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...swag,? are generously handed out to presenters at each of the half-dozen or so major awards ceremonies that take place each year. Typically the bags contain tens of thousands of dollars worth of goods and services donated by companies eager to have celebrities using their products. Even the richest stars snag swag, and who could blame them...
...city are industrial and drab, and in recent years petty street crime has become so bad that some Hong Kong residents no longer shop there for cheap household goods and knock-off designer clothes. But with per capita GDP of almost $7,500, Shenzhen is among the richest cities in China. Today's downtown is a jumble of traffic-clogged streets, luxury hotels, Hugo Boss and Louis Vuitton stores, and foreign eateries like Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. At the Portofino housing complex on the city's outskirts, golf carts carry residents from their lavish condominiums to the development...
...jail, no bail" tactic relieved activists of financial burden and inspired similar protests. "I guess if we had to do it today ... we'd do it again," he said in 2001. DIED. Yasuo Takei, 76, founder and former chairman of consumer-credit company Takefuji and Japan's second-richest man; in Tokyo. Takei, worth an estimated $5.6 billion, started Takefuji in 1966 with just four employees and grew it into one of Japan's most profitable companies, famously claiming to have slept only two hours a night on his road to success. He resigned in disgrace in 2004 after being...
...their catch. "We cannot monitor it," says a European Commission official in Brussels. Tuna-ranching companies have become sensitive to environmental criticism. Spain's largest company, Ricardo Fuentes and Sons, declined to speak to Time, as did Azzopardi Fisheries in Malta, which controls some of the Mediterranean's richest breeding grounds. A.J.D. Tuna Limited, which Azzopardi owns with Japanese partners, says on its website that since industrial fish farming is essential to feed the world's population, "we are constantly working to try and reduce the impact of our industry on the environment." The company says it operates its fish...
...unfortunate coincidence that what is thought to be the world's richest trove of prehistoric rock art, an island-dotted precinct covering a 45-km radius, is also one of the hubs of Australia's resources bonanza. Liquefied-natural-gas tankers and ships loaded with iron ore leave from here on timetables set by China's seemingly endless demand. Doubling back to Karratha...