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Marks also began consolidating suppliers and clients into industrial parks in China, Hungary and Mexico. Flextronics' park in Sarvar, western Hungary, includes a manufacturer of Styrofoam packaging, a maker of cardboard packaging, a forwarding company and a company specializing in sheet-metal stamping. The new Guadalajara location boasts circuit-board fabricators. And all are connected, on a secure computer network, with design and engineering labs around the world...
Flextronics got its start in Silicon Valley in 1969 as a "board stuffing" operation back in the days when computer circuit boards were soldered and assembled by hand. In 1990, as recession struck the U.S. and much of the world, Flextronics sold off all its U.S. operations and reincorporated in Singapore; from there it operated a few factories in Southeast Asia and southern China. Flextronics grew steadily through the '90s, leveraging its early presence in Malaysia and China into a solid share of the "enclosures" market--doing final assembly for cellular phones, personal computers and printers. But when the Asian...
...factory workers in Hungary are about $2 an hour, versus $15 in neighboring Austria. And wages are even lower in Ukraine, where Flextronics began experimenting with a pilot project early this year. In a corner of what was a dingy Soviet domestic-appliance works in Beregovo, workers now assemble circuit boards for as little as 40[cents] an hour...
...Camp Foster with arcade games and pool tables around a pulsing dance floor; on Saturday nights it's Slum, a three-story hip-hop club on the divey back streets of Naha City. (In the wake of the June 29 incident, the club 3F has fallen off the circuit.) On any of these nights at any of these venues, men invariably outnumber women by ten to one. A girl can't go five minutes without getting hit on?and there are a lot of girls checking their watches...
...laughable. There were some one-off success stories, such as Yasuhiko Okudera, who played in various divisions in Germany from 1977 to '86, and Kazuyoshi Miura, who appeared for Brazil's Santos and Italy's Genoa in the 1990s. But Japan did not even have its own independent professional circuit until 1993 when the J-League was launched. In the past few years, however, the country's football fortunes have been on the rise. In 1998, the national team made it to the World Cup finals for the first time. This year, Japan became Asian Champion and narrowly lost...