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ÀUGUST 1988

THE

VOLUME1 NUMBERTO

CORNDSPOilIIEIUT

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CONTENTS Fax fever strikes Hong

COVER STORY

'Gunboat' Jenkins and the heydays ofThe Star After he read 'Jenkins, the grand-daddy

Couriers adopt strategies for the information age

7

of photojournalism' (C. June'88), Peter Finn, FCC member and a former managing editor of The Star (now with TV Channel 10 in Perth), quickly bashed out an article about some of the unforgettable events in the heydays of that now defunct daily. Finn says: "I don't think any newspaperman really lived until he worked on The Star under Jenkins".

Red Cross and

Letters

communications equipment.

Technology writer Claudia Nalvin looks at this development and the information technology's increasing influence on our daily lives.

TheZoo

13

Untangling the data lines A marathon task for the Big Blue

t4

The first step towards the paperless office

14

James

Fonester

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In this new column, Tad Stoner reviews the book Basic Law, Basic Questions: the Debate Continues and John Gardner reviews The Great Money lllusion.22

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golden era. Information transfer between locations far apart can now be carried out within minutes, thanks to

Viswa Nathan

EastAsia

Peter Küng, who heads the Hong Kongbased regional delegation ofthe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), spoke at the Club lasr month outlining the activites of the ICRC and the task it faces in East Asia.

The information industry is now in its

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SPECIAL REPORT

a variety

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Opirions expressed by writers ae not næessrily those of the Foreign Corespondents' Club

4 THE CORRESPONDENTAUGUST

Advertising Manager: JohannaPeat, Printed by KadeIIPrinling Co..

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1988

Hong Kong.

Ping, famous for the biggest uprising in Chinese history, against the Manchu dynasty, and which now houses the intriguingly named Anti-British Museum, was the initial travel destination for a group of Club members recently. From Tai Kok Tsui in Kowloon they tooka5O-milejoumeyupthe Pearl Riverestuary. The reason for the moming voyage wasn't, of course, the

T'ai

museum or history but a new monument - Shiajiao B Power Station which the Hong Kong entrepreneur Gordon Wu built and brought into service, in record time, to ease Guangdong province's electricity shofage and prevent black-outs in his new hotel in the provincial capital. Tony Baynes was on the tour and he describes the experience. (P age 2O -21)

AUGUST 1988 THE CORRESPONDENT 5

LETTERS

THE 7OO

ÞY ARTHUR HACKER

Arthur or Martha or both?

IT wAS with interest I reviewed the Readership Survey in the May 1988 issue of The Corre-

r1's É.VEeY Y-l>'ÞLooÞEÞ Jov R¡o's 5¿cgÉ-[ AAø'f oN

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REMEMBERED YESTERDAYS PETER FINN

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there any informalion

ship belong?

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Edward L McGrath

Mexico

t PÎctule-hoin 50fi, aP

Of 'Gunboat' Jenkins and the heydays of The Star

available on what genders the other I I per cent of the reader-

The Correspondent hus tto inlot mqtitut on this The I I pet cenrmq,,perhaps, careto sqlisf! lhe cnios¡ry of ourfellow ntember in Mexico - Editor

page

FAST ÞRINK OUTLET

spondent. I note that 89 per cent of the readels participate in the more popular genders (76 per cent male, l3 per cent female).

ls

Íhot

4( ut

ù

Errors corrected

I

I was to note my anival in Hong Kong had been duly recorded in your excellent PLEASED as

organ (C. June '88), may I conect an error in your repoft?

I spent a total ofjust overtwo years in Vietnam, Cambodia and

Laos. and not lwo years in Vietnam lollowed by two years in

Cambodia and Laos as your reporI states.

On a small point, Reuters, which like everybody else likes to get it right, does not style itself Reuter's.

Chris Peterson

have a collar, was unacceptable in the FCC.

At the next tablesatagroup consisting of ladies whose attire left little to the imagination and would probably not have passed the Hong Kong censor, and gentlemen wearing shirts that looked like they had slept in them for the past five nights. Their saving grace was that they did have collars (albeit a little grimy) on them. Nevertheless, my guest was asked to leave and I had no altemative but to sign my chits for the drinks that we had partly consumed and abandon the

Collar-conscious

dinner.

My initial reaction to this

AS a membe¡ of the FCC for almost 20 years, I am surprised that our present Board feels that

should impose dress

it

codes

with club members and without even without consultation

bothering to inform them of its decision.

On July 15, I booked a table for eight in the main dining room to enteftain agroup ofoverseas

visitors and local friends. After being seated and ordering predinnerdrinks I was informed that one ofmy overseas visitors could not be served as he was weari ng a

T-shirt. He was, in fact, quite decently dressed in a smart pair of slacks, leather shoes and a freshly

laundered white short-sleeved

shirt which, because

it did not

insult and embarrassment

was

that I should resign my membership the nextmoming. However,

having slept on it ovemight I realised that the only loser by such anaction would bemyself.

The Funny Chaps was still one of the best clubs in town and, after all, I had paid no small sum to the relocation fund in the days when it looked as if we would not have a home.

next step going to be jacket and tie in the dining room and collar and tie in the bar? Are we running a club for correspondents and their associates or a firstclass hotel? Are we living in the 20th century or trying to maintain Victoriana? Oh that we could get back to the good old days when the club was run by a group of scruffy old-fashioned foreign correspondents assisted by a very efficient catering contractor!

I must give praise, howeve¡ to our staff who were extremely diplomatic and apologetic about the incident and mentioned that the new rule was alsoprovingto be very embarrassing and difficult for them, having to tum people away who did not leave as willingly as L If the Board leels a necessity to impose dress codes in the dining room that's fine with me; I'll just ignore the dining room and confine myself to the bar and pool room or even sit and drink my beer in the toilet. All I'm asking is that il the Board is going

The FCC has always had a reputation for being one of the most friendly, relaxed and rea-

to make stupid rules would it

sonably priced clubs in town and it is this which has made it so popular'. Are we about to throw it all out of the window and start trying to compete with the Mandarin and the Peninsula? Is the

embarrassment.

6 THE CORRESPONDENTAUGUST

telling someone and save members and staff a lot of

please mind

J.G.

Bull

The FCC's poli<'y is oue of common settse Menthet s shqll be t easonqblt,dressecl For the dining roont, lhis has olu,a;'s nteanl no shot ts or collor-less shit ls

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EMORIES of Graham "Gunboat" Jenkins came rushing back after

reading the special report

on

photojoumalism (C, June 1988) - not with a whimper but a bang.

Sure, "Gunboat" (so named because he gave everyone a broadside) had a quick eye for photographs. In his view, a picture was not good unless it was big and, believe me, in the early days of Ifte SÍar we needed big pictures.

A few examples:

-

A PLANECRASH: Oneclassic casewas the crash of

a US

Hercules from Hong

Kong's Kai Tak airport on August

24,

1965. Somehow or other, and I never got the full story, Steve Dunleavy managed to get to Kai Tak within 30 minutes from our then office in Luk Hoi Tung Building in Central, find a light aircraft and take photographs over the crash scene. (Steve's father was a famous Sydney newspaper photographer, but Steve rarely held a camera.)

Back came the photographs after Steve's altercation with the charter pilot who demanded cash on landing. A certain amount of biffing ended that argument.

On the ground we just,happened to have a Vietnam photographer on R & R who covered for w (The Star, Pages 8-9, Aug 24, 1965). The best picture, chosen forthe front

AUGUST 1988 THE CORRESPONDENT 7

1988

Nf

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REMEMBERED YESTERDAYS

Gunboat Jenkins continuect page, showed the C-130 Hercules in the water. But the tail section was out of

churm-out old

the

we

enlarged. "Gunboat" looked at it and said we had to show the tail. I said we couldn't. He settled that argument by cur section from another print tlng out and sticking it on the front page picture about where he thought the tail should go.

shot

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NO PLACE FOR THE UNIMAGINATIVE: Then there was the Ming Yuen Street car pile-up caused by the torrential rains of

t{lii i{i

June 13, 1966 (The Star, Page 6). The Star always had plenty ofphotographers. They

would simply walk in off

the street

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srÁrus ryiiïT:

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UG b ù¡r obr.ct¡Ë,

b.qq i l-l lr¡¡¡ lt tr fDr¡¡t ul¡l¡ b arul!. lb Ðoõir ol u¡lðr þct t¡ rù. h¡n ælòba ¡o 3r¡¡ ÈoE tblr ¡llad! eñ¡dd rldD3.¡o9a ab .¡c¡t t.t C Dan¡. cÞrtla3 h ¡ cl.u ¡r.rL',

com¡ng Fott hl

to<

H0ÍUllG HAllN0N t0lt

SMIIH DEIIIANDS H|/GHER Hn A.À

and he said he had found the missing boy. '^_^'"^"Þ ""J'

He certainly

@. th.

