FTrashisation of Chingay Parade

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</TD><TD class=row1 height=28 vAlign=top width="100%"><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD width="100%">Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 10:13 pm Post subject: Chingay started with all Singaporeans, but today u</TD><TD vAlign=top noWrap> </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2>hardly see any local dances, so many imported foreigners dancing. And at some part, you dun even know it existed in Singapore.

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yellow river also in singapore
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Japanese association
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butterfly lovers
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Britain rebuffed over Hong Kong anniversary

Britain rebuffed over Hong Kong anniversary


By Richard Spencer in Beijing
Published: 12:01AM BST 18 May 2007

Chris Patten and his daughters Alice and Laura at the end of the Hong Kong handover in 1997



The Hong Kong and central Chinese governments have turned down requests for Britain to take part in major celebrations planned to mark the 10th anniversary of the return of the former colony to the mainland.

<!-- BEFORE ACI -->Officials have made clear that there is to be no role for Hong Kong's former rulers in the ceremonies, which include a flag-raising event on the morning of July 1 and the swearing-in of its chief executive, Donald Tsang, for a new five-year term.

The Communist Party leadership in Beijing will be well represented, on the other hand. President Hu Jintao and the prime minister, Wen Jiabao, are both expected to attend.
"We were rebuffed," one diplomat in Beijing told The Daily Telegraph.
"We didn't quite beg," a Foreign Office source added. "But when we asked what representation we would be likely to have, we were basically shuffled from pillar to post."
The source said that after initial inquiries of the Hong Kong government were unsuccessful, there was an "appeal" to the central government in Beijing which also foundered.
Britain's last governor, Chris, now Lord, Patten, has also not been invited to attend any of the ceremonies. He is understood to be planning his own commemorative event in London.
He infuriated the authorities in Beijing during his term of office by introducing greater democracy even as preparations for the handover in 1997 were under way.
Relations between China and Britain have improved since the lows of the 1990s, which were overshadowed both by the debates over the future of Hong Kong and the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989.
Margaret Beckett, the foreign secretary, was yesterday offered the rare chance to speak at the Central Party School in Beijing, the training ground for future Communist leaders.
She used the opportunity to issue an unusually blunt call for political reform in China, saying that in stable societies the people were given the "lever of change" over their leaders.
She warned that the Chinese government was facing the same stresses as those caused by the industrial revolution in Europe. "There were many European countries and governments\u2026who were, in the end, swept away by it," she warned.
She will be going on from Beijing to Hong Kong, where she will make speeches this weekend - rather than at July's formal events - to mark the hand-over's anniversary.
It is understood that Britain's consul-general, Stephen Bradley, will be invited to attend some events, but only as one of many diplomatic representatives in Hong Kong. Mr Bradley is also organising his own commemorative events, but they are well away from the anniversary date as there were no venues available to stage them.
The British Museum will be putting on an exhibition starting in September, while the Consulate will be publishing a commemorative book.
Sources in Hong Kong also highlighted the fact that the celebrations will be on July 1, the day China took control, rather than June 30 when the Union flag came down.
"Everyone is talking about it being the anniversary of the handover, but it's the anniversary of being restored to China," one official said.
"This is Hong Kong and its master or mistress celebrating that they are back together."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1551973/Britain-rebuffed-over-Hong-Kong-anniversary.html