Handle on China's trade gets slippery

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Hong Kong's share of the business of handling China's trade is shrinking. In the first quarter of 1997, Hong Kong's re-exports of goods coming from or going to China increased a mere 3.7% from a year ago. China's exports, in the meantime, soared 25% during the quarter. Moreover, the volume of container traffic that passed through Hong Kong's port grew at a slower pace compared with China's exports. The trend is attributed to Chinese manufacturers' increased efforts to ship directly to customers to avoid Hong Kong's high handling costs.

Exports of Goods & Services, Imports of Goods & Services, China, International trade, Hong Kong

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Chronicle sheds a new light on overseas Chinese

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The Chinese Heritage Centre in Singapore's Nanyang Technological University will publish a book that chronicles the Chinese diaspora. The book, "Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas," deals with the experiences of overseas Chinese, their business triumphs, atrocities and injustices they have endured, and their relationships with their motherland. The book, edited by Lynn Pan, is due to be published in Oct 1998.

Chinese (Asian people), Bibliography, Chinese in foreign countries

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Truly International hopes to fill market gap left by giants with less-sophisticated LCDs

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Hong Kong-based Truly International Holdings Ltd. plans to compete with major producers of liquid crystal displays. Truly founder Steven Lam is hopeful that the company can find substantial niche in the electronic display market. Lam is banking on the fact that major display producers such as Toshiba, Sharp and Samsung will compete with one another for dominance in the thin-film transistor market.

Electronic components, not elsewhere classified, Other Electronic Component Manufacturing, Liquid Crystal Displays, Management, Electronic components industry, Truly International Holdings Ltd.

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