They swam to Hong Kong in waters that promised death to escape a worse fate
It was about midnight when Poon Yuen-ching and her fiance, Lo Ping-sum, stood at the edge of Deep Bay. Some 5km away, across the cold waters, the prospect of a married life in the British colony of Hong Kong awaited, free from the poverty and political turmoil wrought by China's Cultural Revolution. The 22-year-old students had trekked nine days to...