HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: akwy@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Alan Kin Wah YIM)
Subject: [HKPA.POPSTARS] New picture posted- iwan02.gif
Keywords: HKPA, HKPA.POPSTARS, GIF
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 12:39:08 GMT

HONG KONG PICTURES ARCHIVE - POPSTAR COLLECTION (HKPA.POPSTARS)
===============================================================
NEW PICTURE POSTING
===================
 
WARNING: In order to protect the pictures and the contributors,
         all HKPA pictures are not allowed to be sold.

New pictures are posted to the following newsgroups:

alt.binaries.pictures
alt.binaries.pictures.misc

They will be available in ftp sites soon.

filename   : iwan02.gif
description: Half portrait of Irene Wan Pik-Ha
category   : Hong Kong actress
image      : 500x694x256 color
filesize   : 217782 bytes
contributor: HO OAI

Yes! This is another quality collection from me. Hope you enjoy it!

Contributions are welcome. Please read README.DONORS in directory
/pub/hongkong/gif/popstars		of ftp site: nok.lcs.mit.edu OR
/pub/pics/gif/pics/tv+film/HKstar	of ftp site: nic.funet.fi
for contribution rules, how to uuencode and contribute pictures.
However, the easiest method is to uuencode the picture file and mail it to
Thomas Wong <twong@civil.ubc.ca>. Contributors must not upload the files to ftp 
sites themselves. All types of picture file format are welcome. We will convert
them to GIF format.

Thank you for supporting HKPA.POPSTARS. Please keep it alive.

Enjoy!
Alan of HKPA.POPSTARS.
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Subject: GIF Picture Postings - mchan{01,02}.gif
Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 19:21:17 GMT


HONG KONG PICTURES ARCHIVE - POPSTAR COLLECTION (HKPA.POPSTARS)
===============================================================
NEW PICTURE POSTINGS
====================

Hello everyone. I just posted two pictures of Monica Chan to
alt.binaries.pictures and alt.binaries.pictures.misc as follows:

File: mchan01.gif
Description: Monica Chan (Chan Fat Yung)
Resolution: 415 x 510 x 256 colors
Contributor: David So @ Rutgers University

File: mchan02.gif
Description: Monica Chan (Chan Fat Yung)
Resolution: 373 x 242 x 256 color
Contributor: David So @ Rutgers University

Special thanks to David So for his pictures.

Alan will upload these pictures to the ftp sites soon.

Enjoy!

Thomas.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: mkwan@esk.compserv.utas.edu.au (Michael C. KWAN)
Subject: Re: Student Beauty Pageant in Melbourne
Organization: University of Tasmania at Launceston
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 23:50:02 GMT

In article <oyang.716524569@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au>, oyang@cs.monash.edu.au (Kai Shing O'Yang) writes:
>	I suppose people haven't got much to do nowadays. The Hong Kong
>Students' Assoc. in Melbourne University will hold its Beauty Pageant in

	When ???  Where ???  I will be back to Melbourne by the end of this
year and I would like to have a look.


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               \/ <---- Tasmania           * 7248, Tasmania, Australia.     *
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: jesse@cs.UAlberta.CA (Jesse Lee)
Subject: Applying H1 visa outside USA
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 18:06:45 GMT

Hi. I post the same question to the newsgroup alt.visa.us but get no
response. I hope someone reading this newsgroup can help me.

I am a foreign student in Canada and a US company may be interested to
hire me. The company would like to know what the standard procedures
should be to get me a H1 visa. They ask if they are needed to demonstrate
no US citizen can do the job except me. Does anyone has similar
experience?

Jesse Lee
jesse@cs.ualberta.ca
From: john@jho.com (John Ho)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: HKPA - Picture file requests/contributions....
Date: 14 Sep 92 00:52:51 GMT
Organization: Software Programming, Inc., Dallas, Texas USA

henryc@panix.com (Henry Chan) writes:

>In article <1992Sep11.030532.3371@jho.com> john@jho.com (John Ho) writes:
>>
>>Can someone in Syracuse ask Pricilla Chan to get on SCHK and say
>>hello to her fans? :)  How about a On-line Pricilla Chan Fan Club ? :)
>>-- 

>John, I remember someone posting a message a long time ago claiming to be
>dating one of the stars.  Forgot if it was Pricilla or someone else.

