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...announced plans to invest $1 billion in building the world's largest microchip assembly factory in Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as Saigon. Factories contracted by Nike employ 160,000 people, and recently increased their annual production to 70 million pairs of shoes, making Vietnam the world's second-largest source of Nike sneakers. (China is the largest.) The attraction for investors is obvious: Vietnam's labor force is educated, young and growing, while wages are even lower than in China's coastal cities. And the repressive political climate under the communists' monopoly on power creates a certain social...
...Vietnam is now the world's largest pepper exporter and second-largest exporter of coffee, cashews and rice. And multinational companies are increasingly selecting the country as a manufacturing base. Canon Inc. has two giant printer factories in Vietnam and is building a third in Bac Ninh province, 20 miles northeast of Hanoi. The new plant will be the largest inkjet printer factory in the world. Nike recently increased its annual production in Vietnam from 54 million pairs of shoes to 70 million, making the country the world's second-largest source of Nike sneakers (China is the largest...
...Committee. The committee’s biggest donor was Stop & Shop, which contributed $2.7 million, according to public filings. Shaw’s, which owns the Star Market on Beacon Street in Somerville and the Shaw’s in Porter Square, contributed $1.57 million, making it the second-largest donor. Combined, the two sides spent about $11.5 million, exceeding the previous record for expenditures on a Massachusetts ballot question—$9.1 million was spent in 1988 over a proposal that would have shut down the state’s nuclear power plants. OTHER BALLOT INITIATIVES On ballot Question...
...forest stake, timber made up roughly 10 percent of the University’s endowment. HMC has reduced its timber holdings in recent years, selling two-thirds of its approximately 1.3 million acre global forest holdings. Before the announcement of yesterday’s sale, Harvard was the second-largest forest owner in New Zealand. “We think that timber is quite attractive to what other asset classes have to offer,” then-HMC president Jack R. Meyer told The Crimson in 2004, a year before he left Harvard to launch his own hedge fund. Timber...
...Harvard’s graduating class included just four blacks. A half-century later, nearly 700 black alums from the classes of 1949 to 2006 packed Boston’s second-largest ballroom for the keynote dinner of Black Alumni Weekend. The event marked the largest gathering of Harvard’s black graduates, who reunited this weekend under the theme of “Roots and Revision: Revitalizing Harvard’s Black Community.” “This has been one of the most meaningful gathering of human beings I’ve ever been part...