Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambodia (pop. over 4,000,000) is a country of Buddhists lying directly in the path of Communist expansion in Southeast Asia. During the Indo-China war, three battalions of Vietminh Communist troops entered Cambodia, and Red China claimed that a "resistance" government was in being. But after last year's general election in which Norodom, stepping down from the throne to lead his own political party, won all 91 seats of the National Assembly, the Communists reversed their tactic. With soft words, Communist Leader Ho Chi Minh suggested a diplomatic exchange with Norodom. Nothing doing, replied Norodom. "Your...
...British Crown Colony of Hong Kong is a packed and pulsating place with a rich but brief past in a singularly unpredictable life expectancy. It is the last true colony of size and importance in all Asia, and it perches in incongruous complacency on the coast of Communist China like a fat canary on the shoulder of a hungry tomcat...
...pieces, the wail of radios tuned to Chinese opera, the brays of hawkers and cries of countless babies, all insist on its Chineseness-but the eye is reminded, by the flap of the Union Jack and the crisp gesture of a traffic cop, that here, as nowhere else in Asia, British "law and order" yet prevail...
...hollowed-tree coffins, ancient cures compounded of dried sea horses, centipedes, lizards and snakes. Yet more than 1,500 workshops and factories, many of them new and equipped with modern Western machinery, pour forth a cascade of flashlights, rubber shoes, bicycles and cheap cottons for the marketplaces of Southeast Asia. The colony consists of 391 sq. mi.; most of it-a 356-sq.-mi. mainland area called the New Territories-is leased from China until 1997. But the overwhelming mass of people live on Manhattan-sized Hong Kong Island and the small Kowloon peninsula...
...save the cash for a future flight. But increasingly, the decision has been to take the risk. New office buildings, new houses rise. As a depository for the wealth of insecure rich men, Hong Kong ranks high-a steady flow of funds comes in from all over Asia for investment (in housing, factories, public utilities) and safekeeping...