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| | 'Spike' pokes at Hong Kong | csmonitor.com |
 | | Vines, a well-known Hong Kong media figure, who says his weekly magazine is founded upon a democratic spirit that emerged during last summer's protests - when a half-million demonstrators, including bankers, lawyers, and doctors, marched against antisubversion laws that would curb free expression. |
 | | The cover of the first edition shows Chief Tung dumping a box of ballots, thinking to himself, "We won't be needing these, then." The content is a grab bag of goofy and spoofy, interspersed with hard-hitting pieces on politics, stuffed shirts, and corruption in Hong Kong and the region. |
 | | One Chinese reader says she won't keep buying the magazine, because she feels it is written for the several hundred thousand expats living here. |
| www.csmonitor.com /2004/0106/p07s01-woap.html (678 words) |
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