22.10.2001

The FEER this week puts North Korea under the microscope, tracing the state's arms trade with the rest of the world. among others, Libya recently bought 50 Rodong-1 missiles with a range of 1,000 kilometres and the tamil tigers from sri lanka rides on naval speed boats from N.Korea.Other countries' investments in N. korea include rice, rubber, hotel chains and so on. and what does singapore has to offer?

Of course, the Garden City will help plant 80 million paulownia trees on 20,000 hectares of N korea's state-owned land. The Singapore Conferderation of Industry sent a delegation up, tho not much is expected to come out of that one. very interesting. if it weren't so late now (2am), i might try to think of sth we cld invest in..

the full report

but i did a search on paulownia trees.and there's an entire website on paulownia trees!!

www.paulownia.org