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n ililiÍtollll' " ;iåi:ïffi", days. EventEvent-

censorcd

BOOK REYIEWS

Kong English-lang-

BOy: A BOY:

!l t t') lí'

ôrt'lblt.a ô. tot to lh.lr làlr.tt Vlc{rú lil.Ddt rlþ rrd to btt¡. t¡ !¡ t nf. ¡rú (blt!t.d ¡ Vl.trq bu¡le

with

cameras around their necks and ask for a job.

Few stayed long. They leamt English very quickly though.

The car pile-up picture was taken at first from ground level which was ordinary.

"Gunboat" sacked that photographer on the spot and told another to climb to the top floor of a nearby building and take the photograph looking down.

The result was one of the most dramatic photographs I have ever seen. It was too big for page 1 so it went inside.

Jenkins sold it later to Life magazine. I don't expect the photographer got a dollar out of that.

The Star also ran the unthinkable photographs, unthinkable that is to Hong

A MISSING

mllltory lntelllgeæc

Seymour Topplng, New York Tlrne¡, lo3t month, lt wo¡ leorræd

tl¡¡ æ.

AUGUST IgsSTHECORRESPONDENT 9

REMEMBERED YESTERDAYS

Gunboat Jenkins

COMPLAINTS WON T HELP UNLESS...

.r¡,linuect

When he printed the shot, the very dead boy was floating in a dam and he was not a

pletty sight.

Jenkins insisted on bìowing up the print to the largest size possible and running it on the front page. Some of us, yes even Australians have sensibilities. said no. So Jenkins relented and we ran the picture on the back page, large enough to show the honor, and small enough to offend GIS. But I think what leally offended GIS was the heading Jenkins put over the picture: "Star finds missing boy".

Another time. we stole a march on the police on the suicide of a wealthy businessman who plunged to his death from a

a highly mobile community. Our workplace, home, telephone numbers, all keep changing.

We are

So, keeping the Club records up-to-date is not

- certainly not without the active cooperation of members. easy

Complaining to others - fellow members, bar staff - won't help. The only way to make sure that your address and telephone numbers in the Club records as well as the membership directory are up-to-date is by informing the Club -- lN WRITING, of course - of changes as soon as they occur.

high-rise block,

It just so happened that one of Ift¿ Star''s graphic artists lived in an apartment below in the same block. He heard a whistling sound and looked out of the window to see the businessman on the grass below. Again not a pretty sight. We had a photographer there within minutes and, from memory, we sat on the story almost until edjtion time when the police

the "know-it-all" c0mpact

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were called, Jenkins often used to ask why people thlew themselves off buildings in Hong Kong, or "swallow-dives" as we used to call them. He gave a Lucky Strike throaty chuckle when one subeditor said it was because they thought they could fly.

Of course, fairly soon after The Star stalted, we always looked for unusual overseas

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Jenkins loved it.

I don't think

any newspaperman really

lived until he worked on The Star under Jenkins, despite

utomatic.

Sonew' Canon presents a trio of mid-range cameras made

especially for people interested in taking great pictures without going to great pains. No matter how little you knovv about photography, these feature creatures do so much for you automatically, like film loading, winding, and rewinding.

The Prima Junior is an eye-catching, picture-grabbing compact that's so simple to use you'll want to take it with you everywhere. It has semi-automatic film loading and automatic film wind and rewind, even from the middle of a roll. Flash photography is easy because a low{ight warning tells you when the flash is needed.

The Prima Zoom sports a continuously variable 35mmT0mm zoom lens, and three exposure modes: auto,

low-light, and fill-in-flash. Focusing, film handling functions, and the built-in flash are all automatic.

The incredibly compact Prima Tele makes use of an exciting ner"' development-an auto retractable lens.

It appears only at the moment of shutter release, closes in an instant, and stays that way until the next shot, thereby protecting the lens. The Prima Tele also gives you the equivalent of six different views with the optional AF converter. Focus, exposure, flash, and film-handling functions are all fully automatic.

With so much done for you, each of these little marvels gives you more time to have fun.

some areas, prima Junior is alìed snappy EZ, prima z@m is câltcd Sure Shot Tele is called Strre Shot ñfulri Tele

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There are dozens of other stories about "Gunboat" - his care for little children. his swearing, his own work pattem, and his ceaseless demands on staff,

My only hope is that many of those original photographs have not been lost.

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WEALTHY, JET.SET DECISION MAKERS The findings of a recent survey among FCC members in Hong Kong said it all.

Consider these facts: Eaa* { .

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48/" of FCC members travel out of Hong Kong 6 - 20 times a year and 14/"more than20 times. Over 50% travel businessclass and 10% first class.

Cable & Wireless' earth station at Stanley for Hong Kong's satellite communication with the world.

Er;¡I O. 75]. wine and dine 5-20 nights a I AV.L 1. month in hotels and restaurãnts in Hong Kong.

Llntangling the data lines

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Once a tool for data and word processing, the computer, aided by high-speed communications links, isnowthe fastest mover of information.

7Tt HE compufer is more than a tool for telephone socket, a personal computer can manager of

52-64% make rental, purchase or

for a váriety of office automation equipmeñt -- electronic typeíwriters, telephones, PBX systems, telex, fax, photocopiers, usage decisions

computers, computer software, wordprocessors, etc.

t word processing or desktop dial up other users, as well as a number of .l. publishing. lt is a mover of infor- servrces. mation - a high-speed way to inform and be informed.

Sending messages or documents,

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'Source: SuMey conducfed by lhe advedis¡ng research depaññenl o¡ Asiaweek Lim¡ted and Chris M¡nle, managing direclor ol Execul¡ve Surueys Lld.

These men and women const¡tute the ideal target aud¡ence for suppliers of a var¡ety of products and serv¡ces.

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well as

retrieving information, via compuler involves one of the most complex sciences of information technology - data communications. For the end use¡ the process can be pretty straightforward though.

At its simplest, data communications requires a personal computer, communications software and a modem for translating digital computer signals into analog signals that run over telephone lines. Modems are

readily available in Hong Kong from CSL (which sells Hayes,NokiaandGoCmodems) and from many other computer vendors like Datacraft, Bondwell, Epson, etc.

Modems use various baud, or transmission, rates - 300, 1200, 2400, 4800,9600 or 19.2 kilobits per second. Of these, only the three slowest can be used over the public telephone network; the others require private data lines.

Where overseas calls are concemed, the faster the modem can move your data out over the telephone lines, the faster the telephone call and the smallerthe telephone bill. However, higher baud rates also mean greater susceptibility to noise on the telephone lines, which can foul up the data. Most modems now offer a baud selection.

Thus equipped and plugged into

a

DATABANKS: Local information services were scarce in the past. Now they are beginningto grow. Cable & Wireless'Dialcom, for instance, offers Hang Seng Indices, Sung Hung Kai Resources' database, ai¡lineticketing information, an online UPI newsfeed, Profile Information - a database offered by

'lheTimes of London-and economic information fromChinasupplied by Xinhua news agency.

An initial fee of $600 will get you onto Dialcom, though some of the databases come withindependentcharges. It also givesyou a password and a private mailbox on the Dialcom electronic mail system, through which you can send and receive messages to other subscribers.

Companies can subscribe to Dialcom to make the benefits of office automation available to employees, without investing in the software, hardware and maintenance of the in-house office system offered by major computer vendors. More confidential than fax, electronic mail allows employees to send messages locally or

intemationally within

sec-

onds. Other features on Dialcominclude an electronic calendar, through which users or their secretaries can eirter, check, change or cancel appointments, a fax service, forms

enhanced services, Richard

Doyle, points out however, that the bulletin board is not very active.

Some ove¡seas databases are also available locally. These include Citicorp's Global Report, which is marketed by Hutchison In-

formation Services. It offers real-time financial information, market commentary, profiles of local and overseas businesses, daily news and other information for corporate money-makers.

