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...Credit Obin's multicultural childhood for her ability to design across borders. Of Chinese-Indonesian ethnicity, she grew up in Hong Kong and first became aware of clothing and style through watching laborers on the Wanchai docks in their baggy cotton pants, or the British businessmen in summer suits. "Hong Kong is a visual feast and I think I took a lot of that back to Indonesia," she explains...
...money from the fund - relatives said they would sell their homes to pay the McCanns' legal bills. So Virgin Group head Richard Branson stepped in, announcing that he would donate $200,000 to "kick-start a legal fund" for the McCanns, says his spokeswoman, Jackie McQuillan. "If other businessmen and women also decide to donate something, all the better...
...Iran, so as not to run afoul of U.S. banking regulations. Though European allies have been reluctant to accede to Washington's demands for sanctions, the limited measures adopted thus far have, nonetheless, made a dent in the Iranian economy, affecting both imports and domestic manufacturing, according to Iranian businessmen and analysts...
...giving them a public holiday. It's the biggest event the country has held since the 2000 Olympic Games, involving 20 presidents and prime ministers (plus Hong Kong's Chief Executive), the heads of the World Bank and the World Trade Organization, 4,500 officials, support staff and businessmen, 4,000 police and troops, hundreds of media people, and a throng of protesters...
...Vientiane now gleam with Chinese-built roads, buildings and other infrastructure. The torrent of investment will likely grow even greater next year when Chinese construction workers finish building a 1,100-mile (1,800-km) Yunnan-Bangkok highway that parallels a section of the Mekong. "Chinese are natural businessmen," says Liu Jingchun, a Chinese boat captain who transports goods between Yunnan and northern Thailand. "For so many years, we shut ourselves off from doing business. Now that we're allowed to trade again, it's like a giant floodgate has opened...