Word: asia
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...demand for cheap Chinese-made products. But this era may be ending. Most economists are predicting a significant slowdown in worldwide GDP growth in 2008. This slowdown, predicts Lehman Brothers economist Sun Ming-chun, will prove to be the "unmasking of [manufacturing] overcapacity in China." Says Li of the Asia Footwear Association: "The cake is only so big, and when you have too many people trying to eat it, you will definitely have some go hungry...
...MIDDLE EAST 500 Number of construction workers, mostly from South Asia, in the United Arab Emirates whom police say vandalized property on March 18. Rising inflation in the Gulf state has triggered labor protests 80% Percentage of U.A.E. residents who come from overseas...
...they seem so much more badass than rosebushes. But I believe our messy oil age will be replaced by better technology, not by a planetary embrace of Luddism. Because really, what's easier--one smart dude figuring out how to run cars on sea monkeys, or convincing all of Asia to never try air-conditioning? Those people eat spicy food...
Sunseeker built 318 boats last year, but Braithwaite doesn't expect to better that pace five years from now. Why bother? He can keep revenues climbing by building bigger instead. Rapid growth in Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe, particularly Russia, is taking up the slack in the U.S. and Western Europe, where sales are softer. "An explosion in the client base" of high-net-worth individuals is generating sales, says Vincenzo Cannatelli, Ferretti's CEO. These aren't people who flinch at high fuel costs. "Many of our customers are making money from the price of oil," Cannatelli...
...fiery agony as it migrated through her body. Here was the most graphic and disturbing example I had ever seen of the centuries-old guinea worm disease and all its devastating consequences. Although the scourge was preventable, it was ravaging the most neglected villages of Africa and Asia...