On Nov. 16 in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore PM Goh Chok Tong and Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa agreed to find ways to settle the dispute.

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Lai Kam-tong at the Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management says that accountants' salaries are rising by 14% a year.

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Those still making their way to Rome included: Egyptian Patriarch Antonios Naguib, and Cardinals Karl Lehmann of Germany, Jean-Baptiste Pham of Vietnam, Kazimierz Nycz of Poland and John Tong Hon of Hong Kong, the Vatican said.

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Last March Terry Botwick, a programming executive at CBS, learned that veteran Hong Kong action director Stanley Tong (Supercop) was interested in developing a martial-arts show for television.

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So Tong and his partners suggested Hung, who, as another huge Hong Kong star, was a logical substitute.

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