I remembered that and I have serious doubt with that guy's creditbility.
I think he just said it to draw a moment of attention.  Kids act. 
-- 
John Ho from Dallas, Texas USA. (john@jho.com)           - No news is bad news.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: edward@leland.Stanford.EDU (EDWARD YIM)
Subject: Re: From Stars to Students.....
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 00:49:14 GMT

In article <1992Sep15.203045.3121@jho.com> john@jho.com (John Ho) writes:
>SFF went to some kind of "wild chicken" college and got a degree in Dancing.
>I remembered that I looked up her school many many years ago and I couldn't 
>find it in any reputatable catalog.  Must be another one of those Ocean
>Pacific University kind.  $50 for a Master and $100 for a Ph.D 
>diploma, anybody? :) 
>

I'm not SFF fan and I'm actually not old enough to be her fan anyway.  But
I think she does not deserve such unpleasant comments like this.  I don't know
where she got her degree and what degree she got.  She may have been really
fooling around when she was studying out here.  Even if she did go to a
wild chicken school, so what?  Does going to a bad school mean anything?
Remember that she left HK when she was still popular and she gave all her
money she earned to her mother before she left.  Her mother still hated her 
for not going on to earn more money.  She was POOR when she was out here and
what school you expect her to attend regarding her financial status and, more
important, her education - not even finished primary school?  No matter how
easy it is to earn the "useless" degree from a wild chicken school for most
people, I think it wouldn't be an "easy-job" for SFF.  I think she was brave.

Also, she is now very active in fighting resources for the deaf because she 
is almost deaf now.  But she still positively faces the reality and does
constructive things.  I think she deserves some respect.

I know the original posting didn't say she was stupid, bad or something, but 
the tone talking about her degree wasn't very pleasant afterall.  Again I ain't
no her fan.  I just think she shouldn't deserver this.  

Ed

P.S.  Am I too serious about this?  Maybe I am.  Or maybe everything I heard
about her is not true.  But when I am so stupid to believe it, I feel like
saying something for her.
From: YOUNG@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Charles Young)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: San Francisco
Date: 15 Sep 92 17:16:21 GMT
 <4466@equinox.unr.edu>
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

In article <4466@equinox.unr.edu>, chiu@pyramid.unr.edu (Edward S.N.Chiu) says:
>
>In article <9209101742.AA17615@pserv.CFSMO.Honeywell.COM>
>bonl2@cfsmo.honeywell.com (Boniface Lee--IO) writes:
>>
>>
>>P.S.  How long is the drive from SF to Reno or Lake Tahoe?
>>
>
>It takes 4 hours to drive from SF to Reno. (Use I-80)
>It takes 30-45mins to drive from Reno to Lake Tahoe. (Use US395+MtRoseHwy)
>It takes about 4-5 hrs to drive from SF to Lake Tahoe.(Use I-80,US 50)
>


Switch the time estimates for Reno and Lake Tahoe. The latter is
somewhat closer to San Francisco than the former. BTW, if you keep
to the speed limit, you might want to add 1/2 hour to those numbers.
From: yuk@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Yuk Lun Chan)
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 08:20:16 GMT
Subject: Re: Territory of Ancient China : Song Dynasty
Organization: Hewlett-Packard ISG-SBU-PWD, UK.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong

>soc.culture.hongkong / claudius@leland.Stanford.EDU (Nelson Lu) /  2:37 am  Sep  8, 1992 /
>In article <9225200.21615@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> dht@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Joyous Dave baby) writes:
>>
>>**Area under Central Influence:
>>
>>Manchuria and parts of Inner Mongolia and GanSu, although not
>>under Central Control, were subject to major influences from
>>Song.

