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...trading firms quickly devised a new, cross-border manufacturing system. With poor technology and training, Chinese workers could complete basic product assembly, but not the more complicated parts of a manufacturing process. So traders like the Fungs kept functions such as quality control and packaging in Hong Kong while outsourcing the assembly to factories in China. The next step came as the spread of communications technologies, improved transportation networks and freer international trade enabled trading companies to begin sourcing supplies and products from Korea, Indonesia, India?wherever they could get the best price and quality. Victor Fung, Li & Fung...
...study in Norway for two years. “My time in Norway was incredibly important to me,” he said. Although it was “a tragic time politically in Zimbabwe,” he said he was grateful to spend two years at Red Cross Nordic United World College and see the world’s challenges from an international perspective. In fall 2002, he enrolled at Harvard, where his experiences in Zimbabwe and Norway led him to choose Social Studies as his concentration. In his sophomore summer, Robinson taught English to Tibetan refugee children...
...officials are skeptical about a recent agreement between Pakistan's government and local tribes in North Waziristan, under which Pakistani troops withdrew from the area on the understanding that the tribes would police all cross-border incursions into Afghanistan. The number of cross-border attacks from the area since the agreement is double the figure for the same period a year ago, according to U.S. military spokesman Colonel Tom Collins, addressing reporters traveling with Gates. "We are seeing evidence that the enemy is taking advantage of that agreement to launch attacks into Afghanistan...
...Iranian "meddling" in Iraq, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice indicated that the President had signed an order authorizing a broad military campaign against Iranian networks operating inside Iraq. In an interview with TIME, Rice even said that she could not rule out the possibility that U.S. troops might cross the Iraq border into Iran in pursuit of Iranians suspected of moving weapons to Iraqi militias. > U.S. officials stress that the purpose here is simply protecting U.S. troops, but a number have reportedly said the purpose is to counter Iranian efforts to thwart the U.S. in Iraq - and, according...
...would not rule out the possibility that U.S. troops might cross the Iraq border into Iran in pursuit of Iranians suspected of moving weapons to Iraqi militias. But she said she trusts the expertise of Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, who believes that the Iranian arms networks can be broken up with intelligence and interdiction inside Iraq...