MONDAY HANG Seng wobbles when a senior Politburo aide reveals paramount leader Deng Xiaoping has taken to sitting on his daughter's knee during policy meetings and whenever she drinks, he stops speaking. Index drops 300 points, but recovers when Li Peng appears on state television wearing a colourful tie.
Glamour boys held at Kai Tak for concealing rhino horns in their diamante G-strings.
TUESDAY MERCHANT banker James 'Jumbo' Grunt, 42, out jogging, overshoots Bowen Road, slides in pool of sweat and forces closure of popular route for six hours. Attempts to remove him fail. Sportswear makers demand their brand names are whited out.
WEDNESDAY TWO deep cover anti-narcotics officers are commended after they arrest each other in Lamma's notorious Corner Bar for offering to sell one another drugs. A hippie woman and a dog named Rizla are seized. Police spokesman describes the $25 million, six-monthoperation as a 'rollicking success'.
US analysts, block-booking the Grand Hyatt for the fourth week running, cast serious doubts on the value of Chinese stocks being floated on JJ's dance floor. 'These girls seriously overrate themselves,' says one, who had invested in multiple expensive cocktails and several hours of negotiations and still failed to arrange a merger. 'In the long term their attitude could do with a 50 to 70 per cent correction.' But, he said, with so many US analysts desperate to stimulate their private sector, 'right now theplace is a bull market'.
THURSDAY ANTI-NARCOTICS police release hippie woman after she remembers she is, in fact, Sergeant Bob Narrow, a deep-deep undercover operative planted on Lamma in the mid-1970s. The dog is imprisoned for life.
