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From: shiu@globey.cs.wisc.edu (Shiu Wong)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Movie news...
Date: 13 Sep 92 20:13:56 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.

Hi there,

Someone has asked about the American version of 'The Killer' (original
version is 'Tip Hui Shen Hung', starring Chow Yun Fat, Lee Sau Yin and
Yip Sin Man) several months ago.  Here's what I found out: 

Director : Walter Hill
Actors   : Richard Gere (as the 'Killer')
	   Denzel Washington (as the cop)
Actress  : < still looking for a Chinese girl in Hong Kong >

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Other news:

1. Chow Sing Chiu's fan club was established in Japan.  His current pay
   for each movie is ~ HK $ 10,000,000. 

2. Jackie Chan broke his ankle while going down a slope with a skate
   board in Hong Kong Garden.  He is starring in 'City Hunter'. 
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for reading.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: echiu@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Eddie Chiu)
Subject: Re: Sam Hui in East Coast?
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 19:56:54 GMT

In article <1992Sep15.141513.4585@walter.bellcore.com> danwong@nyquist.bellcore.com (Daniel Wong 21374) writes:
>Yes, and it should be around end of Sept, around 27th?  I saw the ad.
>two months ago on a Chinese newspaper.  But I started to have a little
>doubt about my memory since someone mentioned that Sam is going to have
>another farewell concert in S.F. at the end of Sept also!
>As I remember, there will be more than one concert in a day,probably
>THREE!
>
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>No one tells me what to do except YOU!     	|
>						|
>Daniel Wong  					| -------
>danwong@nyquist.bellcore.com			|    H
>danwong@ocf.berkeley.edu			| =======    
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
The Sam Hui farewell concert will be held on September 22, Tuesday,
at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium at 7pm (?).  All the high priced
tickets are sold out already; only some "not so good" seats are still
available.


Eddie Chiu

Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: x0y3510@tamuts.tamu.edu (Xuejun Yang)
Subject: Re: World Banks Report on China Environment
Organization: ~/lib/organization
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 23:41:47 GMT

In article <10265@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> anthony@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
>In <1992Sep10.200955.9493@oracle.us.oracle.com> glo@dvlseq.us.oracle.com (George Lo) writes:
>>Come on, 1988 was ages ago.  I was in ShenZhen last Christmas and
>
>That's ShenZhen.   What about other cities ?
>
>>found the places extremely clean.  The bathroom is so clean and
>>they have people in every public bathroom in the tourist area to
>>serve tourists.  I haven't found cleaner bathrooms in anywhere else.
>
>Yes the bathrooms might be clean but what about how they treated the
>sewerage ?  Do they just let in run into the sea untreated ?
>Do they recycle ?
China still has big problems on environment but has made considerable
progress recently which is recognized by the UN in the recently-held
earth conference in Rio(The environmental minister got an award which
the US media failed to mention). The thing is you have to be realistic
and take cost into consideration. Of course, China can not afford to
keep the same standard as the developed countries which had polluted
their's AND other peoples, then cleaned their own but have done little
to help poor countries from which they get raw materials and polluted
their environment. The developed countries better help poor ones more
before they critisize poor countries for bad environmental policies
according to the developed countries today's standard. Otherwise how
can the poor country get developed? Remain poor forever? It's a sad
reality like it or not. Food is more important than clean environment
to the poor. I am always amazed at people judging things without
looking at both sides of the stories. You know, in the 50's, the
street lights were always on during daytime because you could not
see anything. The Great Plain in the US was almost converted into
a desert before the 60's. And the US living standards was higher
than today's China. Think about it. Everyone likes clean environment
but striking a balance between it and economic welfare is in my
opinion more practical than either extreme. 
>--
>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
From: kkchan@acs.bu.edu (ka kit)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Boston University Hong Kong Student meeting
Date: 14 Sep 92 17:50:23 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: kkchan@acs.bu.edu


  I am a new student in BU, and I would like to contact or get to know
some Hong Kong Student in BU...
  if u are one of the Hong Kong student in BU, please let me know how
to get in touch with all of u and when the HK student meeting will be 
hold in BU... thank you.

   my email address is : kkchan@acs.bu.edu
   
   I am looking forward to hear from all of u!!