Services like Dialog, a US-based database, marketed by Information Services in Hong Kong, offer more general information through collections of hundreds of databases and thousands of publications from around the world, enabling users to conduct

fast, efficient

research into virtually any

toplc.

Time and cost, both for communications and network access, can add up quickly, but there are a number of ways to circumvent some of the costs. Dialog, for one, offers softwarethat lets you search for information offline, and then go online to retrieve it. And

most services offer extensive training courses to teach you to search faster, For accessing overseas networks and for local communications that require high reliability, users often tum to a packet-switched service, as opposed to dialling on the public telephone network. There are two packet-

processing, phone messaging, word-process-

switched networks in Hong Kong - the Hong Kong Telephone Company's Data-

ing and a bulletin board. Cable & Wireless'

pack and Cable & Wireless'IDAS.

AUGUST 1938 THE CORRESPONDENT 13

-t SPECIAL REPORT

A marathon task for the Big Blue JoURNALISTS covering the 1988 Olympics in Seoul (Sept.17 - Oct.2) will benefit from a sophisticated information technology installed by

smaller sub press centres located at various venues throughout rhe

Olympic complex. Other S/36s wlll be at each venue, feeding scores back to the mainframe for

IBM, The games information online network system, or cloNs as IBM has dubbed it, is part of a US$12.4 million installation that will handle everything

distribution throughout the network. The information will also

from Olympic village management to VII hosting, ticket

the games. Information

go out over the wire services and through television feeds.

The information gathering will begin as athletes register for on the

players, the event and its time and day will bekeyedintoworkstations and used later, for example, to create the start lists required for each contest.

After each game, the scores will be fed back into the computer

O

computers. At other events, they will be entered manually through a workstation. The system is online, which allows updates on unofficial scores, such as interim results for the marathon, to appear as soon as

network. In events such as they are entered into the system. races, where electronic timing devices determine scores, the results will be tran¡ferred directly from the de yices to the

wlll

Television stations, which have camera crews broad-

casting

the action live, will

benefit from television feeds while reporters will be able to enquire into scores at games they have not attended as well as check back with scores from

printing and supplying information to the media.

cIoNS' leading

worktwo IBM mainframe computers. They will store, horses are

a prevlous game.

The total packagecompris-

process and distribute all the information about players, events

ingtwo438l mainframes, 46 S/ 36s, more than 600 workstations, 20 gigabytes of memory,

and results to the media over both dedicated and public telephone lines. Receivingthe information from the mainframes will be System/36 minicomputers and terminals at the main press centres and the many

about

IBM 5550 system at the Olympics Stadium in Seoul.

120

printers (including

25 laser printers) as well as 80 different computer programs, installations, staff and training comes as part of IBM's sponsorship of the I 988 Olympics. n Cuslomen gel the beneîits

Untangling the data lines

c onti

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Subscribers to these networks do not need to use modems, as all the equipment for transmissions are located at the central office of the packet-switched service.

Users who send and receive a lot of spreadsheets or numerical data, or any information that must be absolutely accurate might want to look into packet switching as a means of communication.

Hong Kong Telephone also offers a nonswitched system called Digital Data Service.

Unlike Datapak, subscribers to DDS operate in

a

closed network. The people who can send

andreceive information to and from a comare determined beforehand, though they can be changed, added or removed from the system. This type of service is useful for organisations thatregularly send data to the same parties or who wish to set up intemal

pany

communications without investing in the equipment and maintenance of a proprietary network.

Similarly, Datacraft offers a private packet switching, X25, designed to help users communicate with otherwise incompatible computer systems, The marriage of computers and communications is possibly themost potentcombinationforobtaining, sending and circulating

info¡mation.

I4

THE CoRRI]SPONDENTAUGUST I988

The first step towards the paperless office

Hong Kong is one of a handful of world

Hong Kong's telecommunications

Hong Kong

reqson

paper files take. But optical storage could one day replace microfiche.

NE promise not kept by touters of the

microfilm takes time; archived

information age is that of the paperless office. More than ever, compa-

are not immediately available.

The compute¡ for many, has long held out the promise as an information storage device, but to retain the hundreds of thousands of documents most companies - law firms, hospitals and, of course, the media require would take a powerful mainframe computer, an expensive item to be used as a sophisticated filing cabinet.

information we receive is lost, forgotten or buried in rusty drawers. Optical storage may some day fulfil that promise.

Companies with massive storage requirements usually usemicrofilm. Captur-

ing images on film remains the most

pact, offering a 90 per cent space saving over paper.

However, microfilm falls short of the efficiency that users have come to expect from automation. Anyone who has called up a

document at the touch of abutton will not tolerate wading through a microfiche library and scrolling through

documents

cost-

efficient way to store information. It is also longlasting - documents stored on microfilm have a 1OO-year lifespan - and com-

films. Also, processing

is the

business and

linanciøl centre ol much of Asio. And Hong Kong Telecom is a big porl of the

Microfilm is said to take only one-tenth of the space the traditional

nies are producing, receiving, sending and filing away paper documents. And much of the

markets where local calls are still free, where

We're leading the way

DIGITISE AND STORE: Opticat storage may prove to be the answer to information over-

load. It allows users to store documents on optical disks in image form. A scanner digitthe documents, which are stored on optical disks in special optical-disk drives. Special software running on a computer allows users to index and retrieve documents from the file library. The computer need not be ises

dedicated to optical storage; image processing can bejust one ofmany tasks.

il

is.

Hong Kong's impresive growth has been

fuelled by many things. Its location al lhe crosroods of Southeast Asia. Ils deepwater harbour and sophislicated cargo-handling

-

facilities. Ils trønsporløtion infraslruclure sound roadways and un inlernøtional airport

-

and ucellent public senices. An enler-

prising and skilled workJorce.

net-

work is one of the world's most advanced, By 1993, it will be

to

10090

fæter and more efficient

in emergencies. Quick and responsive directory enquiry service. High-reliability lines

services. And already well ahead ofthe US and

for facsimile transmission. Mobile telephones.

the UK.

fibre optic cable, which vastly increases the capacity of its exi$ing local network and

Paging services. High-quality, high+peed local and international data transmission services. A wide array of bæic and sophisticated telecommunications hudware. Highcapacity satellite and cable links to the re$

improves on its already high reliability,

of the world.

tele-

Even now, Hong Kong Telecom ranks among the world's leaders in the urban use

of

also have access to a level and selection

ofhigh-

quality services few other cities or countries

Boasling lhe regionol headquorlerc oJ more multi-nationol companies thon probably

can match,

any other cily in Asiø, Hong Kong is indisput-

quently as enterprising entrepreneurs take

ably øt the cenlre of what's happening in the

advantage ofthe existing network. its low cost

rcgon,

and high technology stimulate development

And Hong Kong Telecom

is ot lhe centre

happening in lelecommunications.

the centre

And new competitive services emerge fre-

new and innovative products and

of

services

which make the network more valuable to all.

of what's happening

for

use

And a place where a phone line is connected, on average, in four days,

As for cost, telephone

service

in Hong

Kongis one ofthe best bargains in Asia andthe

Hongt(orlg¡elecorn At

There's more. Special "Helpline" services

communications, and an array of enhanced

way

slstem.

of what's

and get "yes" for an answer.

digital, opening the

Telecommunications users in Hong Kong

And its world-class telecommunicqtions

you can still æk to use someone's telephone

Ë ;Ë EÐ Ft

in Asia

world. For residential and business users alike.

There are a lot of good reæons to work

in Hong Kong.

We'd like to think and live

Hong Kong Telecom is one of them.

SPECIAL REPORT

SPECIAL REPORT

Paperless office

Fax fever

continued

Using this equipment, users could store entire documents - legal, financial,

rese arch,

catalogues and so on - and instantly view them

on a computer screen, calling them up the same way they call up a data file from their hard disk. As with microfiche, documents stored on optical disk cannot be changed; however, they can be viewed any number of

Fax fever strikes Hong Kong

many machines.

almost 20 fold in three years. And it continues to increase at the rate of 2,000 a month.

1

times and printed out.

¡

This quality, known as Worm, or "write

ways to make disks you can write to.

Today, the optical diskissold strictly as an archiving device, and for such apurpose, Worm is ideal. It guarantees, for example, that legal or high-security information has not been tampered with. In fact, says Michael Wong, manager of digital optical inforrnation systems for Philips Hong Kong, in the state of Texas in the US, documents stored on optical disks are legally admissible in a court of law.

