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...before, he'd played the most exciting performance of Rachmaninoff's famously challenging Piano Concerto No. 3 I'd ever attended. So he could be forgiven for letting his football skills dip. Lang Lang is already a veteran. He's been studying his instrument since joining the Liaoning-based Shenyang Conservatory of Music at the age of 3, made his professional debut at 13, and grabbed attention in America in 1999, when his last-minute substitution in "Gala of the Century" in Ravinia with the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 brought the audience to its feet. "It was," says Lang...
...Sentenced. Yang Bin, 40, Chinese-born Dutch citizen who once ranked as China's second-richest man; to 18 years in prison for crimes including bribery and fraud; in Shenyang, China. Yang became wealthy raising flowers, before expanding into real estate. In 2002, he was selected to head a North Korean Special Administrative Region in the city of Sinuiju, apparently without Beijing's prior consent. He was arrested shortly afterward...
...FORMALLY CHARGED. YANG BIN, 39, Chinese-born Dutch tycoon who only two months ago was appointed head of a North Korean Special Administrative Region; after being placed under house arrest on Oct. 4 for charges of fraud and other commercial crimes; in Shenyang, China. Yang's fall from grace is an em-barrassment for North Korea, and may strain the country's historically close ties with China. Trading of shares in Yang's Hong Kong-listed orchid exporter Euro-Asia Agricultural Holdings has been suspended since late September, and the company has virtually collapsed, unable to repay its loans. Hong...
...Questions are also being raised about the way Yang secured land for the project. In July, the Guangzhou-based newspaper Southern Weekend published a story suggesting that Yang got the go-ahead to break ground at Holland Village under false pretenses. The article said the business plan submitted to Shenyang authorities called for high-tech farming and tourism, and Yang paid a much lower price for the land than if he'd declared he intended to use it for home construction. Says a manager at one of Yang's Shenyang companies: "As far as I know, building apartments was never...
...with a $900-million fortune, he lined up his cars, including a Rolls-Royce and two Mercedes limousines, so that Chinese papers could photograph them. "This is a town where, if you make a lot of money, you keep your head down," says an American businessman and long-term Shenyang resident. That's especially true if you expect you someday might find yourself explaining to the police how you made the money in the first place...