Word: hong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still claims only a clutch of 13 tiny dependencies, including the Falkland Islands, the British Virgins, Anguilla, St. Helena, Bermuda, Pitcairn Island and the uninhabited British Antarctic Territory. Britain's two most important holdings are Gibraltar, which Spain would like to reclaim, and the free-trade port of Hong Kong...
...remarkably varied and important undertakings. There is a joint program to collect intelligence data on Soviet missile tests. Trade has risen from virtually nothng a decade ago to $5.5 billion last year, and the U.S. has become China's third-anking partner in commerce (after Japan and Hong Kong). Some 80 American companies have established offices in Peking, and the Bank of China has started a branch in New York City. Last month China opened 58,000 sq. mi. of potentially rich offshore oil grounds to competitive bidding by 46 oil companies, half of them American...
...furniture. Officers and chemists in Khun Sa's narcotics army lived in spacious villas with manicured lawns. The warlord himself kept a hilltop aerie outfitted with a television in every room, an elaborate stereo system and a swimming pool. There were even photograph albums of family vacations in Hong Kong. The soldiers also discovered huge caches of weapons, ammunition and communications equipment...
Pham was told to eat for strength, and he did. But he remembers thinking that if the people on the boat ran out of food again, he planned to jump overboard. He is afraid of the boatmaster still. Thanks to Pham's testimony, the boatmaster was jailed by the Hong Kong authorities. Pham is terrified that the man will be released and come after...
...Europe stumbles and the U.S. slows, the economies of the Far East have hardly broken stride in their race for prosperity. Even as recession engulfed much of the Western world in 1981, most non-Communist Asian nations achieved growth rates of between 3% and 7% for the year. In Hong Kong and Singapore, output surged by 10%. These Pacific powerhouses contributed more to the increase in world production than the U.S., Canada and Europe combined Economists expect that the Asian nations will score similar growth gains...