With it have come kite-fighting and the so-called "kite runners" described by author Khaled Hosseini in his 2003 novel, the WSJ's Don Duncan reports.

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"Quite often you can see a crowd of 20 to 30 black kites fighting for food over the Tseung Kwan O landfill sites," says Ken Ching See-ho, head of the Eco-Education & Resources Centre (ERC).

The thread attached to the kites is coated with a mixture of glue, colour and powdered glass, to make them strong and sharp enough to fight each other. Participants display their kite-flying ...