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...recalled a shipment of medical supplies that U.S. soldiers brought to a rural area that had not received much medical financing or supplies...
...business. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency's (DEA) sting operation came together relatively quickly. According to the charging documents filed with the Southern District of New York, a confidential source working for the DEA emailed an associate of Bout in November to arrange for an arms shipment FARC. Using the code words "farming equipment" in the emails, Bout's intermediary allegedly planned for 100 Russian-made Ingla surface-to-air missiles to be air-dropped into FARC territory inside Colombia. After meetings in Curacao, Copenhagen and Bucharest, the DEA, through confidential sources, arranged for Bout to travel to Bangkok, Thailand...
...moment at the conclusion of “Let’s Get Lost,” Bruce Weber’s 1988 documentary, when legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker betrays a rare moment of honesty. When Baker learns in an interview that he’s secured a shipment of prescription painkillers from a doctor in Europe, the once-great artist looks with the pain of a mendicant in his eyes and says, “I didn’t know if I would make it through the week.”Screened for the first time...
...Hong Kong's port operations, too, have evolved to complement its neighbor, says Michael DeGolyer, a professor at Hong Kong Baptist University who has studied relations between the city and its mainland economic hinterland. "What Shenzhen ports have been doing is straight-through shipment," DeGolyer says. "You fill a full ship with Wal-Mart stuff, and it goes straight to the U.S." That has left Hong Kong's port - which is managed by Hutchison Whampoa, the same Hong Kong conglomerate that operates Shenzhen's - to concentrate on more logistically complex operations, including breaking down containers for shipment to multiple destinations...
...dilapidated, the power supply unreliable. But some companies are willing to take the risk. Four years ago, Wonjin Worldwide Corp., a Seoul-based mining company, formed a joint venture to mine and smelt Danchon's graphite, a heat-resistant material used in steelmaking and other industrial applications. The first shipment of 200 tons of graphite arrived in the South's port of Inchon in mid-December, and despite the problems in the North, Wonjin Worldwide now wants to invest more, says Yoon Byung Roh, the company's president. Like other mining-company executives, Yoon knows that North Korea and China...