COSTLY, BUT... The main problem right now is cost. The disk- drive subsystems alone start

around US$30,000. A complete system with all the hardware and software can be more. A standalone ODl000 systemfrom Kodak, for example, which includes a single personal computer with a hard disk and an optical disk, a scanner and a laser printer will run about

us$50,000.

Not that cost alone should determine whether or not to purchase such a system.

Gabriel Lau, a manager for Kodak Imaging Systems, says users can expect a pay-off within three years. As with any new technol-

tight deadlines right down to the last minute -glanting their editor doesn't mind receiving a ficsirnile. Last minute information can be

OT too long,ago, acolÌeague received 30 pages of a catalogue through the

limitation of optical storage. But manufacturers are searching for

office fax rnachine. Whether

the

sender valued his time and the cost ofpaper less than the caSh he would have paid a courier was uncertain. But it illustrated Hong Kong's feverish passion for fax.

In june 1985, Hong Kong Telephone published its first fax directory which contained 2,600 entries and claimed to represent more than 95 percent of the machines in Hong Kong. Today, there are more than 50,000.

And this mania shows no sign of waning; each month adds over2,000 more tothe total.

Next to Japan, Hong Kong has the most fax machines per capita in the world.

obtained in a hurry, removing one

I

of

the obstacles to the fast pace ofbusiness.

Fax offers several features. Even the most basic machines offer some extra features, such as the ability to store commonly used telephone numbers and dial them at the touch of a button. Others, such ps Ricoh Fax 30, just

chines, or even computers. Someone with a lot of memory could store adocuiryìent in his or her fax, and another machine, with a polling feature. could draw it off.

domestic fax, is

cheap. A basic no-frills machine for around HK$ 10,000.

dard cannot be answered.

However, manufacturers are committed tothis technologyandaretrying to encourage people to take the first steps toward widespread usage. "We guarantee a standard migration path," says Kodak's Gabriel Lau.

"When standards come, we

will help

users

migrate. Right now, it is a leaming process, and we are trying to help people understand the tenhnnlnorr t'

16

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U

AUGUST 1988

between

ffiï:Ïili

the stock exchange and a number of banks.

The price for accessing is $2 a minute during peak hoursand$1 aminute off-peak. Faxline 100 is a $11l/month fax-line rental, which includes a directory listing.

Those who do not have the room forafax,

.i $,-

\t' '(¡1¡ll' -''

Ito Phonofaxmarketedbycsl. Itcombinespro' crammabte reatureswithabuitt-inteteph'one.

the

of subscription; the rest the local call, companies, for example, can instruct the transmi,ssion is machine to send out press releases to a group Fax transmissions have been standardised of selected newspapers, via a transfer station. by the CCITT European standards-setting Fax has its drawbacks, too. Users comganisation. G3 (Group Three) is the standard plain of low-quality reproduction, transmisfor most laxes sold today, which transmit sion errors and high resend rates. is also pages at rates between I 2 seconds and 60 inconvenient to print a document off a peronds. A G4 standard, which requires sonal computer, and then send itthrough the

-

free.

-

-¡- N the future, when a documenl absoI lutely, positively has to be there overI night, will you call an air courier. send

or-

secdigital

It

telephone lines and reduces transmission fax. Alsothey take up desktopspace,scarce times to five seconds, ìs also available -- but in many offices.

presently used only in Japan, and will require Not that the enterprising technology a mass migration from G3 before it is practical manufacturers, which include Ricoh, Canon, because G4 is not compatible with G3.

Panasonic, NEC and Xerox and lto haven't been working on solutions to these problems.

AN IMPORTANT BENEFIT: Fax has other Faxes equipped with laser printers, such as benefits not related to free ìocal calls. Writers, the Ricoh FX830, provide desktopnolongeratthemercyofthe post, canstretch publìshing quality, though the price tags,

I

a fax or press a button on your computer?

Telecommunications has long held out the promise of the paperless office, but the ovemight courier services expect their flights will continue to carry documents across the world lor a long time to come.

John Kerr, Far East managing director for DHL Worldwide Express, cites office automation's failure to bring about the paperless office, as one reason for the document-moving business to grow ceaselessly.

"In 1982, there were 800 billion pieces of paper; by 1985, as people started talking about the paperless society, 1.3 trillion pieces of paper were being moved around the

world," he reasons.

Air couriers, which started in the late

1960s moving trade documents between ports, and later expanded to serve a variety

Domestic courier services are more

likely to be affected by the fax boom though air couriers, ol course. are international by nature. And people

use facsimile

like to send facsimile, can take and intemational air carriers for different of fax cards, such as EZ Fax, reasons, he says. For example, legal documents, such as bills of lading and letters manufactured by Gulfstream Micro Systems, sold at the Laptop Shop. For US$1,495, of credit, require an original signature. A you can purchase a board that allows you to send and receive

fax

from

your

fax, which is only a photocopy,

in

many

countries is not legally acceptable.

personal

Now that there is a movement among governments to allow manufacturers,

computer.

GROCERY LISTS, LOVE LETTERS: Facsimile is becoming so popular, it may some day telebe as common in the home as

the

phone. Faxphone combinations already exist in Japan, where little memo-sized

of paper can be sent from a unit that looks almost like an ordinary phone. sheets

Grocery lists, appointments, love letters -who knows what secÍets the telephone lines

importers and exporters to exchange data electronically, policy-makers are beginning to think twice about signature requirements. Should laws requiring signatures loosen up? Mr Leung admits, technology might begin to eat into his business.

DHL's John Kerr also expects mini-

mal interference

from technology

-

at

least until the mid-1990s. Then, as people who have grown up with technology enter top management positions, they will implement and use more-advanced communications systems, such as elect¡onic mail and

will carry?

data interchange networks, creating

a

greater impact on the courier business.

FAX AND CARRY: To prepare for this, some couriers are working to develop their

Despite the rapid growth of electronic communication and all the talk about the paperless office, document transfer by courier services continues to expand. ¡

the General Post Office, expects minimal intervention from fax, Hong Kong's most popular form of elecironic communications. The two services, he says, are in different leagues, and simply do not compete. "Speedpost cannot match fax in terms of speed, because fax is instant.

Sending a document by air courier takes befween one and three days."

but would advantage

for the information age

ofa

i"^ltl;,-^

INFOFAX: Hong Kong Telephone is about tolaunchaservice that will allow faxowners to take advantage of the polling feature.

Infofax will allow Faxline l00subscribers to receive via fax weather reports and forecasts,a weathermap, Mark Six results,and, in the future, financial information from

Couriers adopt strategies

can be had

off.

LEARNING PROCESS: Uptake has been slow forotherreasons. Nostandards existfor optical storage systems. That means if you buy a system from one vendor, you must alst) buy all your storage media from that vendor; one vendor's hardware cannot read anothers' disks. Even the disk sizes vary; they range from 3-ll2-inch through 5-114-inch to 12- and 14-inch. The industry is working on a standard to submit to the US ANSI standards-setting organisation, but when that will come about, and whether theequipment you buy now isgoingto be compatible with thatstan-

unit, which weighs in at 4.5 kilograms. .

Another solution to limited space is the Ito Phonofax sold by CSL. It has a built-in telephone to free it from dependence on a house phone, and allows it to be moved around the office, or carried home.

At the higher end, such features as emor correction, 32 kbytes of memory, broadcast ofupto 100 terminals and confidentialtransmissions are becoming more popular.

Another feature is polling, which allows users to access information off otherfax ma-

introduced, offer such features as btoadcast,

allowing users to initiate multiple transmissions - in this case up to25 -at the touch of a button. With this feature, public relations

ogy, costs always come down when sales take

A

PORTABLE: Faxes have also become more compact. The smallest is now the size of a typewriter. Ricoh has just introduced a small

Phonofax, which costs HK$9,500, can remember up to 70 numbers and be programmed to transmit at a particular time.

Fax, at least

Rental

ontinued

reading as high as HK$80,000, are aimed at high-volume users.

Other features such as half+one, which allow better image reproduction and higher resolution for small print, are available in

The number of faxlines in Hong Kong has increased

once, read many," is one

c

parcel business; others have adopted fax into their services. DHL, for example, introduced Satellite Express,

a

service whereby

your

of business, were at one time the only way

a delivery man appears at

to

takes your document and drives it down to the DHL station, where it is run through a laser fax and beamed up to a satellite and out to the DHL station nearest its destination, where it is printed on a laser printer. DHL claims it arrives in letter-perfect quality.

