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...Nevertheless, ports around the globe are under U.S. pressure to tighten lax export controls that allow North Korea to source much of the high-tech machinery and parts it needs to build conventional arms?as well as weapons of mass destruction. Following revelations this year that some Japanese-based companies had exported items to the North that could have been used to build atom bombs, Japan has attempted to curtail some of its trade with the regime. On May 8, for example, Tokyo police raided a trading company called Meishin, which is run by members of Japan's North Korean...
...profit since 1999. Enter Zucker, 40, who knows something about turnarounds. He spent last year as COO of Playboy Enterprises and helped deliver its first profitable quarter in more than four years. At Midway, Zucker plans to focus operations on the company's best brands and genres and expand export sales from about 15% of revenue to the 40% to 45% achieved by its competitors...
...Zhang Baoxiang Serving a life sentence for fabricating $23.3 million in tax rebates as general manager at a state-owned cashmere import-export company. The government fined the firm $58 million
...also a product of the Soviet Union's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan and the jihad declared by much of the Muslim world in response. To fund their campaign against the Russian occupiers, Afghan warlords used Pakistan as a transshipment point for heroin and Karachi as a major point of export. Paid for in part by those narco-dollars were the vast shipments of small arms and Stinger missiles passing the other way through Karachi before being loaded onto trucks bound for Peshawar and eventually camels headed for Afghanistan's interior. Those drugs and the guns left a toxic residue that...
...beat vocal trio led by the young Bob Marley, promoting the band's breakthrough single of 1964, Simmer Down. And in 1969 Marley came through Upsetter's doors to record classic cuts such as Small Axe and Duppy Conqueror. Although Marley was to become reggae's greatest export, back then the Wailers weren't Jamaica's only stars. "They weren't even the principle ones," says Steve Barrow, reggae historian and A&R director of the British reissue label Blood & Fire. "They were the ones who lucked out and met Lee Perry, who shaped them and pushed them in another...