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Still, when rich Chinese hire a security detail, protection isn't always their primary concern. Cui Fengxian, a Beijing lawyer, founded Beijing Capital Bodyguard Security Consultants, which in 2002 was the first firm of its kind to receive government approval to do business, because he believed China lacked adequate means...
Li Jianguo remembers the day he learned what his wealth might cost him. The multimillionaire owner of a Chinese herbal-medicine company, Li was living in Hainan in the early 1990s when a kidnapper snatched his friend's young son from school and demanded $400,000 in ransom. Police rescued...
The anxieties of Li and his thick-bankbooked brethren are spawning a lucrative boom in China's private-security business. The body-guarding profession was officially abolished along with other "feudal" trades after the Communists came to power in 1949, and baobiao, the Chinese word for bodyguard, retains a tinge...
In Asia these days, the U.S. needs all the help it can get. Bush will leave Japan for the annual APEC summit in Pusan, South Korea. There, though his hosts will doubtless make the ritual declarations about the solidity of their own alliance with the U.S., it is an open...
DIED. KOCHERIL RAMAN NARAYANAN, 85, diplomat who climbed from the depths of India's caste system to become President; in New Delhi. Born into a poor Dalit (once called "untouchable") family, Narayanan attended college in India and later earned a degree from the London School of Economics. In the foreign...