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...ward at Richland International Hospital, a private facility in Kunming, Yunnan province, costs anywhere from $60 to $320 depending on whether patients choose standard or VIP care, according to Tommy Chu, director of China Health Management Corp., a Las Vegas--based company that entered a joint venture with Yunnan-based Richard Technology Co. in 2006 to build and run the hospital. That's three to 10 times the cost of a day in a public-hospital ward...
...Richland International's website describes luxury rooms that are "conducive to healing," featuring amenities such as bathrooms, Internet access, refrigerators and personal safes. Hospitals such as Richland and United Family typically sell levels of membership. A year of basic care runs about $730, but memberships with more elaborate care cost as much as $14,600, according...
...Richland is courting investors to bankroll its goal of claiming a 40% market share of the private-medical-services industry in Yunnan. Chu says 60% to 70% of the country's hospitals may ultimately be privatized--a scenario that could advance the company's goal. But investors don't seem convinced. The stock was recently trading at 88% below its 52-week high in January, which Chu blames on volatile U.S. market conditions...
...Most schools don’t get a chance to practice in those conditions.” The two regattas were only half of the events the sailing team participated in over the weekend. The Crimson’s boat finished tenth at the ICSA Sloop National Championships in Richland, Michigan. Harvard also competed in Rhode Island in the Nickerson Trophy, the New England freshman championship, where it finished sixth. By winning the Schell Trophy, the coed team was able to qualify for the Atlantic Coast Championship in Maryland two weekends from now. The women’s team...
...that land values are coming back in Marquette that after building his own house on a free lot, he took another and is building in hopes of selling quickly for a profit. "This is a great opportunity," he says. For the town too. --With reporting by Sarah Sturmon Dale/New Richland, Pat Dawson/Chugwater, Rita Healy/Denver, Chris Maag/Whiting, Marguerite Michaels/Chicago and Eric Roston/Washington