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...growing up. Up until June 26, when she formally announced that she was going into show business, her only stage experience had been in an elementary-school musical. But she had been exposed to glamour in other ways. Although she grew up in Vancouver, her father, business tycoon Edward Chen, took her to star-studded parties and exclusive backstage events whenever she visited Hong Kong. Later, Chen watched Edison launch his career armed with little more than some hip-hop Canto-pop tunes and a lust-inducing smile. Although she had blossomed attractively herself, Chen remained a bystander, attending university...
...machines a year; this year, Stern Pinball is shipping "significantly less." Still, says Stern, "it's been a growing year. We're very happy with it. There's room for one company." His biggest hit this year was a new machine called Roller Coaster Tycoon, though the fact that it is based on a computer game probably helped. Sleeping with the enemy may be what it takes to survive as the last guy standing in a field once ruled by names like Gottlieb, Williams and Bally...
...days before the Sept. 2000 grand opening of a replica of Amsterdam's railway station at his Holland Village property development in the Chinese rust-belt city of Shenyang, agri-business tycoon Yang Bin decided he wanted the large greenhouses nearby filled with flora so visitors would get the impression the project was on track. Yang's farm experts protested there was no way to grow the requested tulip and orchid plants that quickly. Undeterred, Yang went out and bought them from local farmers, replanted them in the greenhouses and passed them off as his own. "If you work...
...capped by his motherland. Before dawn on Oct. 4, Chinese police knocked at his residence in Shenyang and summoned him for questioning. Authorities have since filed a "case for criminal activity" against him, according to the official China News Service. The charges are unclear, but Yang, a flower-seed tycoon worth an estimated $900 million, recently acknowledged publicly that he owed the Chinese government some $1.2 million in taxes. Tax evasion by China's fat cats is a national scandal, and Beijing is keen to nail some high-profile deadbeats...
...dictator Kim Jong Il's desire to end his country's self-imposed diplomatic isolation. But Kelly warned that relations with Washington could not improve unless there was clear evidence that North Korea is committed to reform. Meanwhile in Shenyang, north China, authorities detained Yang Bin, the Chinese-born tycoon who runs the North Korean free-trade zone of Sinuiju. Police questioned Yang about tax evasion as well as real estate and stock fraud. MEANWHILE In The Drink Albania's capital, Tirana, thought it had escaped Europe's summer floods. But a drunk dam worker changed that. Angry at being...