The recent regional financial crisis began in Thailand and, six months after the initial shock, tremors are still being felt. Chang says feelingly, "I've been involved in the Southeast Asian market for 20 years. Who would have thought that when our operations were going so smoothly, we'd hit this kind of once-in-a-lifetime financial crisis."
此波金融危機始自泰國，震盪半年多而仍餘波盪漾，張廣博的感受特別深切：「在東南亞闖蕩二十年，誰想得到在營運最順手的時候，碰上了百年難得一見的金融風暴？」