requirement,
etc.
Thanks a lot.
Joseph


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From: shchow@vela.acs.oakland.edu (CHOW SUK HAN EUREKA)
Subject: Re:Passport renewal
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:05:37 GMT

I did the same thing about 5 years ago.  It took me about 10 working days.

Eureka
From: glin@cs.ubc.ca (Geng Lin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: Leon Songs.
Date: 12 Jan 1993 15:24:47 -0800
Organization: Computer Science Dept, UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: pacific.cs.ubc.ca

test. please ignore.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: akwy@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Alan Kin Wah YIM)
Subject: Our new volunteer of HKPA (Was: New Picture Posted)
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 12:20:00 GMT

wskan@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Fran Kan) writes:

>HONG KONG PICTURES ARCHIVE - (HKPA.MISC)
>========================================
>NEW PICTURE POSTINGS
>====================

>I posted a comic picture in alt.binaries.picture.misc.

>Here is the description:

>File: seto01.gif       
>Size: 243k
>Description: Cover of 'Andy Seto Art Illustration
>Resolution: 529x1000x256

>Enjoy!

>Fran

Hi fellows, Fran Kan (wskan@vela.acs.oakland.edu) is now a new volunteer
for HKPA.MISC, looking after any incoming Hong Kong made comic pictures.
However, contributors must forward the pictures to Thomas Wong
(twong@civil.ubc.ca) as usual until further notices.

The new sub-archive for HK comic pictures will be created when the time
is appropriate. At the time being all comic pictures will be put into
HKPA.MISC sub-archive.

The acceptance criteria for comic pictures has not been worked out yet.
However, contributors should stick to the criteria for HKPA.MISC (see
soc.culture.hongkong FAQ, part IV or README.DONORS file in ftp site
asia.lcs.mit.edu for details) at the moment.

Thanks for supporting HKPA. Have a prosperous 1993!!

Alan, HKPA.POPSTARS maintainer,
      soc.culture.hongkong FAQ, Part IV maintainer,
      HK comic picture collections task force
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From: wskan@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Fran Kan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: Chinese fonts and text editor for Windows ?
Date: 11 Jan 93 18:15:02 GMT
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.

In article <11623@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> anthony@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
>Could someone please point me to a Chinese text editor for MS
>Windows ?  In particular Chinese fonts that I can include in
>other Window applications.
>--
>Anthony Lee (Time Lord Doctor) (These are my opinions !)
>email: anthony@cs.uq.oz.au	voice:+(61)-7-3651204 FAX:+(61)-7-3651999
>SNAIL: Department Computer Science, The University of Queensland, 
>       St Lucia, Qld 4072, Australia

Maybe you will find Chinese Windows useful, however, they only have the
3.0 version, i.e., some software maybe not be supported.

Fran
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: chang@esd.dl.nec.com (Billy Chang)
Subject: Passport renewal
Organization: Engineering and Support Division, NEC America, Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 23:16:39 GMT

		Look in your local yellow pages under passport services. There are
businesses that provide passport expediting sevice (from 1 day to 1 week). Here in
Dallas, the closest passport office is in Houston (I think). I don't know about 
Austin.
From: dandus@cs.utexas.edu (Daniel Hok-Yin Chan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: Internet in Hong Kong
Date: 5 Jan 1993 12:55:09 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: muleshoe.cs.utexas.edu

In article <34902.2B4931AD@puddle.fidonet.org> Anthony.Kwan@f487.n700.z6.fidonet.org (Anthony Kwan) writes:
!
!On <Dec 22 15:20>, Samson Luk of 6:700/1.301@fidonet wrote to Gary Ng:
!
! SL> What do you mean by cheaper than HKPCUG?!?  Your BBS charge user 
! SL> HK$80.00 per MONTH while HKPCUG charge *NOTHING* except the $2.50 
! SL> per outgoing message for users who only want the e-mail service - 
! SL> users do *NOT* need to join as HKPCUG Member to use e-mail in our 
! SL> BBS.  Users may even send e-mails for FREE via other FidoNet BBS 
! SL> in HK and HKPCUG provides routing of e-mails to/from Internet as 
! SL> a courtesy to ALL FidoNet BBS in HK as well as in Asia.
!

My parents send roughly (estimated) 50+ email through GNCT.  I think
they benefit from GNCT more than HKPCUG.  Moreover, HKPCUG is always
busy.