>This is not correct.  (Unless you are talking about Jin, which I didn't think
>you were)  Before Jin's rise, current-day Manchuria and Inner Mongolia were
>controlled by Liao, which is *definitely* not influenced by Song in any way.
>(In fact, Song paid tributes to Liao)  Western Inner Mongolia and Ning Hsia
>was controled by West Hsia.
>----------
Influence in culture, yes, both Liao and Jin developed their characters from
Chinese character. Both of them have will to take over Song. Throughout the
history of China, most of the so called "outter race" invaded mainland in
a way very different from the invasions in the west like Roman. Every time
these "outter race" occupied a large area in mainland, they would MOVED
their capital to mainland and acted like most of the regional Chinese rulers,
fight for the ruler of the world (Empiror of China). With this in mind,
Liao, Jin and Hsia can be considered as strong Chinese influence. Another
point, in Liao and Jin, most of the population were Chinese, the number of real
"outter race" were very small. And during the war with Song, most of the 
soldiers (even general, remember the general who destoried south Song)
were Han Chinese. If one consider the north countries in north-south dynasty
were Chinese, one should consider Liao, Jin, Hsia and Mongo were Chinese.

Yuk
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: leung@DSG.Tandem.COM (Steven Leung)
Subject: Re: American society
Keywords: names
Organization: Tandem Computers
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 19:08:52 GMT

dchan@cisco.com (Derek Chan) writes:

> ... I think it may be true that
> with their educational background it won't make much difference if you are on
> welfare or being employed working hard. My theory is that the welfare is paying
> too much for these people so that they are not motivated to work. 

There are indeed many cases that _appear_ to support what you say here. One
case I particularly felt very angry is a mother on welfare who tries to save
money from the welfare money in planning to pay for her son/daugther's 
education gets cancellation of the welfare payment because of the saving.
This is beyond simply "not motivating" people to work: it is punishing those
who plan on moving upward!

Despite of this, however, I think we should be prudent to avoid making
conclusions based on individual cases. There is no perfect system that
can avoid abuse. Yes, what you say is one of the symptoms indicating
the welfare system needs improvement, but I'm not sure it is the most
crucial one. Besides, it is only a symptom, not the cause. My conjecture
(I'm hesitated to call it theory) is that the problem lies in the welfare 
establishment. I always wonder what is the percentage of the welfare money
going into those who manage the money vs. those who really benefits from
the program. Is there any legislation that regulates at least certain
percentage of the money be directed to the needed? (But even so, bureaucrats
can still hide their share in various budget details.) The abuse by those who 
have direct interests in the establishment itself is probably a greater
threat than the abuse by the welfare receipants. (The public school
education establishment may have the same problem, agian, my conjecture.)

> It's a well known fact that the chinese/vietnamese community is taking full
> advantage of the welfare system. In order to be qualified for  welfare, they
> do all kinds of tricks. They can't keep their money in the bank. Cash/jewlery
> are kept in bank accounts of the close relatives. What happen if they have no
> one to go to? (all relatives on welfare or no close relatives) They keep it
> at home.

First, I'm not sure it is a well known fact. Second, there is nothing wrong
to take full "advantage of" anything, but abusing the welfare system (which
is what you actually described here) is of course another matter. Third, I
indeed know quite a number of people doing that, but in all the cases I know,
they are trying to avoid the tax, rather than aiming at abusing the welfare
system. Fourth, I think it is not prudent to generalize the phenomenon to
"the chinese/vietnamese community" as a whole.

Steven
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From: rkwst+@pitt.edu (Raymond K Wong)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: How to tell if he/she is from HK?
Keywords: style
Date: 10 Sep 92 22:33:01 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <18o9q2INNjlc@agate.berkeley.edu> c60b-3gj@web-3d.berkeley.edu (Leo Wong) writes:
>-As Chinese, our hair texture is very different from Occidentals.  Having 
> long hair requires special attention.  Guys trying to get a long hair should
> trim their hair appropriately on a regular basis.  Some people just sit on 
> their butt letting their hair grow.  They usually end up looking like lost
> dogs with lots of fleas.

True.  I have maintained a semi-long hair before and it was a pain to keep it
looking good.  And mind you, my hair has a bit wave in it...not like it's 
completely straight. I have also seen some oriental guy with a head of 
beautiful, well trimmed hair.  And then there are some with a mess on their
heads even if the hair is short.

>-According to my American friends,  guys wearing earings on their
> right ear means that they are GAY.  Don't send out the wrong signal! 

