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BBC News- 23 Nov, 2012 Fifteen years after the handover of Hong Kong, the new Chinese leadership in Beijing is getting increasingly nervous about the former colony's independent-mindedness. A senior Chinese official in charge of Hong Kong affairs, Zhang Xiaoming, has accused "external powers" - presumably Britain and the US... 

Washington Post- Nov. 26, 2012 SINGAPORE — With its drab dormitories and factory buildings, the Woodlands industrial area of Singapore could not be further removed from the city-state’s image as a burgeoning Asian financial center. But this week, 259 bus drivers from mainland China went on a two-day strike at a public bus... 

(Photo Mr Brown) (29 Nov) - SO RARE is industrial action in Singapore that the government and press seem to be hazy about the vocabulary. When 171 bus drivers employed by SMRT, a government-owned firm, refused to go to work on November 26th and staged a sit-in at their dormitory, the Straits Times, a pro-government daily,...