The GPO offers a less sophisticated service, called Postfax, which will simply transmit a fax to another country's post office, which will post it, or refax it to its

guarantee ovemight delivery to many areas, subject to time zones. Today they enjoy an approximate US$8-billion market worldwide, and the document side of their business enjoys a compound annual growth rate of between 20 per cent and 25 per cent per year.

The couriers are looking forward to

continued growth. Speedpost, the General Post Office's air courier service, has grown steadily since its inception in 1973.

Between fiscal 1978 and 1979, Speedpost delivered about 52,000 items. During the 1987-88 fiscal year, it delivered 1.3 million items, representing an increase of 32 per cent over the previous year. Sixty per cent of Speedpost's shipments are documents, the rest packages.

COMPETITION YET: Albert Leung, senior controller of postal marketing for

NO

destination. The results of the

office,

service,

which was introduced in 1984, have been disappointing says Leung. "We had an increase in usage during the first few years, then in 1986-87, outgoing traffic dropped 50 per cent. Faxes became so cheap to buy, demand for this service dropped," he explains.

It seems as if the couriers are not competing with fax, they are capitalising on it very well. Þ

AUGUST 1988 THE CORRESPONDENT 17

T-

CLUB RED CROSS

donesia, Hanoi, and Pnom Penh. B ut as far as China, Japan and the Koreas are concemed,

A lot of work to do in East Asia

we were not doing a very efficient job, just sending occasionally a team from Geneva into these countries. That's why we took the decision to set up this regional delegation.

Hong Kong seemed to be the best and mostlogical choice for many reasons. First, the British and the Hong Kong governments were sympathetic. Second, it was the only place in this area which met with no objections whatsoever from any government

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has received 75,000 tracing requests since China and Taiwan allowed their peoples family reunion visits last autumn. In North and South Korea, millions of families remain separated with no knowledge about their close relatives' whereabouts. These, says Peter Küng, the head of ICRC's new regional delegation based in Hong Kong, are some of the many problems that ICRC tackles in Asia. Addressing a professional luncheon at the FCC on July 1, Küng, a member of the club and who has served as an ICRC delegate in many trouble spots of the world including Lebanon, Israel and Africa, outlined the activities of the ICRC and the task it faces in the region. Excerpts: IRST AID. disaster relief, social services, blood donations '- these are the Red Cross activities which are usually known and appreciated around the

world. The Red Cross family consists of three main elements: 146 recognised international societies worldwide, the league of

these societies based in Geneva, and the

founding body, the International Commitof the Red Cross (ICRC).

The ICRC is a kind of strange animal.

Legally it is a Swiss institution constituted tee

by Swiss individuals under Swiss law. But by mandale and by its iield of action. it is an inter-

national organisation - maybe, more international than many other legally international organisations. Today, the ICRC has more than 500 people working at its headquafiers in Geneva and almost 3,000 in the

field

in more than 40 delegations, and many more outposts around the world. All ouractivitiesare carried out in acontextof intemational war or internal troubles or tension or, in

peace tìmes, as preparation for potential conflicts. That is ICRC's field of action.

MAIN ACTIVITIES: ICRC's activities can be divided into two main areas - assistance and protection. Assistance can range from giving cup of water to a wounded, or a cigarette to a prisoner of war to large-scale relief and media

cal operations.

Our criteria - first it must be an urgency situation; second, we want to cover only the basic needs; and third, only with the essential items. We, the¡efore, are not into long-term development aid or any such thing.

Another very impoftant consideration is the control of our actions. We want to control ou¡ actions from AtoZ. We want to evaluate,

1

8 THE CORRESPONDENT AUGUST

1988

we want todothe purchases, the transport, the stocking, and the distribution and reporting.

We want to do it ourselves, we want to be in charge of it.

PROTECTION: Who needs to be protected?

The Geneva conventions give the answer.

First convention. the wounded and sick on the battle field. Second, the shipwrecked, an experience olthe first world war. Third, the prisoners of war, andthe fourth, the civilians in the battle zones and occupied territories.

In brief, anybody and everybody who is out of combat and has a legal right for protection.

Now, how do we protect these people ? We don't have mighty weapons, nor have we mighty financial means. But there are a lot of poss ibi

Ii

ti es.

The filst and the most important is, we establish and develop contacts and dialogue wìth all parlies in a conflict. Even if they are very small splinter groups, we try to establish contactwith them. This is veryoften essential to be successful in protecting people. \ùy'e can organise evacuations as well as neutralise zones or buildings which we protect with the Red Cross emblem: hospitals, schools, our own deìegations and so on.

We visit prisoners of war, and security detainees. These visits are made with very strictcriterialike we want to visitall of them, visit them repeatedly talk to each prisoner of ouror their choìce without wìtness in orderto ensure that the prisoners are not put into any danger of punishment for what they have told us. If these basic conditions are not fulfilled, we will renounce the visit.

We also can exchange prisoners as we have done in the Middle East and in central America. We can, and we have to under the

of

the countries, regions and territories whichwecover. Third,it isan ideal place to get easy information and to have a good communication system in working order.

law, repatriate prisoners when the hostilities have ended; sometimes earlier than that if the prisoners are sick and, or, wounded.

A very important act of protection is the identification. The simple tàct that I write the full name - first name, second narne, family name - the age, the origin, the place where I see this person, the time when I see him, what is the name of the commander in charge and so on, has saved thousands and thousands of lives, especially in occupied territories and from concentration camps.This is the very basis of protection.

The Red Cross as a protected emblem can, sometimes, bemisused. Our premises, ourvehiclesand our people can beattacked, we can be intimidated, we can be kicked out of a country. All that has happened. We have a basic rule, that is, whatever we do should have, at least in principle, the consent of the armed authorìties in charge. We are not kind ofheroes. Wedon't want to be heroes, we just want to do our work succuessfully. So, sometimes, wedon'tgetit. Forinstance, inthe'40s we have had to wait until almost the end of the second world war to penetrate the Nazi death camps. So success is up and down.

WHY HONG KON(ì?: What do all these far away sìtuations and places have to do with Hong Kong?

East Asia today is one of the very important areas in the world. There are also important tensions and conflicts lingering in this area, No body writes about the Timor war these days, it seems to have been forgotten.

About 270,000 people remain trapped on the borders of Thailand with no future since the end of the '70s.

The ICRC has delegations in Burma, In-

NIEWS

Red Cross appeal wins 47 donors THE Hong Kong Red Cross received 47 blood donations

fromthe FCClastmonth.

The donations

made by members and

were

staff at

a special collection centre set up in the Club's Wyndham Room on July L Among the donors were (L to

members

R

from top)

of the club staff

And last, it has a lot ofother good points to live and to work in.

What we generally do in this region is develop the bestpossible relationswith the Red Cross societies, govemments, armed

Wendy Wong (right), Kan

forces, universities and the general public, In China, for instance, we have been able to arrange workshops and seminars for hundreds of people from the Foreign Affairs Ministry, the Armed Forces, the Defence Ministry, the universities as well as the different Red Cross branches.

of the club, Michael

Kwok (helow left), Billy Mak (below right),Ray Lee and Tony Chan (hottom ri ght) as well as a former president

Keats

(bottom left).

SINO-VIETNAMESE CONFLICT: In December 1986, we visited, for the first time, Vietnamese prisoners of war in China. And this year, we visited Chinese prisoners of war in

Vietnam.

CHINA\TAIWAN: Since last autumn when of Taiwan and China were allowed tocorrespondwith, and to visit, their relatives, we received almost 75,000 trac-

the people

ing requests and family messages to transmit. And atleast the same numberis piling up in the offices ofour partners -- the Chinese Red Cross Society in Beijing and the Red Cross in Taipei.

I have recently been totalktothe United States Forces forthe Far East about the intemational law. I have also been abletotalktoamixed public in the Grand People's Study House and Kim Ill Sung University in P¡,o¡gy¿ng. And, many JAPAN AND KOREA: able

other projects are on in South Korea and Japan.

