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...survey done in 2001 showed that 20% of refugees polled were unemployed and nearly 32% had only temporary work. "The gap between South and North Korean standards is too wide," says refugee Chung Ju Hwa. "The government should assume we are starting from zero...
...offering 200 kinds of tea (free!). No, for big spenders accustomed to the dingy, smoke-choked quarters of China's only legal gaming district, the highest praise for the first American-run casino goes to its ventilation system. "It doesn't feel stuffy," marvels local resident Tong Tin-Chung, "so you won't get dizzy." And the Sands is offering more than clean air--there are sequined showgirls, megaplex-size TVs and a 300-ft.-long buffet--all designed to reel in mainlanders like Li Duoshan, a businessman from nearby Zhuhai, who once dropped a six-figure...
...offering 200 kinds of tea (free!). No, for big spenders accustomed to the dingy, smoke-choked quarters of China's only legal gaming district, the highest praise for the first American-run casino goes to its ventilation system. "It doesn't feel stuffy," marvels local resident Tong Tin-Chung, "so you won't get dizzy." The Sands offers more than clean air - there are sequined showgirls, megaplex-size TVs and a 90-m-long buffet, all designed to reel in mainlanders like Li Duoshan, a businessman from nearby Zhuhai, who once dropped a six-figure sum in one of Macau...
...Henan province Chung to, founder and director of the nonprofit Chi Heng Foundation in Hong Kong, is one of the few outsiders who has penetrated the state-imposed isolation of the so-called AIDS villages in central China. He is all too familiar with the plight of small children orphaned by the disease. On a recent visit to a village in Henan, he watched an 8-year-old boy taking his father out for a walk. The boy was pushing his father along in a creaky wooden cart. The man was dying of AIDS and had been confined...
...Iraq, praised Roh's tough-guy stance, relieved that for once he hadn't played to the anti-American sentiment of his young, left-leaning voter base. Even the conservative Chosun Ilbo daily, usually one of his harshest critics, praised Roh's "firm will." Says Lee Chung Hee, an expert on Korean politics at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul: "Roh showed he can be a quick and decisive leader even at the cost of losing support in the street...