-- Daniel
From: jeffy@bass.bu.edu (jeff yuan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: About flower
Date: 9 Jan 93 04:32:59 GMT
Reply-To: jeffy@bass.bu.edu (jeff yuan)
Followup-To: soc.culture.hongkong
Organization: Boston University


In article <1993Jan8.233154.29636@dsg.tandem.com> leung@DSG.Tandem.COM 
(Steven Leung) writes:

...
>People tend to think that a beautiful butterfly standing on a blossoming flower
>constitutes a beautiful picture. From the flowers' viewpoint, they also always
>prefer butterflies over bees (and large ones over small ones) to visit them.
>But unlike bees who intentionally visit the flowers, the butterflies appear to
>be on the flowers just by chance. (I always have a hard time to figure out what
>the butterfly tries to do when it stands on a flower.) ...

Beautiful imagery indeed.  But I don't think the flower cares particularly
whether a bee or a butterfly visits.  They both serve the same purpose: sex.
Yes, that's how plants have sex and transmit their pollen.  And the bee and
butterfly are also in a symbiotic bondage (:-) with the flower.  The flower
provides nourishment, namely nectar.  So life is not as chancey as one thinks.

Jeff
From: hchu@nynexst.com (Harry Chu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: Pay Range in HK
Date: 8 Jan 93 18:56:26 GMT
Reply-To: hchu@nynexst.com
Organization: NYNEX Science & Technology, Inc

In article 26574@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU, mcleung@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Man C. Leung) writes:
> In article <93Jan7.150923est.251205-1@descartes.uwaterloo.ca> mkcman@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Marcus Man) writes:
[Deleted]
> Tax rate for singles at 40K is above 30%, twice as much as the 15%
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> flat rate in HK.  I don't know what the cost of living in HK is
> nowadays.  Can someone take that into consideration and come up
> with some objective/subjective evaluations?
> 
> 
> 
> Man C. Leung
> 


The U. S. does not have a flat tax rate.  For Federal taxes, the rates are 15%, 28%,
and 31%, depending on your income. Of course, you have to add any state and local 
income taxes.  But even if your marginal tax rate is 31%, you don't pay 31% on the
entire amount.  Maybe an example can clarify this.  I don't remember the break down
of the tax brackets.  For the purpose of this example, let's assume that the brackets
are as follows: 15% for income of 0 - $20,000; 28% for income of $20,000 to $35,000;
and 31% for income exceeding $35,000.  For a person earning $50,000 a year, assuming
that he/she takes the standard deduction, plus one exemption, you can subtract at 
least $5000 from your taxable income.  That leaves you with $45,000 of taxable income.
You pay 15% taxes on the first $20,000, 28% on the next $15,000, and 31% only for 
the remaining $10,000 of your taxable income.  So when you average out the tax rates,
the effective rate is way below 30%.   In addition, you can still have a lot of
deductions to shield your income.  For example, the interest payment on your house
mortgage, and your contribution to the 401(k) plan (up to about $9,000 a year) both
can reduce your taxable income substantially.  If your company offers it, the
Helath Care Spending Plan can make your health care spending tax deductible.   If you
have kids, the Dependent Spending Account can reduce your taxable income by another
$4,800.  With all these deductions, my effective tax rate (e.g. total taxes paid/ total
income) is only 20%, even though my wife and I have a combined six figure income and
I live in the tax hell of America, New York City.  Studies show that the average
effective tax rate for all Americans is about 20%, and it is among the lowest among
the industrialized countries.  

I don't know anything about the tax system in Hong Kong.  Is it a flat rate tax
applied to all income?  are there any deductions?   Can someone enlighten me?


Harry Chu

Even though the rates seem to be quite high, the effective rate that 
you pay can be substantially lower 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: john@jho.com (John Ho)
Subject: SCMP Scan Test Run
Summary: SCMP Scan Test Run
Keywords: News
Organization: JHO Company, Dallas, Texas USA
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 15:32:39 GMT


Our buddy Samson Luk "gu_jc3@stu.ust.hk" in HK has finally had time
to figure out the scanner at work and the article below is a test
run from the SCMP 1/5/93.

Thanks, Samson.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Here is the article after playing around with OmniPage for 15 minutes :-)

SCMP Technology Post  HongKong, Tuesday, January 5, 1993

Keeping on-line sex in line

NEWS reports from Britain claim that women involved in the "telephone
sex" business are rushing to order "new videophones, so punters can
watch them perform disgusting live sex shows".

   Anyone who can afford to pay the price (HK$6,000) "will be able to
dial the sex lines which will put them face to face with a hooker,"
according to newspaper reports.

