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Thirty years after his first visit there, Alan Whicker returns to Hong Kong and looks at its society and its political and economic structure.
Alan Whicker tours the waterfront on a craft owned by a Chinese man who reads The Times and smokes cigars, meets a businessman who serves caviar with a pearl shovel, and a woman who is a telecommunications tycoon who visits soothsayers.
Alan Whicker looks at the treatment of the widows of the men killed when defending the colony in 1941, to a police chief about how illegal immigrants are treated on both sides of the border, and the immensely wealthy Kadoorie family.
Alan Whicker looks at drugs, crime and capital punishment in Hong Kong, and meets Christian missionary Jackie Pullinger who rescues drug addicts in the Walled City.
Alan Whicker looks into the superstitions and belief in fortune tellers of many Hong Kong citizens.
Alan Whicker examines Hong Kong's organised crime syndicate, The Triads, and meets a lawyer who used to prosecute them, a priest who befriended them, and a Traid "enforcer" who is now on the run from them.
Alan Whicker talks to some of the working, professional women of Hong Kong, both Chinese and European, about their work, roles and the attitudes towards them.
Alan Whicker talks to some of the many expatriates who live and work in Hong Kong.
