Word: hong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jardine jilts Hong Kong...
...rains returned to the Golden Triangle in 1980, bumper crops followed, and suddenly growers from Iran to Thailand were saddled with a burgeoning surplus. Prices for high-grade heroin are still falling, as Asian dealers try to undercut one another in a multimillion-dollar scramble for new users. Hong Kong's 45,000 addicts can now shoot up for about the price of a movie ticket, $3. In Malaysia, a fix costs less than $2, no more than a beer...
After his family fled Communist controlled Mainland China and re-located in the British colony of Hong Kong, the Oxford-educated Alfred Sung was encouraged to pursue his talent for drawing and painting. Despite the fact that he wanted to become an artist, his family sent him to the prestigious Ecole de la Chambre Syndicate de la Couture Parisicone in Paris to learn fashion design. After graduating from the progra in 1968 with high honors, he enrolled in New York's Parsons school of Design...
...defendants include three U.S. citizens of Chinese descent: Kuang-shin Lin, 38, of Lincroft, N.J.; Kwong Allen Yeung, 34, of Cortland, N.Y.; and David Tsai, 30, of New York City. Also charged are two Hong Kong residents: Da-chuan Zheng, 41, and his sister-in-law Jing-li Zhang...
Though China has nuclear weapons, it has lagged badly in developing atomic energy. The country has no operational reactors, mainly because it refused for many years to import foreign technology. Now the Chinese are looking outward. They have started a joint venture with the government of Hong Kong to build two French-designed reactors by 1991 in Guangdong province. China has also signed a preliminary agreement with France to buy two more reactors. Executives from Westinghouse and General Electric have paid several visits to China in recent months, but deals must await the signing of a U.S.-China nuclear cooperation...