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The Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court in China sentenced Australian businessman James D. Peng to 16 years imprisonment and deportation after finding him guilty of embezzling 800,000 Hong Kong dollars from Shenzhen Champaign Industrial Co., a small textile-manufacturing firm. The case began in 1992 when Chinese officials interrogated Peng about his small fortune, but only attracted international attention when Peng's citizenship became an issue after his wife accused the Australian government of refusing to provide her husband the support it would have readily given to any Australian citizen.
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The Hong Kong government has intensified its efforts to recruit new police officers to revitalize its depleting ranks. New recruits are offered salaries as high as $1,550 a month as well as incentives such as housing, medical and pension benefits. The drive to recruit new police offers came with the realization that Hong Kong's 27,000-strong police force is losing experienced and talented personnel to retirement. Moreover, concerns about Hong Kong's ability to maintain law and order after its reunification with China also helped motivate the government to launch the recruitment campaign.
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Lo Tak-shing is busy soliciting China's support for his aspiration to become the chief executive of Hong Kong after its annexation to the mainland in 1998. The astute bureaucrat and lawyer has been espousing social and political views that are in line with Chinese policies such as the promulgation of a new Bill of Rights for the island. Lo is in favor of a limited freedom of speech to prevent seditious talk.
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