Shenyang, China
China has arrested the business tycoon whom North Korea just picked to run a free-trade zone on the Chinese border. Two weeks ago, the eccentric North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il announced he was opening the capitalist trade area with China. Even more surprising—at least to the Chinese, who were not consulted—was the appointment of Yang Bin, one of China’s richest men, to run the zone for the North Koreans. Chinese officials said Yang, who made his fortune selling orchids, is being held on charges of “various illegal activities.”
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