Michael Pettis: Rocking Chinese Finance – BusinessWeek
By Dexter Roberts Beijing – D-22 looks like a Chinese version of New York’s seminal punk club of yore, CBGB. Young hipsters sporting Mohawks and ripped T-shirts chug Tsingtao beers and puff on Zhongnanhai cigarettes. Demerit, Carsick Cars, Snapline
Philippine troops continue hunt for kidnappers of Filipino-Chinese – Xinhua News Agency
COTABATO, the Philippines, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) — Philippine security forces on Friday continued the pursuit operation against kidnappers holding a Filipino-Chinese businessman and his 10-year-old daughter in the south, despite the abductors’ earlier
Police rescue kidnapped Chinese student with Burnaby takedown – CBC News
Members of the Vancouver Police Department’s Emergency Response Team used ‘flash-bang’ grenades to take down several suspects in an alleged kidnapping plot Tuesday morning. (CBC) Police in Metro Vancouver say they rescued an 18-year-old Chinese
RP troops continue hunt for kidnappers of Filipino-Chinese trader – Philippine Star Online
COTABATO, Philippines ( Xinhua ) — Philippine security forces on Friday continued the pursuit operation against kidnappers holding a Filipino-Chinese businessman and his 10-year- old daughter in the south, despite the abductors’ earlier warning to
UPDATED: Shooting at Chinese Restaurant – WREG
UPDATE: Police have identified the shooting victim as 22-year old Michael Woods of Memphis. February 18, 2009 Updated 10:42 PM — An update to the breaking story WREG News-Channel 3 first brought you this evening. A man is dead after being shot
More Than One Thousand Petition for Release of Chinese Author – Mediabistro.com
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Wages tumble as Chinese workers hunt factory jobs – Reuters UK
CHANGPING, China (Reuters) – Scarce jobs, falling wages, sputtering assembly lines and labor scams are some of the rising problems faced by millions of Chinese migrant workers struggling to weather the downturn in export hubs like Guangdong. Twenty
Chinese constructors to construct water supply project for Nepali – Xinhua News Agency
KATHMANDU, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) — Melamchi Water Supply Development Board (MWSP) has signed a contract with a Chinese team of contractors for the construction of the first phase of the Melamchi Water Supply Project in central Nepal, The Himalayan Times
Chinese copper entrepreneurs flee DR Congo – Financial Times
More than 40 Chinese-run copper smelters are standing idle in the Democratic Republic of Congo after their owners fled the country without paying taxes or compensating staff at the end of the commodity boom, according to a governor. Mo se
Chinese professional women work as nannies, maids – Newsweek
(GUANGZHOU, China) She majored in English and loved her job as an office worker in China ‘s once-booming export industry. But now Xiong Xuhua is jobless and in training to be a housekeeper, a fate she is too embarrassed to tell even her husband about
