Word: hong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plane taxied to its gate and three uniformed policemen stomped aboard, passengers heading for the exit were ordered back to their seats by the crew. One of the passengers was TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Sandra Burton, who had just finished reporting a story in the Indonesian archipelago and then, by prearrangement, had detoured to Taipei to accompany Aquino on the final leg of his homecoming flight. As Burton recounted it in a file to TIME this Sunday...
Though low-cost Chinese textile exports command less than 1% of the $100 billion U.S. market, they have grown at an average rate of 70% annually for the past three years. Among foreign textile suppliers to the U.S., China now trails only Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea. Prodded by the U.S. Government, the top three agreed to set a limit of 1.5% to 2% on the growth of their exports this year. The U.S. was willing to allow the Chinese an increase of slightly more than 2%, but Peking demanded 6%. When negotiations collapsed in January, the U.S. imposed...
...hours over the following eight days. Since then, the program has been moved into a regular twelve-hour time slot that begins on Friday nights. It has become by far the most popular TV show in South Korea, commanding as much as 78% of the viewing audience. Lee Won Hong, 54, president of KBS-TV, attributes the telethon's success in part to color television's widespread acceptance in South Korea, but the show's emotional impact and human drama are at least equally important. The on-the-air reunions are invariably heartrending, as years of anguish...
Work on the special issue began in March under the editorial supervision of Senior Writer Roger Rosenblatt. Tokyo Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold, Correspondent S. Chang and Reporters Alan Tansman, Thomas Levenson and Yuki Ishikawa were joined by Hong Kong Bureau Chief Sandra Burton. They conducted hundreds of interviews that ranged across Japanese society: Reingold met with Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone in his neobaroque Official Residence in Tokyo; Chang visited shabby neighborhood bars to talk with laborers who were not part of their country's "corporation families." The Tokyo task force was augmented by writers working in special areas...
...capital city of Jakarta. The Japanese government's proposals last year to gloss over the country's actions during World War II (among other things, officials wanted to change school textbooks to describe Japan's 1937 invasion of China as an "advance") caused major protests in Hong Kong, the South Korean capital of Seoul and in Peking. A few weeks later, Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines, publicly warned that "Japan will sooner or later, perhaps sooner than later, dominate...