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  2. Bat lau dung laai - Wikipedia

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    Whitehead Refugee Camp, HK disused in 2008 The old RAF headquarters on Kwun Tong Road, Kai Tak, which housed boat people until 1997. Bat lau dung laai (Chinese: 不漏洞拉 or 北漏洞拉 [1]; Jyutping: bat1 lau6 dung6 laai1) is a Hong Kong Cantonese corruption of the Vietnamese phrase bắt đầu từ nay, meaning "from now on" (bắt đầu = begin, start; từ = "from", nay = "now ...

  3. Guangzhou Television Cantonese controversy - Wikipedia

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    Despite some decline in Cantonese usage in Guangdong province, its survival is still doing better than other Chinese dialects due to the local cultural prestige, pride, popularity, and especially with the wide availability and popularity of Cantonese entertainment and media from both Guangzhou and especially from Hong Kong, which is maintaining ...

  4. Guo Wengui - Wikipedia

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    Guo Wengui (Chinese: 郭文贵; born May 10, 1970—self claim [3] or October 5, 1968 [4]), also known under the Cantonese name Ho Wan Kwok (郭浩云), [5] Miles Guo, and Miles Kwok, [6] is a self-exiled Chinese billionaire businessman, political activist and convicted fraudster, who controls Beijing Zenith Holdings (via proxies Li Lin and Jiang Yuehua) [7] and other assets.

  5. Triad (organized crime) - Wikipedia

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    A triad (traditional Chinese: 三合會; simplified Chinese: 三合会; Jyutping: saam1 hap6 wui6; Cantonese Yale: sāam hahp wúi; pinyin: sān hé huì) is a Chinese transnational organized crime syndicate based in Greater China with outposts in various countries having significant overseas Chinese populations.

  6. After year of big corruption crackdown, China promises more ...

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    By Ryan Woo. BEIJING (Reuters) - One day before a key meeting of China's anti-graft watchdog, the state broadcaster aired a programme on how grassroots corruption is being crushed, dispelling any ...

  7. Bo Xilai - Wikipedia

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    Bo's anti-corruption campaign, in particular, earned him a reputation for heavy-handedness and authoritarian methods in crime and punishment. [ 148 ] [ 149 ] Bo's policies put him in opposition to the more liberal and reform-oriented faction, particularly Premier Wen Jiabao and Guangdong party secretary Wang Yang , who favored the strengthening ...

  8. The quest to save Cantonese in a world dominated by Mandarin

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    The Cantonese they speak is substantially different from the Hong Kong version considered standard. In China, people in many regions learn Mandarin in school while speaking another dialect at home.

  9. Anti-corruption campaign under Xi Jinping - Wikipedia

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    Several provinces have faced the brunt of the anti-corruption campaign: Guangdong, Shanxi, Sichuan, and Jiangsu. In addition to tackling corruption, the campaign has also had the effect of reducing regional factionalism and dissecting entrenched patron-client networks that have flourished since the beginning of economic reforms in the 1980s.