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Did China invent golf? 'It kinna' be,' Scots say - Print Version - International Herald Tribune: "Did China invent golf? 'It kinna' be,' Scots say
By Patrick L. Smith International Herald Tribune
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2006
HONG KONG Famously, they gave the world gunpowder.

They also came up with the wheelbarrow, the umbrella, printing and paper, phosphorescent paint and something called land sailing. Nowadays, of course, they give us practically everything in great, cheap quantities.

But golf? Did the Chinese invent golf and export it westward centuries before any Scottish shepherd ever thought of making a game out of his forlorn fate?

Say something quickly in a lilting brogue. 'It kinna' be,' for instance.

That is, roughly speaking, the Scottish position on the matter: It cannot be.

But the Chinese have a compelling argument that it was they, indeed, who first played the game, and a museum in Hong Kong now plans to display the evidence in an exhibition that is to open in a few weeks' time.

You have to see this stuff to believe it. Then you have to be careful what you say, because just who gave the world golf is a matter as tricky as any fairway at St. Andrews, the Scottish town in the Kingdom of Fife that bills itself as 'the home of golf.'

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BEIJING (AP) - China expects suspected smuggling kingpin Lai Changxing to be deported from Canada within months and is preparing to punish him under Chinese law, a former top legal official was quoted as saying by official media on Saturday.

Lai, whose application for political asylum has been rejected by Canada, could be returned within three to five months once Canadian officials complete deportation procedures, said Zhu Entao, a former assistant to China's minister of public security.

China accuses Lai of heading a syndicate based in the southeastern port of Xiamen that smuggled as much as $10 billion US worth of goods ranging from cigarettes to cooking oil under the protection of corrupt government officials.

'I'm optimistic about the final extradition of Lai,' said Zhu, who was in Beijing to attend the annual meeting of the parliamentary advisory body, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Lai, his wife Tsang Mingna and their three children arrived in Canada in August 1999 after fleeing China by way of Hong Kong.

The family's case is now before Canada's Department of Citizenship and Immigration, which must determine whether Lai is at risk upon return to China. Lai's Cana"

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