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Monday, June 30 1997
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Island of the day before -- There is no freedom at midnight![[Details]](/icons/bullet.gif){kind=icon}
The last day in the life of a Crown Colony. At midnight Hong Kong will give itself to a new kingdom. What has been described with banal, business-like understatement as `handover' is, in reality, a historic rupture in the lifeline of a megalopolis.
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Hong Kong handover -- China doomed to democracy
What should be the speed of liberalisation and what should be the institutions that would ensure citizens' rights without igniting the kind of disruption and disorder that overwhelmed the former Soviet Union?
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Victory for the Net -- Censorship in any form is abominable
Internet users around the world will welcome the end to the long controversy in the US over banning pornography on the Net and its denouement in a US Supreme Court ruling. For the single most important lesson is, the Net remains outside the reach of governments.
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Email's freedom trap Time for a bully pulpit presidency
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