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Hong Kong’s Racial Bias

Our Correspondent
Feb 27, 2007
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The vivid posters around Hong Kong’s Central District proclaim

Hong Kong to be Asia’s World

City. But at best this

self-accorded accolade looks increasingly threadbare and at worst hides a

worrying level of discrimination against “brown” Asians from the Indian

subcontinent and Southeast Asia.

Over the past five years, the number of ethnic non-Chinese

has falle…

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