9/14/92
From: leekc@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Kwok-choi Lee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Missing Person
Keywords: Help Looking for Missing Person
Date: 11 Sep 92 19:01:36 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network


                *******************************
                ******* MISSING PERSON ********
                *******************************

Dear HK netters,
I am helping a friend of mine looking for a very close
relative of his. This person was born in China in the 20's
and he is probably around 78 years of age right now. My 
friend told me that his relatives told him this person
was living in Hong Kong and possibly held a teaching position
in the Hong Kong Chinese University in the Chinese Department.
If that's true, I guess it shouldn't be too difficult to locate
him even if he has retired. 
I am posting this so that some of the HK netters can do us a big 
favor. If we are lucky enough to find him,
it should be a great use of this modern telecommunication 
technology and be able to unite someone that have not seen
each other for over some 40 years. 
I hope especially those HK netters resided in Hong Kong to help. 
It would be advantageous if you are teaching or studying 
in the Hong Kong Chinese University.
Hence, you can easily go to the library to search some faulty 
directories in the past years, or to the administration office
and see what they can do about it.
Even though he might be teaching in the HK Chinese U, there might
be possibility that he might be in the University or higher 
educational institutions in Hong Kong. He might well be in the 
Philosophy Department since those two are closely related.
Please pass this along and keep an eye for it. I hope there is
someone somewhere in HK has known this person.
We are greatly appreciate any information concerning this missing
person. 
___________________________________________________________________
If there is any information, please direct it to 
            leekc@stable.ecn.purdue.edu
          or call 1-317-494-8288 (Patrick Lee)
  
___________________________________________________________________

Chinese name:
------------
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    #####           #     #         #                   #   
    #   #                 #     #########         ############
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                          #       #   #
Age today:
---------
          around 78

Possible Employer:
-----------------
          HK Chinese University in the Chinese Department
          or any Higher Education Institutions
From: u9259236@cc.uow.edu.au (Leslie Shing Chi Tong)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: John Woo Films!
Date: 14 Sep 92 13:59:12 GMT
Organization: University Of Wollongong

uril@yang.earlham.edu (Uri J. Lessing) writes:

>Hello,
>I am a big fan of Hong Kong action film director John Woo.  I find his 
>films incredibly interesting.  However, my experience is limited because I 
>have only seen two of his fims "Rules of the Game" and "The Killer."  Does 
>anyone know where I could aquire video tapes of his other films?  I would 
>prefer them with English subtitles, but I would love to hear any 
>information about anything involving Woo.

>Thanks in advance.
>-- 

>Uri J. Lessing |  Earlham College |  Richmond, Indiana

I'm sure of your of the situation in your country,but in here(Australia) you 
can get John Woo's movies from chinese video rental stores(in chinatown),
they should be avilable in both VHS and LD.
The best one(IMO):A Better Tommorow PartI

For one of my friend,he thinks "The Killer" is the best because Chow(the 
killer)was somking the same brend of cigarates as him(and me).

L Tong
University of Wollongong
Australia
u9259236@wampyr.cc.uow.edu.au
From: leoso@cs.arizona.edu (Leo WaiChung So)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: Where to buy US textbooks in Hong Kong
Date: 13 Sep 92 17:45:35 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson

cyli@cucs11.cs.cuhk.hk (Li Chung Yuen) writes:

[bookstore list and other notes deleted]

>
>2.   As a CU student, I personally suggest you not to consider SWINDON
>     of CU, unless you are looking for manuals for commercial softwares.
>

As an ex-CU student, me too. CU Swindon should be a last resort. :)
Cheers,
       _
      //	   
     //       	  
  /\//  EO  So 	 		"Look ahead, plan ahead, go ahead."
  \//\====
From: onlit@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Drew)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: Weighing units (pounds, kilogram, etc... )
Date: 9 Sep 92 22:14:25 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <eln235s.715946607@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au> eln235s@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr H Hui) writes:
>Could anyone verify the following facts about the weighing units we use
>in the markets in HK ?
>1. 1 Kilogram = 2.2 pounds
>2. 4 pounds   = 3 catties (spelling?) (pron.: gun)
>3. 1 catty    = 16 "nurn"-s (can someone supply translation?)
>
>The funny thing was that a guy from PRC holds it very strong that 
>there are only 10 "nurn"s for 1 catty in PRC. And 1 catty is 
>exactly 0.5 kilo-gram. 

I have heard about that too.  I was told that they called it "Si(city) Gun."
It is 0.5kg and is equal to 10 "liang"(or "nurn").  

The yardstick and conversion that you have stated are definitely correctly
if you are talking about HK.  I believe, it is the same in Taiwan too.  I
tend to think that PRC like to create "revolutionary stuff."  The new "Gun"
and "Liang" will be one of them.  

