Singles Mingle at Shanghai IKEA Cafeteria
Global Times reports on the swarms of middle-aged singles inundating the café at a Shanghai IKEA in search of free coffee and the loves of their lives. “They get real noisy and take up all the seats,” Yin...
furniture industry
Round-Trip Through Customs Converts Chinese-Made Furniture to “Imported”
Shanghai Daily reports an ingenious but foiled scheme to boost prices of domestically-made furniture: taking it through customs and immediately “reimporting” it, so it can be sold as premium, imported goods. Some...
New Tax Plan Sparks China Protest
From BBC: Protesters in the south-eastern Chinese city of Nankang have overturned police cars and blocked roads over plans to more strictly enforce payment of taxes. Officials in Nankang said several hundred protesters blocked a...
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