Not true anymore.  Nowadays you can't tell if someone is gay by how and where
he wears his ear rings.  There are guys who wear them on both sides and they
are straight as an arrow.  Besides, if you are cool enough to get your ear
pierced, you would probably not care about if someone thinks you are gay or not,
even if you aren't.

>-Asians are usually less hairy.  So if you want to grow a mustache.  Please
> check that you HAVE enough hair on your upper lips.  Otherwise, instead of 
Hahaha....exactly the reason why I don't grow one.  Well, actually I tried
once and I was mistaken as Filipino.  That's the end of my life as a mustached
man.  Which is a pity.


Ray

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: ppc1@cec1.wustl.edu (Peter Pui Tak Chiu)
Subject: Re: Old Boys of Wah Yan College Hong Kong
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:18:27 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.202701.10456@oracle.us.oracle.com> glo@dvlseq.us.oracle.com (George Lo) writes:

>There is a WYCHK news network. Probably someone will send you an
>application later.

yeah... there is one but it seems like they don't have a good system to
manage their information...  i joined it and have only gotten one newsletter...
(i joined around December last year)

Pete
From: wkau+@cs.cmu.edu (Wing Keung F Au)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: Graduate Information Request
Date: 12 Sep 92 04:26:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.BuG70E.2IM.2
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

In article <0edtYeO00WBNE3vmkb@andrew.cmu.edu> Tim Chun-tim Ip <ti05+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> ...
>As for Economics, there is another book which has graduate rankings in
>almost every major you can imagine.  That book is Gourman Report. I am
> ...

if you are looking for a good grad program in gourman report, that is
the wrong place, you should have better information from your advisor.

from one who has gone thru the hassles of applying to grad schs,




-- 

				    FRed W. Au
				    ...!cmu.edu!au+, au+@cmu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: 91066702@cphkvx.cphk.hk
Subject: Pop Charts (9.6)
Organization: The Ohio State University; Department of Phyiscs
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 07:44:32 GMT

Hi everybody,
Here comes this week's pop charts from Commercial Radio 2 again.

Pop Single chart(Tsik Tsak Ngok Tan Lau Hang Bong)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1. Kenny Bee              When you're next to me (Dong nei kau gun ngor)
 2. Leon Lai ming          My dear (Ngor dick tsun ngoi)
 3. Sally Yip Sin-man      Red dust (Hung tsun)
 4. Grasshoppers           Every bit is love (Mui yat seh ya si tsing)
 5. Law Tai-yau            Capital City (Sau dou)
 6. Yolinda Yan Cho-sin    Can you really forget me? (Nei dzun dick hall yi
                                                      mong gei ngor ma)
 7. Ngan Luen-mo           Wind in heart (Sum lui yau fung)
 8. Dicky Cheung Wai-kin   I love you (NCN)
 9. Aaron Kwok Fu-sing     You and me (NCN)
10. Taichi                 Every sentence (Mui yat goey suet wa)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
New singles in the chart
------------------------
 5. Law Tai-yau            Capital city (Sau dou)
15. Tats Lau Yee-tat       Sleep with you (Yu nei tung mean)
17. Luk Ga-dzoen           Still loving you deeply (Yee yin sum ngoi nei)
20. Jimmy Lam Chee-wing    Give my dearest (Cup ngor yat gor tsun ngoi dick)
24. Hacken Lee Hark-kun    Red sun (Hung yat)
25. Veronica Yip Yuk-hing  White Rose (Bark mui guai)
27. Derick Wan Siu-lun     Come and hold me (Yung po ba)
30. Sandy Lam Yick-lin     Beloved (Tsung ngoi)
=============================================================================

As usual, we have the albulmn chart too.... Here you go!

Commercial Radio 2 pop albulmn chart
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1. Alan Tam               Love Story (Ngoi tsing gu si)
 2. Aaron Kwok Fu-sing     Neverending singing, dancing and loving Aaron
                           (Tsoeng bud yuen, tiu bud yuen, ngoi bud yuen dick
                           Kwok Fu-sing)
 3. Dicky Cheung Wai-kin   True and False (Dzun dzun ga ga)
 4. Grasshoppers           La La means I love you (NCN)
 5. Shirley Wong Dzing-man Coming home Faye (NCN)
 6. Lau Man-kuen (Paradox) Blue (NCN)
 7. Cally Kwong Mei-wan    Love makes all people drunk (Ngoi ling mui gor yan
                                                        dou sum dzoey)
 8. Jackey Cheung Hok-yau  Real love is revealed (Dzun tsing lau lo)
 9. Beyond                 Continue Revolution (Gai dzuk gap ming)
10. Derick Wan Siu-lun     Wanna give out all my love (Yuen king tsoet sum lui
                                                       ngoi)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hope you'll enjoy it. See you next week, bye bye! Have a nice weekend too!

