Repeated interview requests with Shek were ignored and attempts to speak with the Transport and Housing Department were declined.

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In 1943, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss the war against Japan.

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To reach Kat O, up near the border of the Chinese mainland, you need to take a taxi to the pier at Wong Shek, about an hour's journey from Hong Kong.

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Tai O Heritage Hotel, Shek Tsai Po St.

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