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...that too may change. According to Eric Kan, whose Hong Kong-- based Oasis Global Sourcing designs and procures luxury housewares on the mainland, "Chinese factories have improved dramatically in the past three to five years in terms of their attention to detail." Kan outfitted the Sands Casino in Macau, and is at work furnishing a Manhattan clubhouse for the Ciprianis, the Venetian family that owns namesake hotels and restaurants around the world. Factories in China are capable of producing furniture for those kinds of venues, he says, but they need supervision. "Today I still have to specify what kind...
...allies to stop the North's cigarette exports. But there are clear signs that pressure on Kim's regime is being ratcheted up as the U.S. targets the country's various sources of dubious income. Last September, for example, the U.S. Treasury Department designated Banco Delta Asia in Macau as a "primary money laundering concern" and alleged that it facilitated the North's criminal activities by circulating counterfeit currency (charges the bank denied). And a senior Treasury Department official called on the South Korean government last week to help the U.S. combat the North's alleged involvement in such businesses...
...first verified case of state kidnapping by North Korea of someone from a country other than Japan or South Korea. In the book, Jenkins says Panjoy told him two other women were kidnapped along with her. Hong Kong's Sunday Morning Post says they were from Hong Kong and Macau...
...autobiography, which was published in Japan in October (and coauthored by this correspondent), Jenkins gives a detailed account of Panjoy's tale. He claims that she told him she was grabbed in Macau, where she was living at the time, taken by boat to Pyongyang, and made to marry Larry Allen Abshier, another U.S. Army deserter in North Korea. According to Jenkins, the couple lived near his own home outside of Pyongyang. Abshier died in 1983 and Panjoy was moved away by party cadres in 1989. Jenkins says he doesn't know what became...
...weeks ago, Sukham Panjoy, a resident of Chiang Mai who had reportedly seen local media coverage of Jenkins' life story, declared that the woman in the photo was his younger sister, Anocha, who disappeared from Macau 27 years ago. These revelations have caused a storm of anger against North Korea in Thailand and sparked concerns that there may have been more Thai abductees. In a meeting with Thai officials last week, however, North Korean envoys denied that anyone by Panjoy's name or description had been kidnapped or had ever lived in North Korea...