Word: hong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...available on street corners in some American cities for far less than the normal $5 to $10 price. Ideal Toy Corp., which holds the U.S. distribution rights of Rubik's brainteaser, has sued more than 20 American companies for importing fake cubes from such places as Taiwan and Hong Kong...
Gradually they became sophisticates in international finance. For one deal, says Steinberg, they siphoned money through a yacht broker in Miami to a bank in the Caymans, thence to Hong Kong, and ultimately to Thailand. Later Steinberg dispatched cash and trusted aides to start a multimillion-dollar agricultural operation in Kenya. The crop: marijuana...
...country in the area strong enough to stand in its way, Tokyo gained its present domination over the Pacific, invading the Hawaiian Islands in 1910 and forcing a weak Mexico to cede the Catalina Islands, off the coast of Southern California, in 1913. Santa Catalina is now the Japanese Hong Kong, a center of industrial activity whose smoggy air often fouls the otherwise clear skies of sleepy Los Angeles. Defeated by Japan at the Battle of Tsushima Strait in 1905, Russia was forced to give up Russian America, sometimes known as Alaska. Now, under its young and aggressive new Tsar...
Levin will spend the spring term at the University of Hong Kong helping develop the university's new comparative literature department and working on East-West literature relations...
...countries," says one top relief official. "The agency is much too timid about protecting, let alone acting upon flagrant violations of the refugees' rights." Among such violations: Thailand's return of 60,000 Cambodians to famine-struck Kampuchea in 1979, though most flooded back within days, and Hong Kong's repatriation of 10,000 Chinese who escaped from mainland China to the crown colony in the past year...