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Re: {Off Topic} - ATT: Mr. Man-wai Chang - Hong Kong Booksellers Pull Anti-China Publications After Mysterious Disappearances

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burfordTjustice pretended :
> On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 09:16:53 -0800
> none <none@none.invalid> wrote:
>
 Buuuuurfoooooord, I appreciate you giving me the opportunity to repost 
my questions to Man-Wai Chang.  I suspect he is very appreciative of 
your assistance, which I am sure is exactly what you wanted to 
accomplish.......

You are as dumb as a sack of hammers.


Mr. Man-wai Chang, how do you explain the disappearance of five Hong 
Kong resident and the removal of books critical to the People's 
Republic of China?

You do not support the actions of your government, do you?

You have been critical of such actions in the past, what is your 
position now?


"Hong Kong Booksellers Pull Anti-China Publications After Mysterious 
Disappearances"

http://www.ibtimes.com/hong-kong-booksellers-pull-anti-china-publications-after-mysterious-disappearances-2258105


Hong Kong booksellers and publishers have started removing politically 
sensitive books from their shops, according to several media reports. 
The move was triggered by the latest disappearance of a bookstore 
employee — one working for a firm producing books critical of Chinese 
leaders.

Lee Bo, a British national and chief editor of Causeway Bay Books, 
which produced books on Chinese politics, was last seen on Dec. 30 at 
the publisher’s warehouse. His wife reportedly withdrew a missing 
persons report soon after filing it, claiming Lee had traveled to China 
to voluntarily assist in an unspecified investigation.

Owners of three stores selling books on political topics refused to be 
publicly interviewed fearing backlash from the mainland, Reuters 
reported. On Thursday, the Guardian reported that Page One, a major 
Singapore book retailer with shops in both Hong Kong and mainland 
China, decided to stop selling politically sensitive books written in 
Chinese.

Four other employees of Causeway Bay Books and Mighty Current, another 
publishing house, have disappeared since late last year. Hong Kong 
Police have said that they continue to investigate while China has yet 
to clarify on the fate of the men.

The disappearances have fuelled speculation that enforcement officials 
from the mainland have abducted the booksellers. Hong Kong, which is a 
special administrative region of China, operates under the "one 
country, two systems" policy that grant it autonomy and freedom from 
certain laws that govern the mainland. However, activists have 
complained of Beijing's growing interference and influence in Hong Kong 
in recent years.

"Nobody is safe in Hong Kong now," Bao Pu, a prominent publisher in 
Hong Kong, told Reuters. Bao, who published the secret memoirs of Zhao 
Ziyang, a former Communist Party general secretary, was openly critical 
of the events, and told Reuters that he suspected mainland officials.

Albert Ho, a pro-democracy lawmaker, told CNN: "It's a forced 
disappearance. All those who have disappeared are related to the 
Causeway Bay bookshop and this bookshop was famous, not only for the 
sale, but also for the publication and circulation of a series of 
sensitive books."

U.K. Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond reportedly said he was unable 
determine the booksellers' whereabouts after raising the case with 
Chinese and Hong Kong officials during a two-day trip to Beijing."

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{Off Topic} - ATT: Mr. Man-wai Chang - Hong Kong Booksellers Pull Anti-China Publications After Mysterious Disappearances none <none@none.invalid> - 2016-01-10 05:48 -0800
  Re: {Off Topic} - ATT: Mr. Man-wai Chang - Hong Kong Booksellers Pull Anti-China Publications After Mysterious Disappearances burfordTjustice <burfordTjustice@buh.boh> - 2016-01-10 08:54 -0500
    Re: {Off Topic} - ATT: Mr. Man-wai Chang - Hong Kong Booksellers Pull Anti-China Publications After Mysterious Disappearances none <none@none.invalid> - 2016-01-10 06:21 -0800
      Re: {Off Topic} - ATT: Mr. Man-wai Chang - Hong Kong Booksellers Pull Anti-China Publications After Mysterious Disappearances burfordTjustice <burfordTjustice@buh.boh> - 2016-01-10 09:25 -0500
        Re: {Off Topic} - ATT: Mr. Man-wai Chang - Hong Kong Booksellers Pull Anti-China Publications After Mysterious Disappearances none <none@none.invalid> - 2016-01-10 06:40 -0800
          Re: {Off Topic} - ATT: Mr. Man-wai Chang - Hong Kong Booksellers Pull Anti-China Publications After Mysterious Disappearances burfordTjustice <burfordTjustice@buh.boh> - 2016-01-10 10:56 -0500
            Re: {Off Topic} - ATT: Mr. Man-wai Chang - Hong Kong Booksellers Pull Anti-China Publications After Mysterious Disappearances none <none@none.invalid> - 2016-01-10 09:16 -0800
              Re: {Off Topic} - ATT: Mr. Man-wai Chang - Hong Kong Booksellers Pull Anti-China Publications After Mysterious Disappearances burfordTjustice <burfordTjustice@buh.boh> - 2016-01-10 12:18 -0500
                Re: {Off Topic} - ATT: Mr. Man-wai Chang - Hong Kong Booksellers Pull Anti-China Publications After Mysterious Disappearances none <none@none.invalid> - 2016-01-10 09:46 -0800
                Re: {Off Topic} - ATT: Mr. Man-wai Chang - Hong Kong Booksellers Pull Anti-China Publications After Mysterious Disappearances burfordTjustice <burfordTjustice@buh.boh> - 2016-01-10 15:32 -0500
  Re: {Off Topic} - ATT: Mr. Man-wai Chang - Hong Kong Booksellers Pull Anti-China Publications After Mysterious Disappearances "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-01-11 02:54 +0800
    Re: {Off Topic} - ATT: Mr. Man-wai Chang - Hong Kong Booksellers Pull Anti-China Publications After Mysterious Disappearances none <none@none.invalid> - 2016-01-10 11:09 -0800
      Re: {Off Topic} - ATT: Mr. Man-wai Chang - Hong Kong Booksellers Pull Anti-China Publications After Mysterious Disappearances "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-01-11 03:20 +0800
        Re: {Off Topic} - ATT: Mr. Man-wai Chang - Hong Kong Booksellers Pull Anti-China Publications After Mysterious Disappearances "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-01-11 03:25 +0800
          Re: {Off Topic} - ATT: Mr. Man-wai Chang - Hong Kong Booksellers Pull Anti-China Publications After Mysterious Disappearances none <none@none.invalid> - 2016-01-10 13:15 -0800
            Re: {Off Topic} - ATT: Mr. Man-wai Chang - Hong Kong Booksellers Pull Anti-China Publications After Mysterious Disappearances "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-01-11 19:55 +0800
        Re: {Off Topic} - ATT: Mr. Man-wai Chang - Hong Kong Booksellers Pull Anti-China Publications After Mysterious Disappearances none <none@none.invalid> - 2016-01-10 13:05 -0800
          Re: {Off Topic} - ATT: Mr. Man-wai Chang - Hong Kong Booksellers Pull Anti-China Publications After Mysterious Disappearances "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-01-11 19:55 +0800

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