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Business Matters: North Korean consequences 14 Dec 13

Sat, 14 Dec 13

Recent hopes of economic reform in North Korea have been banished¹ with signs of a tougher political climate in the closed communist state. So will businesses and investors² in South Korea and the wider region take fright? Our guest, Sean Turnell, of Australia's Macquarie University compares recent protests in Thailand and Singapore. And would you weigh and pay, before you fly? It's a model that's working for Samoa Air.

1 banished   

v.放逐，驱逐( banish的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He was banished to Australia, where he died five years later. 他被流放到澳大利亚，五年后在那里去世。
• He was banished to an uninhabited island for a year. 他被放逐到一个无人居住的荒岛一年。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 investors   

n.投资者，出资者( investor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
• a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会