BTW, forget to tell you that NCN means no chinese name and all the things not
english here is in cantonese pinyin.

Aulina from Hong Kong
91066702@cphkvx.bitnet
1992.9.6
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: glo@dvlseq.us.oracle.com (George Lo)
Subject: Re: Old Boys of Wah Yan College Hong Kong
Organization: Oracle World HQ, Redwood Shores, California
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:27:01 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

In article <1992Sep9.221855.5583@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> felixcat@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Wong Hung Lurk Felix) writes:
>
>		Anyone in the internet is the old boy of Wah Yan College
>Hong Kong ? If so, why not we establish a UNIX communication network !
>Mail, or even chat with each other, sharing about their good memories in
>Wah Yan. It sounds a good idea, doesn't it ? 
>
>		If you are interested in, reply this onto the news group
>or mail me at "felixcat@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au" ! 
>
>Felix the cat ..:)

There is a WYCHK news network. Probably someone will send you an
application later.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: william@natimuk.acci.com.au (William Lo)
Subject: Re: Priscilla Chan
Organization: IBM Australia/ACCI 
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 01:08:04 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.214033.5316@dsg.tandem.com> leung@DSG.Tandem.COM (Steven Leung) writes:
>leoso@cs.arizona.edu (Leo WaiChung So) writes:
>
>>  Chan Wai Han, ...
>>  hits includes <Silly Girl "Saw Lui">, <Please Leave "Hui Bar">,
>>  <Dancing Street "Tiu Mo Kai">, <Love Me Once Again> ...
>>  Latest album <Please come back "Gwei Loi Bar"> released in 1992.
>
>The two I like most (I can't decide which one I like more) so far are
><Thousand Pieces of Songs> and <Promise that passes away>. Let's sing
>it over the net:
>
>(Slowly, sadly, but not with the feeling of getting hurt,)
		     ^^^
	** Definitely!  
>1=D
>        .     .
> 5 6 |  1   . 1    6   5    1 2  | 3  -  -  2 3 | 5   . 6    3    2 | 1  -  -
> ---          -    -----    ---             ---         -
> shui  shuet yau  but shan  yin   chik,     shui shuet sang shei but bin,
>
	** Yeah! Great! That's my favourite(although I'm not a fan of hers), too!
	

---Cheers,
	Bill
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From: rkwst+@pitt.edu (Raymond K Wong)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: How to tell if he/she is from HK?
Date: 10 Sep 92 03:15:51 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pittsburgh


There's nothing wrong with a pony tail.  There's nothing wrong with wearing
ear-rings (guys).  There's nothing wrong shaving your head.  There's nothing
wrong with whatever appearance and attire you choose....people are usually
surprised or intolerant of differences.  It's just ignorance.  They expect
everyone to look the same.  I personally think Hong Kong people are generally
so used to the "normal" middle ground or so busy following the "trend" that
they forget not all people wear the current hairstyles, the brand names, the
accessaries, the fashion....I expect to go home this winter and be critized
as been "toe" (plain) with my style of clothing.

Ray
-- 
Raymond K. Wong                                 
E-mail: rkwst@unix.cis.pitt.edu, rkwst+@pitt.edu, rkw@icarus.lis.pitt.edu
E-mail: sm/pgh/ray%sm@mcimail.com                                       
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Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.
Date: Thursday, 10 Sep 1992 20:16:19 EST
From: Tao Yao <TAYAO@MTUS5.BITNET>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: help

Is there anyone know Andrew Lam's E mail address? He is from Hongkong,
transfer from Michgan Technological University to Purdue University
this summer. If anyone knows his address, please email me.

Thanx a  lot!!  :)
Tayao@mtus5.cts.mtu.edu