LEVEL 1 - 1 OF 2 STORIES Copyright 1997 The Straits Times Press Limited The Straits Times (Singapore) July 2, 1997 SECTION: Pg. 11 LENGTH: 614 words HEADLINE: Parades, protests in US BYLINE: Lee Siew Hua, US Correspondent BODY: HONGKONG: A NEW ERA Chinese Americans celebrate as Taiwanese Americans stage rally WASHINGTON -Chinese in major North American cities watched and celebrated on Monday as China took back Hongkong from Britain. The Straits Times (Singapore), July 2, 1997 Chinatown revellers in New York welcomed the midnight return of the territory with a procession of floats and a parade. Chinese-Americans in the city will stage another major celebration on Sunday on Broadway. One Hongkong immigrant in New York marked the changeover more quietly. Mr Cornel Chan, a former entertainer who moved here in 1972, said he would watch a videotape of the ceremonies at home. A director at the Brooklyn Chinese-American Association, he said in a telephone interview: "The most important thing is that I feel happy that our land, our property, has come back. But I am a little worried about the future of Hongkong." The Hongkong Economic and Trade Office in Washington organised a reception and live screening of the handover ceremonies at the plush Stouffer Mayflower hotel. The Straits Times (Singapore), July 2, 1997 Administration officials, diplomats, Asian specialists, students and journalists were among the more than 1,000 guests present who joined in a toast to Hongkong. Guests said they felt the sense of historic occasion despite the distance. Mr Edward Chow, a senior US official whose grandfather migrated from China's Guangdong province, told The Straits Times: "It's exciting to see the transition, and wonderful that it is so peaceful. I wish the people of Hongkong nothing but great success." Many Americans had been expressing a sense of reserve or foreboding in the run-up to July 1, but he was more circumspect. He said: "This is a time to take all challenges and opportunities that are present, and go forward." Many Asian specialists from US think-tanks were also celebrating -- in Hongkong itself -as calls to several institutes showed. Among them were Dr Michel Oksenberg, a senior research fellow at the Asia/Pacific Research Centre of Stanford University. The Straits Times (Singapore), July 2, 1997 Not all were upbeat, though. Chinese dissident Lian Shengde, a democracy leader at Tiananmen Square in 1989, staged a protest at the Chinese Embassy in Washington. Over the weekend, about 200 pro-independence Taiwanese-Americans from Washington, Baltimore and Atlanta also held a "Say No To China" rally in front of the embassy. GRAPHIC: Two revellers at the celebratory march through New York's Chinatown on Monday evening. -AFP picture. LANGUAGE: ENGLISH LOAD-DATE: July 3, 1997 LEVEL 1 - 2 OF 2 STORIES Copyright 1989 Reuters The Reuter Library Report June 2, 1989, Friday, PM cycle LENGTH: 679 words HEADLINE: RIFTS, FACTIONS, PARANOIA HIT CHINA'S STUDENT MOVEMENT DATELINE: PEKING, June 2 BODY: As China's communist overlords jockey for power, the student democracy movement that set them at each other's throats has also become riven with rival factions. Paranoia is stealing over central Peking's Tiananmen Square, occupied since May 13 by students clamouring for democracy, freedom and overthrow of government leaders they call despotic. "He has turned against the movement. He has been sent by the police to split us up," said a student spokesman talking about a former leader of the LEVEL 1 - GROUP 1 - 1 OF 5 NEWS & ANALYSIS Copyright 1997 The New York Times Company The New York Times July 7, 1997, Monday, Late Edition - Final SECTION: Section B; Page 3; Column 2; Metropolitan Desk LENGTH: 445 words HEADLINE: A Parade Brings Pride and Protest BYLINE: By FRANK BRUNI BODY: In a procession that was short on visual flourishes but long on ethnic pride, thousands of Chinese-Americans marched through the heart of Manhattan yesterday to celebrate the return of Hong Kong last week to Chinese rule. Their numbers -- which one senior police officer estimated at 10,000 -- suggested both the degree to which many recent Chinese immigrants feel a close affinity to events in China and their measure of joy in reclaiming Hong Kong. The New York Times, July 7, 1997 "Chinese people felt humiliated about Hong Kong," said King Liu, president of the Chinese Student Association at City College. He said the long British rule of Hong Kong was an international insult, and its end was both a restoration of justice and a vote of confidence in a Chinese Government that is more trustworthy than in the past. That sentiment was not shared by all Chinese-Americans, some of whom joined a group of about 100 protesters on a traffic island in Times Square, two blocks north of the parade's terminus at West 41st Street and Seventh Avenue. The protesters complained of lingering human-rights abuses in China, cried out for democratic reforms and said that the return of Hong Kong to Chinese rule simply meant that more people would come under the control of a corrupt, tyrannical system. "Six million more people are under bloody Communist rule," said Shengde Lian, an alumnus of the student protests that were violently quashed in Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989. Ni Yuxian, the former dissident who is now chairman of an organization called Party for Freedom and Democracy in China, yelled hoarsely at the parade through the makeshift megaphone of a rolled poster. The New York Times, July 7, 1997 "We want to show Americans that not all Chinese are happy that Hong Kong is back to China," he said. Most of the marchers yesterday said they believed that the Chinese Government would honor its pledges to let Hong Kong operate as an autonomous zone within China and to leave Hong Kong's free-market system and way of life largely unaltered. Most participants belonged to trade associations, student groups or civic organizations. A few groups came from as far away as Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. The marchers began at West 58th Street and Broadway and proceeded south. There were more than a dozen floats and a few marching bands, but the two-hour procession was dominated by everyday people in everyday dress. Some marchers carried bouquets of freshly cut flowers, while others waved the red Chinese flag. But the predominant visual motif, sewn onto white caps and printed on white T-shirts, was a red flower with five spiraling, pinwheel-like petals that is the symbol of the new Hong Kong. The New York Times, July 7, 1997 GRAPHIC: Photos: Thousands of Chinese-Americans marched in a parade yesterday celebrating the return of Hong Kong to China. David Peng, 9, watched from the side, draped over a barricade and wearing a souvenir cap. Demonstrators using makeshift megaphones shout out their opposition to the parade's theme, citing civil rights abuses by China. (Photographs by Frances Roberts for The New York Times) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH LOAD-DATE: July 7, 1997 LEVEL 1 - GROUP 1 - 2 OF 5 NEWS & ANALYSIS Copyright 1997 FT Asia Intelligence Wire All Rights Reserved Copyright 1997 SINGAPORE STRAITS TIMES July 2, 1997 SECTION: News LENGTH: 400 words HEADLINE: Parades, protests in US Pages 1, 4 to 11 & 36 BYLINE: Lee Siew Hua, US Correspondent BODY: HONGKONG: A NEW ERA Chinese Americans celebrate as Taiwanese Americans stage rally WASHINGTON -Chinese in major North American cities watched and celebrated on Monday as China took back Hongkong from Britain.