He attacked Beijing in the editorials of the highbrow Ming Pao Daily News, which he founded in 1959, while at the same time entertaining his readers with daily instalments of his martial-arts epics.

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He marched off to see legislator Li Wah-ming, who organized a clandestine investigation into the sewage workers' nocturnal habits.

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While working as a barber, he befriended a skinny local teen-ager named Wong Kam-ming.

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He will now play for the former team of Chinese center, Yao Ming.

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If Lee winds up in Tokyo he would most likely be given a title more elaborate than that of the current director, Chuang Ming-yao.

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Indeed Hong Kong's Ming Pao Daily News and Sing Tao Daily have been highlighting the premier's comment on Chongqing, where he urged local authorities to reflect seriously on the Wang Lijun incident and draw lessons from the case - presumably written before news of his removal.

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