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  • Re: (old_version.exe... IBM World Trade Asia Corp & Hong Kong 1997

    From Mr. Man-wai Chang@3:633/10 to All on Fri Jun 19 18:43:27 2026
    On 6/19/2026 5:47 PM, Daniel70 wrote:
    On 19/06/2026 3:04 am, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

    I had to Google that Date.

    How quickly we forget .... or is it just that sooooo many 'BAD' things
    are happening that we forget sooo quickly??
    And don't forget about July 1st 1997.

    I actually was involved in moving IBM's office, from Central to
    Admiralty, when it expanded its Hong Kong HQ.

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  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@3:633/10 to All on Sat Jun 20 23:01:28 2026
    On 6/20/2026 7:47 PM, Daniel70 wrote:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handover_of_Hong_Kong

    I'm sure I was in Hong Kong in April, 1996, just before the Handover
    .... No, come to think of it IT WAS April, 1997 cause I had to get a new
    (10 year) Passport because the one I got in Sept 1987 (to attend my
    Sisters Wedding in Scotland) might not have been acceptable to HK Staff
    nine and a half years later to get into HK!! ;-P
    Someone stole my Hong Kong Certificate of Identity (kind of like a
    passport) and old version of HKID card before 1997. I dunno whether it's related to 1997, or maybe someone want to use them to forge identities
    for spy business or terriost attack.

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