Reported by Star-Bulletin staff & wire
Friday, June 6, 1997
An international architecture and design firm has been awarded a contract to design a $54 million 400-unit residential community in China. Isle architects
win big contract in ChinaAM Partners Inc. said it will design the complex of 13 high-rise buildings, waterfalls, swimming pools, single-family villas and other features for the Zhuhai Chief Group Co.
The project is in Zhuhai City, an hour by hydrofoil from Hong Kong. AM Partners' team consists of Charles Lau, partner in charge, with Darryl Yamamoto, Hiroto Suzuki, Victor Raskovsky and Edwin Leong.
Harry Bridges, who helped form the International Longshore & Warehouse Union in the 1930s and was its president for 43 years, was inducted into labor's International Hall of Fame yesterday at the Michigan AFL-CIO convention. Bridges inducted into
labor Hall of FameBridges, who retired in 1977 and died in 1990, helped form the union during the 1934 West Coast dock strike. In the 1940s, under his leadership, the union organized the sugar and pineapple workers in Hawaii.
An Australian by birth, Bridges was threatened with deportation as a Communist alien in 1939 but he was later officially absolved of communist connections. He was known for his belief in democracy within the union and his pioneering push for pension and health plans.
NEW YORK -- The nation's two biggest stock markets, the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market, announced yesterday they will close in observance of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday starting next year. King's birthday became a national holiday in 1986. NYSE, Nasdaq
will close for King Day