HONG KONG: Member of the Wedding

After 40 years of working in New York restaurants, Wat Kam-san, 60, went back in January to the China he had left as a teenager. Bachelor Wat was in for a jolt. Although he had dutifully sent money to the home folks for 40 years, he had overlooked someone. The someone: his wife.

Summoned into Hong Kong's magistracy court, Wat protested that he had never seen or heard of the woman, Chan Kam, 53, who was suing him for maintenance and claiming they had been married for 26 years. The woman admitted that...

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