The Cleaner: The True Story of One of the World's Most Successful Money Launderers
by Bruce Aitken · 2 Mar 2017
and out of sleep when I heard the Pan Am stewardess on the intercom: “Fasten your seat belts. We are on our final approach to Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong.” I was so happy to be back in Hong Kong, with a reservation at the Hong Kong Hilton for the night; I
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forty-eight-page U.S. passports a year, with additional pages put in so that when I opened it, they fell out like an accordion. Kai Tak Airport was like a second home. Sometimes the trips were “same day” back and forth, and sometimes I was gone a week or more. It occurred
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lovely white-haired granny like Helen. The weekend came and went. Our Compass Travel driver “KK,” using our authentic black London taxi, collected Helen from Kai Tak Airport on Monday morning, and brought her to the office. She could not thank Brink enough for the great weekend retreat. She had befriended a very
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, however, wouldn’t be coming until the next day. Oh, shit! I felt sick for the next twenty-four hours until I was back at Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong, praying as I went to collect the luggage. It had arrived, and I had learned a very big lesson. Where the hell
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knew that was bullshit. I arrived in Hong Kong, having been away for well over a month, and within twenty-four hours, I was at Kai Tak Airport, boarding the red-eye Qantas flight for another deal waiting in Sydney. I decided I may as well work this business on my own. One
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my plans with him over dinner as we enjoyed a pleasant evening on a yacht moored beside Sai Kung. Pan Am was still flying into Kai Tak Airport in those days, and the owner of the yacht, as it happened, was a Pan Am captain by the name of Steve Meuris. Steve and
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first place. This illegal money moving business was taking a serious toll on my brain and on my spirit. Waiting at the luggage caroselursel at Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong ten hours later, I shuttered to think that I almost did not make it, and envisioned my ‘fully loaded with cash”, Old
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Hong Kong. About twenty hours later, I found myself once again standing in that most familiar place, staring down at the luggage conveyor belt at Kai Tak Airport, waiting for the appearance of my friend, Old Faithful. Get stuffed! What was to happen over the next couple of years during Robert’s detention
Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy
by Shibani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin · 7 Nov 2023 · 348pp · 110,533 words
with a more permanent effect than a life-insurance policy. In August 1990, Reverend Chu said goodbye to his wife, Samuel, and Daniel at the Kai Tak International Airport. He was stoic. Samuel carried a Walkman in his hands, loaded with a cassette tape of his favorite singer, Leslie Cheung. He had been
Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
by Simon Winchester · 31 Dec 1985 · 382pp · 127,510 words
has never accepted colonial rule—it is a teeming, dirty little slum, unpoliced, unorganised, unfriendly and dangerous. There was never any town planning, though the Kai Tak airport authorities insisted recently that some buildings be lowered to an appropriate height, and so police moved in and obligingly lopped some storeys off. There has
The River at the Centre of the World
by Simon Winchester · 1 Jan 1996 · 498pp · 153,927 words
fifty pounds. I hoisted it onto my back, whistled down a taxi to Kennedy, and twenty hours later was through customs at Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport. Two days later still, having made a series of complicated arrangements by telephone and having received a somewhat dubious series of assurances, having a new
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in Wuhan there is much, much more. The city has been put on a quick and easy non-stop flight route from Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport, and to the southern businessmen who fly in each day, Wuhan is now their most proximate example of the real China, the closest big city
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(JOG) sheets, 30–31, 409 Journey to a War (Isherwood), 215 Judy's Place, 89 Junks and Sampans of the Yangtze, The (Worcester), 409–10 Kai Tak Airport, 33, 216 Kaixian county, 245 Kallen, Christine, 412 Kangding, 373, 377, 379–81, 383 Kanxi, Emperor, 15 Karaoke, 78, 79, 94, 192 Kashgar, 216 Kathmandu
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
by Simon Winchester · 7 May 2018 · 449pp · 129,511 words
a Cathay Pacific 747 passenger aircraft nonstop to Hong Kong. It was in one small and curious way a memorable flight. For, back then, when Kai Tak Airport was the only commercial airfield in the then–British colony, most inbound flights had to make an alarming last-minute course change in order to
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Hopkins University: Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) at, 259–62 Space Telescope Science Institute at, 234, 251 Johnson, Claude “CJ,” 148–50, 151 Jones, Alexander, 27 Kai Tak Airport (Hong Kong), 195–96 kelvin, definition of, 346 Kiev, author photographed with Rolls-Royce outside city gates of, 133–34 Kilby, Jack, 288n kilogram, 336
The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir
by Karen Cheung · 15 Feb 2022 · 297pp · 96,945 words
we’re finally at the other end. Across Hong Kong, an anxious mood has punctured the smog. Near my grandmother’s flat is the old Kai Tak Airport, which would be decommissioned in a year’s time. We can see airplanes from my grandmother’s window, taking Hong Kongers far away from here
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
by Quinn Slobodian · 4 Apr 2023 · 360pp · 107,124 words
from the penthouse of Jardine House. Town & Country called Hong Kong “this moment’s most dazzling boom town.”50 Visitors had a memorable arrival at Kai Tak Airport, a strip of reclaimed land that jutted out from the densely populated Kowloon Peninsula—the Brooklyn to Hong Kong Island’s Manhattan. As their stomachs
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Jerome John II, Prince John Randolph Club Johnson, Boris Johnson, Paul “joint fantasy” joint stock corporations Joseph, Keith Jurong, Singapore justice, privatization of Kaczynski, Theodore Kai Tak Airport Kansas Kaohsiung, Taiwan KBR Kendall, Frances Kenya Keynesian economics Khalili, Laleh killer app King, Martin Luther Jr. kinship Klein, Naomi Kleindienst, Josef Knowledge City, Guangzhou
Norman Foster: A Life in Architecture
by Deyan Sudjic · 1 Sep 2010
on an international scale. And it was his first big win in an international competition. Negotiating the notorious final approach into the now long-gone Kai Tak Airport in August 1979, Foster flew into Hong Kong with Spencer de Grey and Wendy Foster for the competition briefing session from the bank. They were
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serve to reshape a firm’s understanding of architectural practice back in Britain. When Hong Kong decided on the closure of the territory’s original airport at Kai Tak, and its replacement through the construction of an entirely new one, with runways built on land reclaimed from the sea, connected to the city
Cities in the Sky: The Quest to Build the World's Tallest Skyscrapers
by Jason M. Barr · 13 May 2024 · 292pp · 107,998 words
is the observatory and above that is a Ritz-Carlton hotel. In 1989, the Hong Kong government decided to shut down the old and congested Kai Tak Airport in East Kowloon, where jets flew so close to apartment buildings that residents could watch them land from their kitchen windows. In its place, the
How to Survive a Pandemic
by Michael Greger, M.D., FACLM · 1,072pp · 237,186 words
to model the spread of the 1997 Hong Kong outbreak (had it gone pandemic), scientists calculated how many travelers had passed through Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Airport. During the two-month outbreak in Hong Kong in 1997, more than four million people left that one airport.785 Viruses now travel at jet
Distrust That Particular Flavor
by William Gibson · 3 Jan 2012 · 153pp · 45,871 words
The Asian Financial Crisis 1995–98: Birth of the Age of Debt
by Russell Napier · 19 Jul 2021 · 511pp · 151,359 words
Wavewalker
by Suzanne Heywood · 12 Apr 2023 · 436pp · 124,451 words
Skyfaring: A Journey With a Pilot
by Mark Vanhoenacker · 1 Jun 2015 · 319pp · 105,949 words