Montag, Juni 11, 2007
Man gönnt sich ja sonst nichts...(Doha am Persischen Golf)

Am Mittwoch werde ich nach Mitternacht mit Qatar-Airline über Arabien (warum denn einfach und schnell wenn's auch umständlich geht?) mit einem 2 stündigen Stopover in Doha nach Frankfurt fliegen. Ich werde, wenn alles gut geht, rund 2 Monate in Deutschland bleiben.(bis Mitte August) Ich freue mich auf 's Wiedersehen mit Familie und Freunden!!
Obdachlos in Hong Kong!
Donnerstag, Juni 07, 2007
Aus Wikipedia zum Tiananmen -Massaker in Peking
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
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Student flag-waver at the Tiananmen Square protests, May 1989, Tiananmen Square, Beijing.
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 were a series of demonstrations led by students, intellectuals, and labour activists in the People's Republic of China (PRC) between April 15, 1989 and June 5, 1989. While the protests lacked a unified cause or leadership, participants were generally critical of the ruling Chinese Communist Party and voiced complaints ranging from minor criticisms to calls for full-fledged democracy and the establishment of broader freedoms. The demonstrations centred on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, but large-scale protests also occurred in cities throughout China, including Shanghai, which stayed peaceful throughout the protests. In Beijing, the resulting military crackdown on the protesters by the PRC government left many civilians dead or injured. The toll ranges from 200–300 (PRC government figures), to 400–800 by The New York Times, and to 2,000–3,000 (Chinese student associations and Chinese Red Cross).
Following the violence, the government conducted widespread arrests to suppress protestors and their supporters, cracked down on other protests around China, banned the foreign press from the country and strictly controlled coverage of the events in the PRC press. Members of the Party who had publicly sympathized with the protesters were purged, with several high-ranking members placed under house arrest, such as General Secretary Zhao Ziyang. The violent suppression of the Tiananmen Square protest caused widespread international condemnation of the PRC government.[1]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Student flag-waver at the Tiananmen Square protests, May 1989, Tiananmen Square, Beijing.
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 were a series of demonstrations led by students, intellectuals, and labour activists in the People's Republic of China (PRC) between April 15, 1989 and June 5, 1989. While the protests lacked a unified cause or leadership, participants were generally critical of the ruling Chinese Communist Party and voiced complaints ranging from minor criticisms to calls for full-fledged democracy and the establishment of broader freedoms. The demonstrations centred on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, but large-scale protests also occurred in cities throughout China, including Shanghai, which stayed peaceful throughout the protests. In Beijing, the resulting military crackdown on the protesters by the PRC government left many civilians dead or injured. The toll ranges from 200–300 (PRC government figures), to 400–800 by The New York Times, and to 2,000–3,000 (Chinese student associations and Chinese Red Cross).
Following the violence, the government conducted widespread arrests to suppress protestors and their supporters, cracked down on other protests around China, banned the foreign press from the country and strictly controlled coverage of the events in the PRC press. Members of the Party who had publicly sympathized with the protesters were purged, with several high-ranking members placed under house arrest, such as General Secretary Zhao Ziyang. The violent suppression of the Tiananmen Square protest caused widespread international condemnation of the PRC government.[1]
Tiananmen- Wache im 18. Jahr!
Jedes Jahr am 4. Juni versammeln sich Tausende von Hongkongern im Viktoria-Park und protestieren friedlich mit brennenden Kerzen, Gesang und Reden gegen das brutale Vorgehen der damaligen chinesischen Machthaber.
Nichts für schwache Nerven!!
10 Jahre nach dem handover
Für die Kinder der vielen "Expat"-Familien und Minoritäten (Inder etc.) gibt es nicht genug Schulen mit Englisch als Unterrichts-Medium.
Überall wird Mandarin, die Sprache des Festlands gesprochen , und das Image des früher mal ärmlichen Festland-Chinesen in schäbiger Kleidung hat sich inzwischen total verändert in Richtung "reicher Verwandter", der sich alles leisten kann und den Hongkongern den Wohnungsmarkt durcheinander bringt..