Andrew 
-- 
+-----------   @}-'--   -----------+  "To Serve, To Strive and Not to Yield"
|      Lee, On-Lit Andrew          |               - Motto of Outward Bound 
|                                  | 
|  email: onlit@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu |  "Your disability is your opportunity"
|  University of Texas at Austin   |               - Kurt Hahn,  
+----------------------------------+                 Founder of Outward Bound 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: henryc@panix.com (Henry Chan)
Subject: Re: How to tell if he/she is from HK?
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 04:06:32 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC

>	There has been a few articles talking about by looking at
>outlooks, one could tell whether a person is from HK or not. 

true

>Also with my N. American casual look, a friends sisters said that I
>looked like a gangster/Big Brother! :)  
>
Wearing 14K tattoos and carrying a Dai Go Dai would be a good indication
that you're not from Iowa.  (^-^)  
Also you can tell by what they drink.  Not many Americans drink San Miguel
or water from Watsons.
-- 
" I am from the planet Larson on the far side of the Galaxy" said the
space cow invading St. Canard -Dark Wing Duck

HenryC@Panix.Com
From: rkwst+@pitt.edu (Raymond K Wong)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: How to tell if he/she is from HK?
Date: 12 Sep 92 00:22:55 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Sep11.034737.25971@funlwb.enet.dec.com> tong@aussie.enet.dec.com (Benny Tong) writes:
>
>There is nothing wrong with all of that of course. But what does the guy 
>with a pony tail and an ear ring really want to tell others with his
>appearance? Is he making himself a easy target for other interested gay men? A
>guy can be very different in a million ways, why chooses to appear like a
>woman? If he goes to a party with a lot of people with pony tails and ear
>rings, is he going to try to be more different by wearing a skirt and some make
>up? How far do you need to go to be different? 

Why would a guy with an ear ring and a pony tail easy target for some gay men?
Why would a guy with an ear ring and a pony tail appear like a woman?
Why IS he TELLING people anything by dressing the way he does?
Many American men has ear rings.  Do you think they look like women?

Ignorance has no limits.....

>And why do you need to be different? Aren't we different already? We all have
>different faces, eyes, hair color already, do we need one more difference :)

Why don't you start wearing the Mao's uniform?  Maybe we should all wear
some kind of a uniform (and don't bother altering the style a bit).

Ray
>
-- 
Raymond K. Wong                                 
E-mail: rkwst@unix.cis.pitt.edu, rkwst+@pitt.edu, rkw@icarus.lis.pitt.edu
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From: yuk@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Yuk Lun Chan)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 08:37:32 GMT
Subject: Re: Type Casting of different people
Organization: Hewlett-Packard ISG-SBU-PWD, UK.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong

>soc.culture.hongkong / wan@elec.uq.oz.au (Alfred WAN) /  2:46 pm  Sep 10, 1992 /

>One way of telling who is coming from Hong Kong is by the school bags they carry.
Do you really need to carry school bag? in University? Most of us just carry
a file folder. (some years ago, but when I visit my friend who teaching in 
University, I saw most of the student carry file folder also, some with
shopping bags too).

>I think they are the trend leaders in that respect.

>Saw the posting about how you can tell which people come which part of Asia, I am sure you guys can tell a chinese
>is a PR or from oversea quite easily too.  They tend not to mix with the oversea bunch, specially if they don't speak any Chinese at all.

Do you mean a local grow Chinese? It depends, if you works part time in 
Chinese resturant, you will find no difficulty mixing with them. Well, 
I can mix up with some local Chinese everywhere I go. Just drop in a local
take away, talk to them (in Cantonese). If you just treat them as shop keeper,
you are just one of their customers.

>Also Oversea students tend to form their own circle of friends (real friends), rarely do they socialize outside that circle.
>The friends they have during their stay, are the one they make during their first year at university.

>Does anyone notice that Australian flies got slower reflects that the Hong Kong's on , why?

I though only the British flies flies slowly, so as Asse. We always joke that
the flies in Hong Kong are flighter (small and fast) while the British are
bomber (big and slow).




>Alfred
>:)
>----------

BTW, please hit <return> when you reach the end of line. Not all news reader
adjusts.

Yuk
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: Boniface Lee--IO <bonl2@cfsmo.honeywell.com>
Subject: San Francisco
To: soc.culture.hongkong
Posted-Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 12: 43:00 CDT
Mailer: Elm [revision: 66.25]
Organization:  Honeywell Inc.
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 17:43:00 GMT
Received-Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 12: 42:29 CDT
Division:      Commercial Flight Systems - Minneapolis Operation
Internet:      bonl2@cfsmo.honeywell.com


I might be going to San Francisco this coming Christmas.  Any recommandations
of what's out there?  Where to go?  Do they have any Hong Kong style massage
out there?  Appreciate any suggestions!

P.S.  How long is the drive from SF to Reno or Lake Tahoe?

--
Boniface K. Lee (bonl2@cfsmo.honeywell.com)
Honeywell Commercial Flight Systems - Minneapolis Operations
(612) 785-4629
From: funnyfin@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Mid-Autumn Festival
Date: 7 Sep 92 03:06:02 GMT
Reply-To: funnyfin@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu ()
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: funnyfin@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu

For all those who are in North America, the moon will be full ( I mean real 
full, ie 100% illuminated) at 21:18 CDT on the 9th of September. So don't
forget to "raise your head to look at the clear moon" , then "lower your head
to think about home" (pardon for my terrible translation) by then.


