It should be possible at Hong Kong to set a deadline of 2010, ... There is an enormous amount at stake... Failure to make progress could even be fatal for the trade round.

We may need a Hong Kong II,

It is not possible to go for full modalities (of a detailed outline) at Hong Kong. But that does not mean we can't achieve anything,

In Hong Kong, 'wonton' means swallowing a cloud.

His colleagues at the Bar called him Filth, but not out of irony. It was because he was considered to be the source of the old joke, Failed In London Try Hong Kong. It was said that he had fled the London Bar, very young, very poor, on a sudden whim just after the War, and had done magnificently well in Hong Kong from the start. Being a modest man, they said, he had called himself a parvenu, a fraud, a carefree spirit.
Filth in fact was no great maker of jokes, was not at all modest about his work and seldom, except in great extremity, went in for whims. He was loved, however, admired, laughed at kindly and still much discussed many years after retirement.

It is not possible to go for full modalities at Hong Kong (where a crucial WTO ministerial meeting is to be held next month). But that does not mean we can't achieve anything,