We also have a lot of work which goes back to the second world war and dozens of cases relating to the Vietnam war. Recently, we have been able to repatriate a Korean

from Vietnam, who wassitting 12yearsin jail there. In Korea, millions of families still remain separated as a result of the northsouth conflictand still waiting to be even able to establish a single communication, to know whether their relatives are alive or dead, where they live and so on.

There is a lot of work to do in this region.

AUGUST 1988 THE CORRESPONDENT

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I

CLUB NEV/S TONIY BAYNES

A journey to T'aiPing uNGovER

but

group of gweilos

curious, a small melted in the early

morning heat of the Tai Kok Tsui Feny Pier. Most had never even heard of Tai Kok Tsui - despite the fact that between them they werc Heung Kong Yan with experience dating back to the second ice age.

But what were they doing there, pacing and shaking from their early moming jolt across the harbour?

It was by this time almost 9.30 and the question was still being asked through last night's haze.

The FCC's Julia Suen soon took matters in hand. She and Ian Jordan of Ewbank Preece Engineering ushered the small band oftravellers into the cattle lanes ofthe ferry departure. This was it, another FCC trip into the unknown - Shiajiao B Power station beware!

Amidst arguments of jetcat, hovercraft, jetfoil, or high speed ferry; assaulted by chicken wings, dried squid and ubiquitous noodles, we were shunted aboard our sleek craft to begin the 5O-mile joumey to T'ai Ping. T'ai Ping, so named because the shot

which was to mark the beginning of

the intriguingly named Anti-British Museum, which called us to voyage up the Pearl River estuary; was one of the most re-

it

markable achievements in engineering construction and business negotialion imaginable.

ln

19'79, Hopewell Holdings' dynamo, Gordon Wu, had planned to build the China Hotel in Guangzhou, 1,200 guest rooms, of-

168,000

square metres, and hailed as one of the finest hotels in China. By 1983 it was open, but

with problems

-

the electricity supply of Guangzhou, blackouts were commonplace.

Undaunted, in 1984 Gordon Wu planned to supply his own electricity and the Shiajiao B deal was bom.

Within just

three months, two million eaยกth had been moved.

Some 1.3 million cubic metres of mountain

cubic metยกes

of

levelled and, by February 1986, the foundations were completed. The 210metre-high chimney was completed in 45 days and by November 1987, both generathad been

20 THE CORRESPONDENT AUGUST

''

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Jack Jamieson (right) and Elizabeth Amgao, both guests of club member Ian Jordan with a power station executive.

the

Heavenly Empire was fired there in 1848. It was not, however, history, lap cheung, (for which T'ai Ping is equally famous) or even

fices and apartments totalling

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1988

Members of the team that visited the Shiajiao power station.

Life on the street of T'ai Ping.

iiiil!ililtilt

ing units were producing a maximum of 16.8 million kilowatt hours of electricity a

day. Consuming 2.8 million tonnes of coal annually, the power station was brought into service in world-record time; 1l months ahead of the 33-month schedule to provide light and power for GuangCong province.

By this time our shepherded band of FCC sightseers was becoming quite expert electricity generation. Besides, the lunch and Mateus Rose were beginning to take their toll. It was time to retum to our waiting hovercraft - or was it a jetfoil; no, a highat

speed

ferry.

Whatever,

it

carried

San

Miguel, and the after-cabin began to take on the familiar aspect of the FCC bar on a Friday night. Duly impressed at the wonder, foresight and entrepreneurial skill of Gordon Wu and the People's Govemment of Guangdong province, we thankedourkind hosts and began the serious drinking, electrified by the experience.

Waiting for thejourney tobegin, From

Lel;

Rosalind Kerr, M.C. Charlton and his son Richard, and Heinz Grabner.

The power station manager, Basil England (wearing spectacles) with some members of the visiting team.

Returningto Hong Kong. From Left: Tony Baynes, Jack Jamieson, Brian Turner, Ian Jordan and Dorothy Ryan begin to work up the Friday-night atmosphere of the FCC.

AUGUST 1988 THE CORRESPONDENT 2 I

BOOK

The future of Hong Kong: A provocative

China eams between 30 to 40 per cent foreign exchange here.

of

its

With investments and mutual interests such as these, why would Beijing want to do anything to undermine what the negotiators of the Sino-British Joint Declaration dubbed Hong Kong's "stability and prosperity"?

The answer, of course, is simple: The Chinese leadership wouldn't. Equally, however, that isn't the point.

assessment Basic Law, Basic Questions: lhe Debate

Continues, edited by William McGurn, Review Publishing Company, ISBN 9627010-32-4,pp218

THE UNPREDICTABLE FACTOR:

Hong

Kong's "brain drain", and the larger nervous condition identified several years ago as "1997 jitters", exists not because no money will be made after the hand-over in nine years or because unemployment is Iikely to still the productive hands of Hong Kong's

ASK Hong Kong's secretary for general duties, Barrie Wiggham, or even the govemor, Sir David Wilson, why anyone should remain in the tenitory after 1997. The reply is an impressive list of statistics.

Exports, rising, make this 400-squaremile area of earth the l3th-largest trading

workforce.

nation in the world. Per capita GDP, at US$6,761, is among the highest in Asia, leading some Westem European countries.

Apart from the dominant British interests here, more than 900 American firms have invested more than US$6 billion, and Japan's 800 local firms have tripled their investment since 1981, making Hong Kong the seventhlargest investment market in the world for

Lau life an extension of govemment policy.

Hicks and his fellow authors retum to this point again and again. Beijing's neurosis fo¡ control combined with Hong Kong's colonial political structure, which was never designed for either accountability or accessibility, together present the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region with a life-th¡eatenlng srtuahon.

bt

the Japanese.

FAILURE AND CONTRADICTIONS: ThC Basic Law, of course, was supposed to address this problem, and Hong Kong eagerly

seven per cent,

awaited its separation of powers, its designation of an independent judiciary, its

Clossing nears completion, four

checked and balanced division between Beijing and the SAR govemment.

In the event, however, say Basic Law, Basíc' Questions essayists, Hong Kong got less than it had hoped for.

Martin Lee, lawyer, Legislative Coun-

The economy is growing at a rate of with full employmenl. Kwai Chung overtook Rotterdam this year as the world's largest container poÍ. Freight volume, both sea and air, continues to accelerate, and the construction industry is booming as the HK$3 billion Eastem Harbour ahead

months

It exists because in Beijing's vision, nothing can operate beyond the control of its politics. The economy must, after all,

of schedule.

Are

these numbers symptomatic of un-

cefiainty, fragility or failing confidence? Is this sort of economy possible in a politi-

cally unstable environment?

The numbers are the more persuasive when China's contribution to them is examined.

CHINA'S ROLE: In 1978, Hong Kong exported almost nothing to China, while

China supplied only 17 per cent

of

Hong Kong's imports. By 1987, however, Hong Kong drew 31 per cent of its imports from China, which, in turn, took 14.4 per cent of Hong Kong's shipments.

Between 1979 and 1985, Hong Kong provided 60 per cent of China's foreign investment. The Chinese Intemational Trust and Investment Corporation owns a significant piece of Hong Kong's flag carrier, Cathay Pacific Airways. Mainland interests control l5 local banks and a huge variety of other business. More than 2,800 Chinese vessels use Hong Kong's port annually, almost 10 times the number 10 years ago.

Two-waytrade is worth US$15 billion and

22 THE C0RRESPONDENT AUGUST

1

serve the state, and, in plain fact, when discussing numbers like the ones from both Wiggham and the govemor, both the "redeye disease" and greed become wildly unpredictable elements in the political equatlon.

It is a potentially fatal enor to confuse free trade with freedom, as author and industrialist George Hicks points out in an essay titled "Red Capitalism", one of seven in

the book.

Hicks points to two of Asia's "four tigers", Singapore and Taiwan, as proof of Chinese economic success without liberal democracy. The difference between those two tigers and the People's Republic of China, however, is the classic difference between authoritarian and totalitarian govemment.

The former makes few demands on its citizens other than that they eschew politics.

The latter, however, intrudes into every facet of both personal and professional life, making every act a tool of the state and every

98 8

cillor and Basic Law d¡after with

a seat on

the political-structure subcommittee. opens the book with a legalistic if erudite examination of the points he feels most erode the promised "high degree of autonomy".

He combs the document for its flaws, finding enough significant failures and contradictions of British common law to conclude glumly that "the objectives of the Joint

Declaration are not likely to be implemented".

