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Hong Kong's Buffalo Wars

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May 31, 2011
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Hong Kong has a history of obliterating its own history, tearing out vibrant neighborhoods and villages and replacing them with new forests of high rise skyscrapers. Now it's developers and indigenous villagers on Lantau Island who are seeking to obliterate another bit – the clutch of water buffalo left over from the island's farming days.

But it hasn't …

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