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...addition to the new exotic golf tourism, increasing affluence in countries like China and South Korea is fueling a golf-course boom. Although construction is slowing in the U.S., in China's Guangdong province alone, there are now 60 golf courses. The country's first professional golf tour was launched this month. The China Golf Association will have four tour events, each with $100,000 in prizes. On Cheju Island, off the tip of the South Korean mainland, 40 new courses are set to open by 2010 as a result of golf's exploding local popularity. In several cities...
Dazzling tales of newfound wealth aren't new to China. In fact, in the southern coastal province of Guangdong, the nouveaux riches are old news. Villages around the town of Kaiping are still filled with their architectural legacy, dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries when large numbers of Guangdong peasants joined the great migration of Chinese workers abroad. Many went to North America or Australia as laborers. Others established small businesses and came back relatively prosperous. To display their new wealth - and protect it from floods and roving bandits common at the time - they built spectacular...
...country and aptly illustrates the "cultural pollution" they claim is emitted by the new reforms. To keep eager Chinese nonresidents out of the zone, the government has built a barbed-wire fence, complete with a patrol road and arc lamps, along Shenzhen's 53-mile border with Guangdong province...
...mining projects. Comalco, owned by Rio Tinto, recently commissioned an alumina refinery at Gladstone in central Queensland, the first plant of its kind to be built in the world for 20 years. The first liquefied natural gas shipments will begin next year from the North West Shelf to Guangdong province: the start of a 25-year, $A25 billion contract that took many Australians by surprise when it was announced in 2002. The country's largest ever export deal, it was negotiated by Australia's Woodside Petroleum with the help of the Australian government. Other LNG projects...
...with any problem affecting Hong Kong, the mainland and Taiwan?which in October discovered it too had fire ants?fingers were inevitably pointed. Hong Kong officials complained that Guangdong authorities had left them in the dark; mainland farmers blamed Taiwan for foisting the little terrors on them in the first place, likely stowed away in shipments of recyclable trash. For Hong Kong, news of a fire ant invasion on the eve of the high-traffic Lunar New Year holiday was received with dismay, especially since it meant canceling shipments of traditional holiday plants from the mainland. The city's Health...