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From the International Herald Tribune: Even as Washington moves to impose new limits on Chinese garment exports to the United States, textile industry executives here say they are already looking a step ahead. They are trying to figure out how their workers can move beyond the simple cutting and sewing of garments into what is […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese President Hu Jintao will seek to play down a perceived economic and military threat to the United States from China on his first visit as head of state while seeking reassurances Washington will rein in Taiwan. Hu’s Sept. 5-17 tour of North America, which includes stops in Canada and Mexico, comes against […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: The pictures of Chinese-made sweaters, bras and trousers piled up in boxes in European ports have been a powerful symbol of the “flood” of foreign garments entering the European Union. But the threat to European textile producers – and especially to European jobs – has been wildly exaggerated, experts say. […]
Read MoreFrom Sapa-AFP, via the Mail and Guardian: Angola plans to begin rebuilding its roads destroyed in the 1975-2002 civil war, starting with a 300km stretch between the capital Luanda and the northern agricultural and mining province of Uige, the national road body said on Tuesday. China has granted Angola a $211-million loan to finance the […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor, via ABCNews.com: The barber of Houhai plies his trade the old way: a silver razor moves deliberately over the head, across the face, along the bridge of the nose, down the neck. He moves in unruffled concentration, as if time suspends for his work. In some ways, it does. Jing […]
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