Word: cui
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That makes someone you have never heard of, Chiqui (pronounced Chick-ee) Cui, one of the most powerful men in the global economy. The U.S. ran a $162 billion trade deficit with China last year and, as Wal-Mart's top buyer in the country, he is a big part of the transmission belt linking China and the U.S. A gentle-spoken Filipino, Cui, 54, is managing director for Greater China and North Asia in Wal-Mart's global-procurement department. So, for factory owners across China, he is, simply put, the man to see. Every day on the fourth...
...GRANTED. To CUI YU HU, 104, stranded Chinese grandmother who has been living illegally in Australia since 1996; permanent residency, after urging from the Chinese government; in Melbourne. Hu, who has been living with her adopted Japanese daughter, was caught in diplomatic limbo when her recent application to stay was refused, while no airline was willing to transport the centenarian back to her home in China's Xinjiang province. Hu praised Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone for her compassion, saying, "She has a good heart. She will live very long...
...exhibition "Between Past and Future" at the Seattle Art Museum until May 15. The exhibition explores the legacies of China's imperial and Maoist past, as well as the effects of rampant development on the country's culture and landscape. An astonishing diversity of work is on display, from Cui Xiuwen's video Ladies Room?which looks at the social dynamics of the new China from the perspective of a nightclub powder room?to Huang Yan's beguiling Chinese Landscape-Tattoo, pictured here...
...sporadic school violence. Some Chinese parents appear to be taking matters into their own hands. Beijing Special Protection Security Consulting, which provides bodyguards to rich entrepreneurs, is planning later this month to expand their services to schoolchildren. They are having no problem drumming up new business, says company owner Cui Fengxian. "Our clients have been growing steadily" since the schoolyard killings began in August, he says. Bodyguards, however, can't protect kids from the violence they...
...Chinese tuning in to the Games, state broadcasters admitted that viewers were even being siphoned away from the endless documentaries celebrating the 100th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping's birth. China dedicated three national channels to the Olympics, and the country's state media dispatched 160 reporters to Athens. Cui Ying of the Shanghai Morning Post, a daily with a circulation of 600,000, estimated that her paper will spend about $120,000 covering the Games. Still, hefty advertising has offset such costs; China's state-run CCTV, for instance, says it is raking in $60 million in ad revenues...