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Travellers from Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport to China find it extremely difficult to obtain reservations on flights into the Chinese mainland. Passenger volume to China has risen at the rate of 50% per annum since 1990, while increase in fleet strength has remained limited to 15%. Despite the inability to cope with heavy passenger traffic, China has discouraged foreign companies from operating flights to China. Consequently, passengers have to spend several hours in queues to obtain seat reservations.
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Cultural reforms in China have affected all social sectors including former political prisoners, the aged, the youth and even the foreign population. The reform and more open policies which characterize Chinese society are perhaps distinctly manifest in the open or public sessions of charismatic cults. These sessions are sometimes viewed as a chance to freely manifest emotions without fear of recriminations.
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Experiences on a trip from Ulan Bator to Karakorum in post-Soviet Mongolia are presented. The week-long trek is made memorable by Baboorshkin, the taxi driver, who overcomes the frequent breakdowns of his Volga-mobile through ingenious means and who uses these breaks to talk about the landscape.
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