John Walden, a former director of Home Affairs, devotes 13 pages to his fundamental concem that the Basic Law intends to preserve the current colonial system in all its parts, the better to serve undemocratic instincts.

''The intent

is plain enough,

"

he writes.

"It is to preserve the present imbalance of power whereby the civil service enjoys a virtual monopoly

of

executive decision-

making and policy formulation."

Emily Lau, Hong Kong correspondent of the Far Easret'n Economic Review and long outspokenly suspicious of Beijing, suggests China's fundamental failure to grasp the essence of a free press points to a far larger

Ha

failure to grasp the fundamentals of the society in which that press exists.

In fact, Lau almost need not bother arguing. Her case is framed, delivered, signed and sealed by the law drafters themselves in Chapter III, Article 39: "The rights and freedoms enjoyed by

Hong Kong residents shall not be restricted unless prescribed by law. But such restrictions shall not go beyond the necessity for the maintenance of national security, pulic order, pubìic safety, public heaìth, public morals and for the safeguarding of the rights and freedoms of other persons.

"

Frank Ching, former Beijing correspondent fo¡ lhe Wall Streel Journal, author of Ancestors. 900 years in the Life of a Chinese Family, and freelance journalist, examines

A pessimist's view of the future The confusion of the confusions -- The Great Money lllusion, by Marc Faber, Longman, ISBN o582 999049, pp 507.

MARC FABER, renowned in Hong Kong lor his pessimistic views on major international markets and known to a lesser extent for his brave, contrarian, bullish calls on such areas as Thailand, Chile, and, this year, the US dollar, explains the economic and psychological reasoning behind these conclusions in this witty, personal and erudite book. He uses a semi-diary, semi-historical-novel style of presentation to desc¡ibe his life in the financial world and the characters and momentous events which caused the often violent fluctuations in stock, bond andcommoditymarkets, and moulded his ideas on how these experiences can be used to forecast similar pattems in dilfering markets.

Faber is, above all, a contra¡ian. He argues strongly for the chartist ideal which

Chang the ill-defined area of nationality. He discovers enormous cause for insecurity among holders of both British Dependent Territories Citizen and British National (Overseas) pass-

The Reverend Louis Ha, of Hong Kong's

Roman Catholic Diocese, member of the Basic Law Consultative Committee and edi-

ports.

Are they British? They possess the nationality, but no right of abode in the United Kingdom. China does not allow dual nationality. Are they, then, Chinese?

The Basic Law seems to indicate they are, but Ching cites historical and legal precedent to cast doubt on such an arbitrary

claim. China's attitude is, at best, ambigu-

tactic of conferrìng on British citizens,

ous, he says, and the

Chinese nationality

"whether they are holders of the British Dependent Terri tories Ci tizen passport or not " , is dubious.

tor of the weekly Kung Kao P¿.¡, worries that the Basic Law fails to safeguard hu-

man rights and the freedoms traditionally

glanted in Hong Kong through benign administration rather than legal stipulation, Confidence in Hong Kong has been eroded by Britain's Ieluctance to so stipulate before the handover. Ha also, however, makes the curious claim that the same Chapter III, Article 39 quoted by Lau as a clcar and present danger actually provides comfolt to civil libertarians by restrictin! the power of legislation of "the lights and freedoms enjoyed by Hong Kong residents".

His essay is, in fact, the weakest selection here, treading a more conciliatory path

assumes that mass psychology influences major trends and turningpoints in marketsat

all times and thereby creates shoft- medium-

and long-term cycles both in price movements and economies. The chapter titles such as "Years of Madness", "The Casino Society" andthesub-title "Confusion of the Confusions", portray financial changes as the result of insufficiently strict crowd control -by governments and central banks on intemational investors and specuìators.

Throughout these retrospective revelations, the author continually shows that the authorities can neither control these crowds nor the economies for which they are responsible. "Ireiterate my view that thosepeopÌe who claim that the US administration will prevent a recession from occurring in 1988 are expressing a level ofconfidence in government which cannot be supported by historical facts

.

!

"

This

is an easy book to read as an insight into world events over the past 40 years, and apersonalviewof the next fewdecades. It is

amply supplied with chans and diagrams to simplify the reasoning schematically and, not surprisingly, shows a deep understanding of

the forces which are

cific region

to the

likely to push the

Pa-

forefront ofworld econo-

mies in the future.

Faber is stiÌl pessimistic on many markets and feels we are in the downtrend of a

long cycle

- "The

stock-markets are

clearly telling us that something stinks" but he also has "no doubt that...the entire Asian Pacific region will expand in the next 5

0 vears above-average

t2ikllïi);0,,,

AUGUST I988 THE CORRESPONDENT 23

B

PEOPLE

OOKS

The future of Hong Kong than the

FCC

.ontinuett

member and long-time Hong Kong

resident, Russell

--

other six. Neve¡theless, he closes

Spurr

has

done it again

another speltbinding book; this time about how China became involved in the

with a call for explicit protection of civil rights: "What the public of Hong Kong stitl awaits, and what the first draft of the Basic Law will hardly convince them of, is that

Korean war.

these rights are there to be protected and respected for their own sake rather than for

any

of the numerous

short-term political

goals they might serve."

THE VIEW FROM BEIJING: The final

se-

lection in Basic Lau', Basit' Questions is a fascinating study of the other side of the inquiry, "How China Sees It" is written by Denis Chang, former chairman of the Hong

readied, Day should, indeed, be too busy.

Emigrant is published by Media Productions Limited, the Cayman Island-based associate of the highly successful Asian Sources Group of Trade Joumals founded

by FCC member Merle Hinrichs.

News about the new venture has not re-

Kong Bar Association and executive member of the Basic Law Consulative Committee.

Chang says Beijing's concept of autonomy is fundamentally different than Hong Kong's, and that the provisions of the Basic Law are a logical and unsurprising expression of its view, Realisation of sovereignty, he writes, is seen as "real and effective control based on leadership of the centre". That basis, he says, "permits no dilution of power that has

ally pleased everyone.

Some say the magazine is designed spe-

not

been consciously and exclusively granted the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region' '.

In

His first

other words, the law is a carefully

drafted document that means exactly what

it

its shortcomings may identify accurately what is missing, but the failures are the result of neither oversight

published

in

book, A Gloríous Way to Die, 198 l, received rave reviews

says. Complaints about

for its dramatic yet historically accurate presentation of the story of the 1945 suicide mission of the Japanese battleship

nor omrssron,

Yamato. A selection of four book clubs, it was translated into six languages including

"Those powers that have been reserved to Peking," Chang says, "are not (a) residue, but a reservoir. China's view of 'one country, two systems' allows no place for any system of govemment that competes with the basic political structure of the state." the

He concludes by echoing Hicks's fear of politicisation of economics, which is in-

evitable in the law's present foffn.

Institution of democratic reforms now, he says, "would help achieve the necessary balance that might otherwise be lost in the event that, as this Draft Basic Law suggests, the lines between political and economic power become bluned."

Basic Law, Basic Questions is a pessimistic, provocative and proud assessment of the prospects for Hong Kong's future, It

Japanese

and

classicThe Last Nine Days of the Bismarck.

Now, in his second book, Enter the Dragon, Spurr once again combines years of painstaking research with his powerful storytelling skill to recreate a big East-West military misadventure

stalemate. Spurr, one of the first Westem correspondents to report from Beijing after the founding of the People's Republic, had the unique opportunity to use Chinese and

Korean archives as well as to interview PLA survivors, from runners through staff officers, for his new book.

Enter the Dragon, released recently in

the United States, has already received

the rest of the

are regrettable, but do not

detract seriously

from a set of clarion enquiries that are, un-

Stoner

24 THE CORRESPONDENTAUGUST

El

of

the

journal. Curiosity

from the critical comments

arising

seems to have

helped advertising sales. More than 40 per

cent

of

the 10O-plus-page inaugural issue

is advertising.

With an initial print run of 50,000, the

Tarrant, whose company TPS PublishConsultants now owns Eating & Drinking in Hong Kong, and Thomas are happy about the way the destiny of the

ing

joumal has changed. And according to Tar-

bilingual (English and Chinese) monthly is said to be aiming at a guaranteed circulation of 30,000 at a cover price of HK$20. About half of the circulation, the publishers hope, scriptions priced at

will be in $I

was interested in becoming a substantial shareholder as well as the joint managing director of the venture. Says Durup: "David Tanant and I were talking at that time about both of us holding equal stakes in the company with at least one other smaller paftner."

