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14 % golfers ‘ TID BIHI MIL has a very successful operation in Hong Kong and holds an increasingly larger share of the local market. Total premiums reached $3.4 oillion (Hong Kong! ($598.4 million Canadian) in 1995, the total number of policies in force have risen by 80% in the last four years, and last year, benefits paid out to policyholdâ€" ers reached almost $1.2 billion (Hong Kong) $211.2 million (Canadian). Manulife (International) Limited (MIL) is a wholly owned subâ€" sidrary of Manulife Financial, Canada‘s largest life insurance comâ€" pany with $46 billion (Canadian) consolidated assets Jan. 1/96, and an annual revenue of $8.6 billion (Canadian). Manulife Financial‘s Greater China Division has its regional headquarters in Hong Kong and oversees business operations in Hong Kong, Taiâ€" wan Macau and China MIL will contribute 51 per cent of the registered capital of Zhong Hong Life. The new company will begin to operate as soon as possible after a license is granted. Manulife Financial and Sinochem have signed an initial agreeâ€" ment to form Zhong Hong Life Insurance Co., Lid. The Peoples‘ Bank of China (PHOC) approval is required before Zhong Hong can commence operations. After the negotiations, the official voters‘ list included 978 peoâ€" ple, of whom 706 cast ballots. Downey said the outcome represented a vote of confidence in the abrlity of UW to work out matters collectively. against union certification, said UW president James Downey. The announcement comes on the heels of the Ontario Labor Relations Board‘s release to the university of the official results. Results of the midâ€"April vote by facility members, instructors and hbrarians were: 361 against, 287 in favor and four spoiled ballots. Another 54 ballots were "segregated and not counted" after two days of negotiations in Toronto at the Ontario Labor Relations Waterloo business on the move Courts Plus has moved from the Erb Street Atrium to 22 King St. S., in Uptown Waterioo in the former location of Dakota Kids. Owner Chris Edwards, a former tennis professional at Westâ€" mount Golf and Country Club, hopes the move will improve his business‘ visibility, attracting more recreational tennis players and *The club people knew where to find me, but this move was to target the recreational golfer and tennis player," said Edwards, whose store mainly specializes in tennis equipment and apparel. Manulife and Sinochem sign deal Faculty members at the University of Waterloo have voted UW faculty turns down union \ _MANULIFE/ Ride for Heart | Foot, a University of _ of Boom, But & Echo speaks at Toronto Economics profesâ€" sor, said in an interview from Toronto on Tuesday that he decided to write Boom, Bust & Echo‘ because his two previous books on demographics were more academic in nature. Because he has coâ€" written his newest book with professional business writer, Daniel Stoffman, Foot says he now believes his ideas will be more acces is the most powerful tool people have to understand the past and forecast the future. The trouble is, corâ€" porations and governments rarely look at demographics when they do their planning for the future. In fact, Foot says, the study of human populations Demographics, Foot says, can shed light on such diverse topics as real estate investments to the public‘s taste in cars, from jobs and the structure of corporaâ€" tions to the most efficient way to plan for a country‘s education and health care More than 400 volunteers are needed to get this year‘s § Manulife Ride for Heart rolling! U aze Come out and have fun on Sunday, June 2nd and support the Heart and Stroke Foundaqm/ of Waterioo Region. We have lots of volunteer openings for the whole family. Be a route marshall or cheerleader, or help with registration and pledge collection. To receive more information or to become a volunteer, call Judy Hyde at the Heart and Stroke Foundation at 571â€"9600. That‘s because David Foot, the author of three books on demographics, will be speaking about his latest book, Boom, Bust & Echo‘, at 8 p.m. Property owners wonderâ€" ing why they can‘t sell their current vacant office space in Waterloo should probaâ€" bly come to The Seagram Museum this Tuesday night. Author to explain latent power in human demographics Chronicle Staff ... your volunteer efforts make a difference. §» ow ol Pm e w in i i w i 6 6 e un a need you!‘ David Foot, University of Toronto economics professor, and author of Boom, But & Echo speaks at The Seagram Museum on Tuesday, Presented by: Joduy‘s ts and Yestardiy‘s Fevoaries aichymfm w h h w e e ie a e 0 a a o n# a a n a ww of the baby bust generation won‘t reach the ages of 20â€"21 until the year 2001, Foot said. Therefore, the demand for office space will likely not start to pick up again until the first decade of the 21st Century. + «©â€"*So the demand for office space dropped 20 per cent over the late 1980s " Foot said. "And all through the 1990s, it‘s the bust genera tion that‘s entering the labor Unfortunately, members (Continued on page 15) city won‘t be sell any of its week or next, C City project The City c likely not be to sell any c growth in 1 decide to flee fair amount future as the the 21st Fr City par But Wate