   Which makes us wonder just how long it will take for the debate to
heat up in Hongkong - given that Hongkong Telecom will start selling
videophones here later this month.

   Videophones pose some interesting regulatory questions, not the least
of which would be which department will look into the videophone-sex
issue.

   Precisely how they will be policed is unclear.

   What is certain is that policing the videophones, should any
authority feel particularly bothered, will be extremely difficult.

   The Telecommunications Authority certainly doesn't want to do it. "I
don't think that we're in charge of the morality of the public," a
spokesman said yesterday.

   It's doubtful that the Television and Entertainment Licensing
Authority is going to be too keen.

   The services may be accessible, but you could not say they were being
"broadcast".

   And I'm sure Hongkong Telecom would probably prefer to pull their own
teeth than be lumbered with some kind of ad hoc watchdog role, although
they would probably pass on complaints.

   It is all very tedious. My suggestion would be for Government to
pretend this nonsense does not exist.

   Overly anxious parents should keep the videophone under lock and key.

   The machines being sold in the UK are developed by GEC-Marconi - the
same standard as those being sold in Hongkong (MCI in the US will also
sell them, incidentally).

   So punters can get their jollies anyway by simply dialling IDD.
(That's the part Hongkong Telecom would love.)

JAMES RILEY


-- 
John Ho from Dallas, Texas USA. (john@jho.com)
From: mcleung@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Man C. Leung)
Subject: Re: About flower
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:07:59 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.233154.29636@dsg.tandem.com> leung@DSG.Tandem.COM (Steven Leung) writes:
[deleted]
>
>Steven
>-- 
>328. Seek opportunity, not security. ...
>        - Life's Little Instruction Book by H. J. Brown, Jr.
>


I don't usually have overwhelming enjoyment for flowers but I find this
post about flowers rather enjoyable.  I would like to read more about
flowers, bees, and butterflies from those who know how they work.


Man C. Leung.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: alaw@elaine10.Stanford.EDU (Alvin Law)
Subject: Re: NFC/AFC Conference Championship Games
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: 4 Jan 93 17:13:42

chow@cssn0b.ssc.gov (Ivan Chow) writes:
>    Do you know if Hong Kong TVB or ATV? will broadcast
>these events live in Hong Kong?  I think the super bowl is.
>But not sure about these conference title games.

Back in 1989 and 1990, TVB Pearl do carry the NFC championship game,
so I guess they will still broadcast the NFC game (usually the late
game), if you don't mind waking up at around 4:00am Monday morning.

Highlight can be found from the CNN news coverage in Tuesday morning
for Sunday games and Wednesday morning for MNF around 7:45am (could be
8:45am) on ATV World Channel, or you can buy the USA Today
international on Tuesday.  That's how one can keep track of NFL action
in Hong Kong.



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From: Anthony.Kwan@f487.n700.z6.fidonet.org (Anthony Kwan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: netters from Macao ?
Date: 5 Jan 1993 01:20:10 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


On <Dec 29 00:08>, Wang Gang of 6:700/1.300 wrote to All:

 WG> From: wang@apache.dtcc.edu (Wang Gang)
 WG> Organization: Delaware Technical & Community College

 WG> Just curious: Does Macao have access to this newsgroup? Internet?

 WG> 'cause I have a friend in Macao.

I will forward your message to the Macau sysop's echo for their info. 
thanks for reminding us.


      BR, Anthony Kwan - Environment + IT Net
Internet: anthony.kwan@f487.n700.z6.fidonet.org

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From: labson@borneo.corp.sgi.com (Joel Labson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Chinese New Year
Date: 5 Jan 93 14:39:42 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

I'd like to know all the ANIMALS used to name a year, I know this coming
Chinese new year will be the year of the CHICKEN??? also I'd like to
know the meaning for each animals????? Thanks Very Much......- joel

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From: jinguo@euler.mcs.utulsa.edu (Niu Jinguo)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: chinese chess prg. wanted
Date: 11 Jan 1993 22:24:54 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Hi, Dear netter:
I will appreciate very much if somebody tell me where I can find
a chinese chess game, either on unix,x-window, or PC.
Thanx in advance.
jinguo Niu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: jswlee@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (*** Joanne Lee ***)
Subject: Re : pictures
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:10:12 GMT


Can anyone tell me how can I get the pictures posted
in alt.binaries.pictures ?? 
  
