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...private sector. South Korea has a unique opportunity to pump up North Korea's economy. Despite years of animosity, it is probably in the South's interest to facilitate the North's economic growth. "If North Korea collapses and forces premature unification, both sides would be completely ruined," says Dong Yong Seung, an economist who concentrates on North Korean issues for Samsung's Economic Research Institute. "Seoul can't support both economies...
Korea's short-track speed-skating champion Kim Dong Sung will be celebrating his 22nd birthday on the ice during the Games. It's a fitting site. Kim, who won gold at the Nagano Olympics (plus a silver in the 5,000-m relay as a spare), has hardly left the rink since he took up skating at the age of eight, because it looked "like...
...enhancing the interest of Richard Li, scion of the super-rich Li family, because Richard drew up the plan. Even critics acknowledge, however, that diversification is a good idea. "Hong Kong needs more than one pillar industry to sustain its economic glory, and infotech is a new one," says Dong Tao, a senior China analyst for the Credit Suisse First Boston bank. But Shanghai too is trying to seize the commanding heights of the information age: each year the city produces 4,000 computer-science graduates to supply the demand of the growing Internet market...
...Shanghai's GDP will surpass that of Hong Kong," says Yao Xitang, president of a prestigious research institute in Shanghai. Dong Tao predicts that six years from now, Shanghai is likely to have the biggest stock market in Asia outside Japan...
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC Ding dong the ethnic cleanser's gone. Slav brothers wary of asylum. You're no Idi Amin...