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Goodbye to All That: Wan Chai Under Threat

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Oct 24, 2008
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Hong Kong's Wan Chai district, the raucous home away from home for tens of thousands of Jack Tars, GIs and US sailors for generations, is beginning to gentrify, squeezing the famed bar area into ever smaller bits under the relentless wrecking ball of the Urban Renewal Agency.

The latest cleanup revolves around a block-size area along Johnston Road that l…

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