Word: hong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member of the Georgia state transportation board; H. Jackson Mullins, a former pharmacist; and Richard T. Carr, a onetime Georgia bank president. The four defendants are charged with a variety of illegal acts in obtaining more than $20 million in loans from 41 banks in Georgia, Tennessee, New York, Hong Kong and Luxembourg. According to the indictment, they made false entries in bank records, misapplied funds, willfully overvalued property and conspired to gain unwarranted extensions of credit...
...Hong Kong bureau's David DeVoss last visited Afghanistan in September to report on its rocky transition to socialism. But this time, when he tried to drive in from Pakistan, he found the border closed tight. Nonetheless, he was able to get a perspective on developments inside Afghanistan by talking to Afghan rebel warriors near Peshawar and at Dara Adam Khail, a wide-open frontier town that, says DeVoss, "supplies the sine qua non of many an Afghan's wardrobe -guns." New Delhi Bureau Chief Marcia Gauger, whose experience with Muslim militance includes being besieged with 90 others...
...hectic week, the long surge in gold, silver and other precious metals crested into a wild pay-any-price frenzy. While bullion traders from Hong Kong to Zurich to Kansas City gaped in amazement, panicky investors big and small reacted to the worsening turmoil in the Middle East and the increasingly troubled world economy. They sent precious metal bars, coins and trinkets on the most dizzying roller-coaster ride in memory. Prices touched levels that were inconceivable a few months ago. Said a New York commodities expert, George Clarke, in a revealing if overwrought explanation of the market...
Taiwan, despite its tenuous political status and the growing number of countries which recognized mainland China and re-recognized Taiwan, continues bravely to maintain its independence and to develop economically at a pace close to that of Korea. Not far beyond economically were the small industrial city-states of Hong Kong and Singapore, which also witnessed remarkable attainment...
...Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston: musings about growing up Chinese and female in America...