香港失业率升至历史高位, 香港近五十萬參加反對23條立法大遊行

香港特区政府宣布过去三个月最新的失业率数字为8.3%，显示香港有28万7千人多失业人口﹐意味着过去三个月在严重急性呼吸系统综合症（SARS）的疫情笼罩下﹐有1万3千多港人加入失业大军。同时﹐就业不足的人数也较前次公布的数字上升0.6%，达到3.8%。 More

香港四十多個團體發起的反對基本法第二十三條立法「七．一」大遊行，有近五十萬市民參加，這是香港自一九八九年「六．四」事件以來最大規模的遊行，完全出乎主辦團體意料。 More

Hong Kong's Summer of Discontent
Spread of Unrest Feared by Beijing

By Philip P. Pan, Washington Post, Tuesday, July 15, 2003

HONG KONG -- Six years after China celebrated the return of Hong Kong to the motherland, a barbed-wire fence still snakes along portions of the river that separates this city from the rest of the country, and immigration officers remain posted on both sides of the border. More