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: ee_hflo@uxmail.ust.hk (Michael Lo Ho Fung)
Subject: Re: ftp site
Organization: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 06:31:36 GMT

Thomas F. (thomas@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca) wrote:
: can anyone out there remind me where the ftp site of those
: hk scenic gifs is? i just can't remember the address.

	asia.lcs.mit.edu


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Subject: Re: Question: Any Commercial Systems in HK?
From: jonc@status.gen.nz (Jon Clarke)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 23:53:11 GMT
Organization: The Z*NET Global News Gateway in Parnell New Zealand.

Raju.Daryanani@p309.f1.n700.z6.fidonet.org (Raju Daryanani) writes:

> 
> In a msg on <Jan 07 03:58>, Iu King Fung of iu051@cs.cuhk.hk  writes:
> 
>  IKF> Organization: Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese U. of Hong Kong
> 
>  IKF> Yes, I know one at least.  It is called compuserve and is a 
>  IKF> service provided by Huchison Information.  The subscribers 
>  IKF> to the service can access to the network that we are using.  
>  IKF> However, the fees for subscription is not known.
> 
> The link between Compuserve and the Internet is mail only.  Nothing else! 
> CI$ is also very expensive.  I believe Hutchison charges over HK$5 per minute
> of connect time for a 2400bps link, plus a monthly membership fee.
> 
 
 You could connect to CI$ via the PDN in HK Datapak, and it is cheap
 also BT have several nodes in HK you can use.


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Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: cs921018@ariel.yorku.ca (NELSON A REATEGUI)
Subject: Re: Leon Songs.
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:17:25 GMT

Sorry, I haven't figure out how to include more one file per message...
oh well. Here comes the 2nd Leon song...

If anyone wants me to romanize any songs from the new Jackie Cheung album
(Oi Fo Fa), just drop me an e-mail, or respond here...

Without further delay, here's the 2nd Leon song, that's all for now...


                 Ngoh Oi IchiBan

Seung bat dou hon jeuk nei    Ngoh Jeung yau go mung
Yat chai ting ji joi haau leui
Bat gun tin yi hak   Bat gun sam yi leui   Waak si yau jeui
Gu bat dou   yuen dei leui   go bit liu yi hau
Ging joi do gan nei seung jeui
Taan tik dik ngoh sam   si si dik wai geui   mak mak oi seui
bat ji bat gok jung    yau joi seung
nei si dung yan dik bun leui
yeuk je haak chung chung go cheui
seui yuen yi yat saang dou hung heui

Oh my love You're ICHIBAN
mou leun nei gan ngoh lei hoi yuen gan
kei sat ngoh chuen bo oi yi ging ban heung nei
You're the only one
Oh my love You're ICHIBAN
yu ling ngoh yat joi kong seung fong yam
fong chi chung waan mung dik sai gaai
Goodbye Loneliness




Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: alaw@elaine10.Stanford.EDU (Alvin Law)
Subject: Re: Pay Range in HK
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
	<1993Jan7.192243.8043@oracle.us.oracle.com>
	<1993Jan7.224117.8219@mprgate.mpr.ca>
Date: 7 Jan 93 16:51:00

jiang@mpr.ca (Jie C. Jiang) writes:
>In article <1993Jan7.192243.8043@oracle.us.oracle.com> I wrote:
>>
>>As compared to the US, which region are you talking about?  It varies a lot
>>even along the Pacific coast line from Southern California to the Bay Area
>>to the Pacific Northwest.  But in general, the gross pay would be slightly
>>lower, but the take home pay, unless you're a US citizen/PR, would be
>			  	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>comparable.  Remember you are talking about a 30+% tax in US compared to
>>a flat 15% in Hong Kong.
>>
>
>What difference will it make if I am a US/Canadian citizen/PR? Can anybody
>enlighten me on this?

If you are a US citizen, you're required to file the Federal Income
Tax form even if you're working overseas.  You are also required to
pay the full 15% FICA as compared to 7.5% FICA when you're employed in
the US.  The amount you have to pay IRS is the difference between the
US tax amount and the HK tax amount, but since US tax is 30+% while HK
tax is 15%, you round up paying full US tax of 30+%.  The only tax
shelter you can get would probably be capital gain tax (unless you are
a fool and file all capital gains in your tax return).

The same is true for Canadian citizen/PR.
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From: yyy@engr.LaTech.edu (Yan Y. Yu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: good new years
Date: 10 Jan 1993 09:49:30 GMT
Organization: Louisiana Tech University
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I'm not sure how to read your message, any suggestions?