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Tragedy and Farce in Hong Kong

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Philip Bowring
Apr 03, 2009
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Two disparate incidents, one involving tragedy the questionable death at the hands of a police of a Hong Kong-born Nepali resident, and the other a farce that started with a misunderstood humor column, illustrate just how much of a gap exists between the city’s largely Chinese citizens and its minorities.

The tragedy involves Ram Limbu, an apparently men…

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