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...Industrialist, parliamentarian, and suave football diplomat who brought the World Cup to South Korea, Chung Mong Joon wants you to know he's also a jock. Flying down to southern Cheju Island from Seoul to watch a football game a week before the Cup, Chung, 50, is leaning back in his seat and pointing to his left elbow, which he banged up playing basketball. He shifts his left shoulder: crushed bones and severed tendons in a ski-racing accident. Then there's the right knee fractured by a football tackle. Pointing to a scar on his right hand, he smiles...
...recent news reports claim that Peng Run-tzu, a politically-active industrialist, arranged for Taiwan Transport Machinery to send money through James Kelly at CSIS to Akiyama...
...Excursion: Abramtsevo, the estate of Savva Mamontov, 19th century industrialist and patron of the arts. It's 80 minutes by local train (elektrichka) from the Yaroslav Station, then a 10-to-20-minute walk through pleasant woods. Price around $3.50. Closed, like nearly all museums, on Mondays...
...Swissair said it would cut 3,000 jobs at its catering subsidiary, Gate Gourmet, and merge with its regional airline Crossair into a single carrier, resulting in thousands more job losses. "It?s the beginning of a more realistic time," said Sepp Moser, an industry analyst. A prominent industrialist, Ulrich Bremi, was named to head a panel that is trying to raise an estimated $1.9 billion in fresh capital to keep the airline afloat. The Swiss government said it may contribute to the refinancing but insisted the private sector take the lead...
...They owe their lives to a Peace Parks Foundation set up in 1997 by retired South African industrialist Anton Rupert, head of the Rothman's tobacco empire, to raise funds and promote interregional partnerships in game conservation. Rupert pushed the idea not just to improve game management and create more tourism jobs but also, in a continent known more for conflict than cooperation, to promote peace. Endorsed by Nelson Mandela and funded by eminent local and foreign sponsors, the foundation drew up a list of eight potential cross-border sites, covering up to 200,000 sq km in 10 southern...