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...design, Kwan Jung Ran, the idea is to show that beauty hides in the least obvious places. "Denim is vintage, casual and popular. We added extravagant items, such as crystals and traditional patterns, to show that even denim can change from the most inexpensive clothing into the most luxurious garment...
...first time on Jan. 13, became the most popular IPO in Hong Kong history, with retail investors placing $4 billion worth of orders - or enough to buy 1,604 times more shares than the company had undertaken to sell. One investor was May Wong, a 50-year-old garment importer-exporter in Hong Kong. On the opening day of trading, she and about a dozen other investors gathered at a branch of brokerage KGI Asia in the city's North Point district shortly before 10 a.m. Within minutes of the starting bell, China Green shares had climbed 56%. Wong quickly...
...Kwan Jung Ran says the idea is to show that beauty hides in the least obvious places. "Denim is vintage, casual and popular. We added extravagant items, such as crystals and traditional patterns, to show that even denim can change from the most inexpensive clothing into the most luxurious garment." Already, international marketers are predicting that the new contrast look will make a killing. French label TantPourElle, which this year added a riot of color and texture to its normally simple, monotone line - including a multihued pinstripe button-down shirt with a sheer black chiffon back - expects...
...DIED. CHEA VICHEA, 40, leader of a Cambodian garment workers' union aligned with the country's political opposition; of gunshot wounds in an attack while he was reading a newspaper near a Buddhist pagoda; in Phnom Penh. Chea Vichea is the latest victim in a series of at least four killings in the past year of individuals linked to political parties opposing Prime Minister Hun Sen. "It's very difficult to say it was not politically motivated," said Prince Norodom Sirivudh, secretary-general of the royalist FUNCINPEC party...
...Wong sat transfixed before a computer monitor, watching stock prices and anxiously awaiting her big payoff. Shares of vegetable grower China Green Holdings began trading for the first time on Jan. 13, and Wong, a 50-year-old garment importer-exporter, was one of the lucky few who had obtained shares of the hot China stock at its initial public offering (IPO) price of 16?. That was no easy task, since retail investors ordered 1,604 times more shares than China Green had undertaken to sell, making it the most popular IPO in Hong Kong history. On the opening...