Word: hong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...false claim that it was FDIC-insured, Rewald's world began to unravel. The IRS and Securities and Exchange Commission started probing Rewald's affairs early this year. State officials issued investigative subpoenas in late July after Rewald's firm published Capital Flight from Hong Kong and How Hawaii Can Benefit, a report so transparently amateurish that it instantly raised eyebrows in Honolulu's financial circles. A few days later Rewald checked into a Waikiki hotel and slashed his wrists. Wong is in Honolulu and is cooperating with the federal investigation. Since his hospital recovery, Rewald...
...Harvard panelists, although supportive of Fujioka's broad points, expressed doubt over the legitimacy of the use of Japan and the small-industry "Gang of Four"--Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Korea--as "models for the developing world...
...American figures show that goods of Chinese origin totaled 0.9% of all U.S. imports. The Chinese do not include in their figures goods transshipped through Hong Kong for reexport...
...section, where tickets cost $2,380, were occupied. Toward the rear, where passengers could fly for as little as $1,200, nearly 80 seats were empty. Flight 007 was bound for Seoul, but 130 of the travelers planned to go on to more exotic Far East destinations such as Hong Kong, Tokyo, Taiwan. They were flying KAL because it offered some of the lowest fares to Asia...
Even in sluggish 1982, the value of foreign-made apparel increased almost 10% and totaled $7.1 billion. Longtime suppliers like Taiwan, Hong Kong and Korea are being joined by new ones like Sri Lanka, Malaysia and parts of the Caribbean and Mexico. Since all these countries have access to the same machines and patterns in this low-tech business, their cheaper wages allow them to drive down costs. The typical garment worker in China makes 16? an hour; in Taiwan 57?, and in Hong Kong slightly more than $1. President Sol Chaikin of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union contends...