"I remember when only a handful of people came, " says Tran Hong Chi, a guide for the somewhat grisly tours into the Demilitarized Zone or DMZ, a heavily bombed and severely poisoned territory that served as the boundary between north and south Vietnam.

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Chi Lo, China economist for HSBC in Hong Kong, says consumer loans are still brand new to the cash-based Chinese culture and have not been embraced by either lenders or borrowers.

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In 1985, along with business partner Roy Chung Chi-ping, he founded Techtronic Industries in Hong Kong, which had six employees and focused on producing rechargeable battery packs in hand tools.

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