Article: Bad news from Hong Kong.

Article from:
The Boston Herald
Article date:
April 1, 1998
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Two recent legal cases and a forthcoming change in Hong Kong's constitution raise troubling questions about the future of the Chinese city.

The city's secretary for justice has decided not to prosecute a powerful publisher with connections to the communist government.

Sally Aw, owner of the English-language Hong Kong Standard, will not be prosecuted even though the city's anti-corruption commission has accused her of attempting to defraud advertisers by inflating circulation figures. Several of her deputies will be tried, but not Aw, who is a delegate to China's parliament and friend of Hong Kong's chief executive, Tung Che-hwa.

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