-- 
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: wan@elec.uq.oz.au (Alfred WAN)
Subject: Type Casting of different people
Summary: Type Casting of different people
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 13:46:37 GMT


One way of telling who is coming from Hong Kong is by the school bags they carry.

I think they are the trend leaders in that respect.


Saw the posting about how you can tell which people come which part of Asia, I am sure you guys can tell a chinese
is a PR or from oversea quite easily too.  They tend not to mix with the oversea bunch, specially if they don't speak any Chinese at all.

Also Oversea students tend to form their own circle of friends (real friends), rarely do they socialize outside that circle.
The friends they have during their stay, are the one they make during their first year at university.

Does anyone notice that Australian flies got slower reflects that the Hong Kong's on , why?




Regards

Alfred
:)
From: leoso@cs.arizona.edu (Leo WaiChung So)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Re: Where to buy US textbooks in Hong Kong
Date: 10 Sep 92 04:27:49 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson


Here is my favorite bookstore list for CS books.

*   Hon Wing Book Co., Ltd.
    63A, Tung Choi Street, Kowloon
    391-0585

    World Book Co., Ltd.
    Argyle Street (Near Sincere), Mongkok
    394-1025

    USTHK University Bookstore
    Level 123, Entrance Piazza, Hong Kong University of Science & Tech.

    HKU Swindon Book Co., Ltd.
    University of Hong Kong
    546-8412

    CUHK Swindon Book Co., Ltd.
    Fulton Building, Chinese University of Hong Kong

*!  Swindon Book Co., Ltd.
    Locke Road, Tsimsatsui, Kowloon

*!  Caves Books Co,. Ltd.
    4B Ferry Street, G/F., Yaumati, Kowloon
    780-0987, 771-2298
    Shop M124, Jackson Rd,. MTR Central Station, HK
    524-8857

*$  Academic & Professional (A&P) Book Center
    1H Cheung Ming Building, 80-86 Argyle Street, Mongkok
    398-2191

*$  Man Yuen Books Co., Ltd.
    Parkers Street, Jordon, Kowloon



    (*) means rich in CS books.
    (!) means rather expansive.
    ($) means cheap.


    -- leo. <leoso@cs.arizona.edu>
From: chiaki10@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Kwan Y Mok)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
Subject: Sam Hui in East Coast?
Date: 15 Sep 92 13:38:51 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

Does anyone know if Sam Hui will perform in Atlantic City for his farewell
concert? If yes, when? Thanks.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.hongkong
From: s6883289@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Absolutely Chinese)
Subject: Re: If you run ETen (chinese environment) under os/2 2.0..
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 22:22:02 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.215452.15910@news.cs.brandeis.edu> lau@hydra.rose.brandeis.edu (Frankie LAU) writes:
>HI Fellows,
>	I've been trying to run ETen, the Taiwan made
>ETen chinese operating environment.  Recently, with
>the help of ibm's tech support, I made it to work.
>
>The key is, using os/2's DOS emulation, it is NOT
>good enough for ETen.  So create a DOS program object,
>in DOS setting, set your DOS_STARTUP_DRIVE to A: (for example).
>With vanila config.sys and autoexec.bat; and of course,
>the system files (Oops I also transferred the FSFILTER.SYS there,
>as directed), now reading/inputing chinese using ETen environment
>under OS/2's DOS FULL screen fully worked.  However, printing
>still not working yet. I'll try to find out if it will work or not.
>
>	I found that DOS_startup from A: is painfully slow, is
>it possible to start from an image file??
>
>Now Mathematica is the only reason for me to boot DOS.
>
>-Frankie
>lau@hydra.rose.brandeis.edu

i haven't tried printing since i don't have a printer.. :)
but ETen 3.0 works without problem under os2 2.0 so far.

anyone tried using Gwok Kieu (nation-bridge?) under os2? i am going to try 
that in the coming days, if you have experince installing this, please let me 
know. thanks

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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: 8 Sep 92 02:30:51 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <79249@ut-emx.uucp> onlit@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Drew) writes:
>In article <1992Sep4.205542.12878@csus.edu> jchow@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Johnny Chow) writes:
>No doubt about it; also the brand names too.  E.g., Giordano, Polo, Le Sport
>Sac, Orange Gal, Nikko....  Frankly, everyone I have met here in Austin TX who 
>carries a Le Sport Sac is from HK.  

Do they usually bring their clothes and accessaries from Hong Kong?   I have 
never heard of some of these brand names and I definitely have not worn 
any of these brand names.   The brand names  I have include Bugle Boys, 
Califonia, and K-Mart.  :-)

I think I am really out of touch.  Hopefully I will catch up a bit this 
Winter.

Ray

>


-- 
Raymond K. Wong                                 
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