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...well known companies. "For the last year," says a western banker in Hong Kong, "the word has definitely gone out that solid, state-run companies already trading in Hong Kong should consider IPOs on the mainland." If, in the process, that diverted some savings that was otherwise serving to drive up the price apartments in Shanghai - and it definitely did - that was fine...
Though administrators have yet to establish a dollar figure goal for the proposed campaign, they expect it to exceed the last capital drive, which raised $2.6 billion when it ended in 1999. A similar seven-year campaign launched this year would raise close to $4.4 billion, assuming a higher-education inflation rate of 3.5 percent...
Another HDAG member who has been instrumental in the petition drive, Peter N. Ganong '09, wrote in an e-mail that he was also concerned that the CCSR seemed to give HDAG's proposal second billing...
...this island nation harbors a small, unique and brutal street-gang culture that has defied authorities for more than 30 years and now appears to be nurturing a new, more violent mutation. Last month, the country's older ethnic gangs were involved in a series of tit-for-tat drive-by shootings that left a toddler dead; meanwhile the country's juvenile gangs have emerged as a new force in crime, linked to eight killings and many hundreds of other violent crimes in the past two years. Sully Paea is a youth worker who tries to reform young gang members...
...gangs set a new low in their violent history when tit-for-tat drive-by shootings between the Mongrel Mob and Black Power claimed the life of a toddler in Wanganui, about 330 km south of Auckland. Jhia Te Tua, 2, was asleep on a couch in her Black Power father's home when a bullet was fired into the house, killing her instantly. Police have charged 12 men over her murder and arrested several more in connection with the ongoing violence between the local chapters...