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Businessman Turns His Success Into Opportunity for Youngsters in China

By Stephen G. Greene

For Joseph Ko, education was the key to escaping a hardscrabble childhood in Taiwan and rising to his current position as founder and president of a California office-equipment company that employs 500 people at its factory in Guangdong province in southern China.

"When I was a kid in Taiwan, our school's windows were always broken,...

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