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Valve industry in Wenzhou (China Daily)Place: Oubei in Wenzhou, East China's Zhejiang province. Time: The summer of 1977. The sticky weather is driving Zhang Chenming crazy. The last thing he needs right now is nosey cops asking uncomfortable questions. Shrinking profits force hundreds of Chinese shoe makers to quit (TODAYonline)A factory worker glues leather shoes on a production line in the Chinese city of Wenzhou in 2006. Hundreds of shoe makers in southern China have closed down this year as profits slumped due to the rising yuan, higher costs and a weakening demand overseas, industry insiders said Tuesday. Yo-yo life overseas (China Daily)Laura Marie Martin emerged from the University of Northern Colorado with no solid plans for the future. "All my friends were getting serious jobs and I didn't want to face that," the English and history major says. Property marauders! (China Daily)When they first began foraging from city to city a decade ago, the so-called "property marauders" from Wenzhou in southeastern Zhejiang province struck terror in the hearts of aspiring homeowners from Shanghai to Chongqing and nearly every major secondary town in between. Low-Income Earners Live Like Corporate Heads, Says Flushing Resident (The Epoch Times)FLUSHING, New York City-Indonesian-born Chinese man Johan Chen came to the United States from Hong Kong almost 20 years ago, and has been living in Flushing since.On June 27, 2008, he told repor... Pro-Communist Mob Attacks 'Quit the CCP' Supporters in Paris (The Epoch Times)PARIS-A pro-communist Chinese mob attacked attendees of a rally in Paris supporting Chinese people who denounced the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on the afternoon of June 29.Communist supporter... Report on China's Parkas & Windbreakers Available Now (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "China Sourcing Report: Parkas & Windbreakers" report to their offering. Unemployed Knife Attacker Kills 5 Police in Shanghai (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)July 1 (Bloomberg) -- An unemployed man stabbed five officers to death and wounded four in a revenge attack at a police station in Shanghai, authorities said. Pro-Communist Mob Attacks 'Quit the CCP' Supporters in Paris (The Epoch Times)PARIS-A pro-communist Chinese mob attacked attendees of a rally in Paris supporting Chinese people who denounced the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on afternoon of June 29.Communist supporters ve... Letters to the Editor (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News) Let parents choose their children's public schoolsIn response to the June 18 article, "Europeans eye US models to ease school segregation": If the Dutch are looking to United States cities such as Seattle as models of official action to achieve school desegregation, they would be well advised to focus elsewhere. |