That, somehow, didn't occur.

According

to

Tarrant, the negotiations

fell through due

to Durup's involvement in establishing his own PR firm. That, Tarrant adds, is "no mean feat by any stretch of the imagination and I wish him luck."

annual sub-

20.

And about the nail on Hong Kong's coffin, Day had repeatedly said that the

Tarrant,

27, Hong Kong-bom,

new journal is not trying to encourage people to leave Hong Kong, but simply

do, mainly, Eating

give them the facts to help them with their

Kong. His

choices. Þ

AFTER five months of caring, Ted Thomas has parted with his recent love. And the man who takes over from where Thomas leaves off is David Tarrant who has been working with Thomas since late last year. "lt was an amicable and mutually beneficial anangement," says Tarrant of his acquisition of the magazine Eating & Drinking in Hong Kong, which Thomas founded early this year.

At a cocktail reception held at the FCC seven months ago to mark the launching of the magazine, Thomas said that he had budgetted for the venture to break even after five or six months, but "We broke even on the first issue". Why, then, did he decide to part with it?

With Thomas away in London, Tanant explained that, with its rapid growth, the magazine started claiming too much of Thomas' time which he was unable to give because of his increasing commitments to other areas of his business.

has

been involved with the magazine from the idea stage, joining Thomas last December to

Tarrant

& Drínking in Hong association with the publishing industry started about four years ago when he retumed from a three-year stint in Au stralia and joined Communication Management Ltd as assistant advertising manager of Hong Kong Business, Later, he became the advertising manager of the magazine, but left it in 1986 and worked with Asian Compuler Monthly as advertising manager until last December when he joined Thomas.

And now, as publisher of Eating & Drinking in Hong Kong, he sees an exciting future

rant, Thomas will continue to write for the magazine. Perhaps the only person who may not be equally happy is Cyril Durup, who worked with Thomas' public relations company, Corporate Communications, and was a contribulor to Eating & Drinking ln Hong Kong.

Durup moved out of Corporate Communications recently and set up his own public relations firm - suitably named Insertions - which will concentrate on such service sectors as hotels, nightclubs, airlines, wine companies, and such like. And he had aspirations about acquiring Eating & Drinking

no different from Thomas' in its early days, and will turn others nursing similar new ventures green with envy. Says Tarrant: "While I was negotiating the takeover, I had thought that we might have to raise additional capital to finance a much-needed promotion drive. But it so turned out that

in Hong Kong from Thomas.

would

this additional cost can be met by the rising

seem sensible, since those will be my interests in the PR company," Durup toldThe Corresponden¡ in mid-June (C. July '88).

But last month he explained that he did not make a direct bid for the magazine; he

advertising revenue."

Tanant says he has devised a "master plan" for increasing the magazine's circulation and advertising appeal; and a promotion drive has already begun.

"lt

ahead.

Tarrant's view of his new acquisition is

that

counts the most: Beijing. - Tad

The spotty problems of punctuation, mis-

spelling and occasional omission of words

makers

claimed more than four million civilian and military lives and finally ended in a

fortunately, likely to be ignored where it

ough emendation of the law.

cifically for people who are worried about their future in Hong Kong after the territory reverts to China's sovereignty in 1997.

And therefore, they argue, it will prove to be another nail on Hong Kong's coffin as it will help accelerate the brain drain which has already risen to alarming proportions.

Hong Kong, they point out, has not taken

likened to C.S. Foster's

many reviews praising it in the superlative.

"I read it in a single sitting and was fascinated," says Antoinette May, author of Witness to War: A Biography of Marguerite Higgins. And Joseph C. Goulden, author of Korea; The Untold Story of theWar, says: "If you buy one book on Korea this year, opt for Spurr, who is four furlongs ahead of

makes no concessions, avoids antagonism, but ¡esounds with articulate calls for thor-

BUSY, make that very busy, Richard Day, publications director of Hong Kong's newest magazine, Emigrant, was so wrapped up, in mid-July, getting his new f'ull-colour monthly off the ground that he couldn't spare even l0 minutes on the phone to talk about the progress ofthe project.

A spokesman for Day said in mid-July that the boss was simply too busy to answer questions about the new venture for at least a couple of weeks. That's understandable.

With pubtication date (Aug 8) less than a month away then and, according to insiders, a congenial working space for the men and women recruited to run the show still to be

1988

field".

kindly to the recent Australian decision to relax its immigration laws or to foreign lawyers coming to the territory to provide immigration advice to potential runaways.

Others, mostly in Hong Kong's overcrowded trade media scene, are simply jealous about the march Hinrichs and Day have stolen on them.

When the lirst issue came out crit¡cs were surprised to see that all the unsympathetic comments have, in fact, helped the

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Balsi photographed them against a theme backgroundof apingpong match in reference

to what was then called,

and subsequently

came to be known as, pingpong diplomacy.

Within months of publication, our fashion prediction was proved accurate, as the fashioncapitalsofthe world took up theChinese

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Dinshaw Balsara, Balsi to friends, died the way he fancied he would - on assignment with a camera in his hands and exposure-meter around his neck.

On

July 25, the shutter momentarily

jammed as Balsi collapsed in a heap in the scalding plus-3Os heat of an aftemoon assignment in Aberdeen, Hong Kong. Rushed to Queen Mary Hospital, he was pronounced dead on arrival.

As creative photographers go, Balsi was in asuper-fast laneby himself. A self-taught orphan, who put himself through art school clubs in the'50s,hesoaredto dizzy heights æ a versatile and much-soughrafter photographer in Hong Kong where he was based since mid-'60s. But his linal years in a rags-toriches ascent were also marked by a sincere and touching humility. For someone who made and spent a lot of money as though money was going out of fashion, Balsi, who had a marked resemblance to the Beatles guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, was a man of simple habits in

clothes, food and

the company he

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''Over many

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gratifying

experience to watch the work of Dinshaw Balsara mature. The hurdles have been mighty, but it is his love of life, devotion and determination to succeed in photography that

will certainly win him adistinguishedposition among the photographers of the world."

Derek A.C. Davies: "In this age of the specialist, DinshawBalsara has succeededin being a specialist in many fields of photography. His works include high-budget advertising campaigns, editorial portraits of the rich and famous, elaborate hotel portfolios, intense fashion-show assignments, and quiet personal pictures taken simply to satisfy his

a

big way.

"Although I am no longer actively involved in coordinating similar efforts, I continue to have tremendous respect for Balsi, both the man and his cameras."

Peter French : ' 'It i s perhaps not unrelated

that The Mandarin, Hong Kong, is consistently voted among the best hotels in the world - ifthey ever vote the best hotel photographer in the world, The Mandarin's vote goe s without doubt to Dinshaw Balsara."

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the leadership in Beijing and the rest of the world, through his work in journalism and his activities with the Chinese Communist Party, has been the head of Hong Kong 7a Kung Pao since 1948.

Yang, a native ofZhong Shan in Guangdong, has meanwhile been involved in the local propaganda front for many years.

in Hong Kong, Yang once

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"To me, their concem, kindness and encouragement were more than medicine can do to boost my morale and to renew my courage to hght on," he said in his July 17 letter.

And, speaking toThe Correspondent, on July 30,Tsengsaidthathe receives one chemotherapy treatrnent a month. His body's reaction to the first treatment, he said, was ' 'a bit bad;" but it responded well to the second. The third treatment begîns onAugust l.

ll MURRAY (Mr. Travel Publishing) Bailey, who moved out of Interasia Publications (publishers of Asia Travel Trade and Business Traveller) last October and launched the newsletter-style TravelTrade Analysl, has taken up an additional responsibility lately. He is now travef business editor of Asian Business.

HONG KoNc-educated Yang Qi has taken over the reins of fhe Ta Kung Pao, one of two prominent pro-Beijing dailies.

The 66-year-old Yang, until recently secretary-general at the Hong Kong branch of Beijing's Xinhua news agency, takes over the position following the death of publisher Fei Yi-ming in May. Fei, once described as a bridge between

he should be walking out of the hopsital in the latter part of September.

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Listed below are a few samples: Brian Brake: "To photograph is to observe, to record - and to comment. Photographers react totheir viewfinders and eachsubject with an individual attitude and to each with a different eye. It is this vision, the most important aspect ofthe craft that establishes the master craftsman - the artist.

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