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...When Zhou Shaoxiong decided to produce a domestic line of menswear in 1990, Western designs were in universal demand. Zhou was well versed in foreign style - at his Fujian factory, he had been producing export garments for five years, and the early designs of his own line, Septwolves, were almost identical. At the time, Chinese manufacturers seeking a reputation for quality and modernity still felt obliged to ape Western brands, as they had been doing for decades. "Like many other domestic companies, we started out aspiring for such influence," Zhou recalls...
...China FACING NATURE'S FURY Typhoon Morakot ravaged the Philippines and Taiwan before slamming into China's southeastern coast, flooding thousands of acres of farmland and forcing a million people to flee Fujian and Zhejiang provinces. Beijing estimates that the storm--the ninth in this year's Pacific typhoon season--destroyed 6,000 homes and inflicted $1.3 billion in damage. Morakot also breached dikes in the northern Philippines, flooding several villages (above), and walloped Taiwan with 74-m.p.h. winds, killing at least 62 people and causing the island's worst floods in 50 years...
...Taiwan tourism has just opened up and everyone wants to see what it's really like here," said Ms. Chen, a tourist from Fujian who declined to give her first name. "We've heard so much about it. That it's a beautiful place." So Chen and thousands like her visit the Sun Moon Lake and Ali Mountain - places that they read about as children in China but had always been forbidden to see. With them, they are bringing business to restaurants and manufacturers of typical souvenirs like mountain tea, fruit products, and, a particular favorite, the National Palace Museum...
...government has delayed approval as it weighed how to incorporate lessons from the latest food-safety scandals. China has endured a series of such scandals in recent years, and often the country's youngest citizens have been the victims. Five years ago, 13 babies died of malnourishment in coastal Fujian province after they were fed formula that contained little or no nutritional value. Last year at least six infants died and some 300,000 were sickened after consuming milk made from powder contaminated with melamine, a chemical used in making plastics. Melamine added to a diluted or inferior milk...
Lovell now imports 14 hand-harvested whole-leaf teas, ranging from a delicate, grassy white silver-tip tea ($10 for 25 g) made from spring buds grown in China's Fujian mountains, to the robust, olive tones of the Satemwa Estate black tea ($15 for 50 g), cultivated on the slopes of Malawi's Mount Thyolo. Although Lovell's leaves can be found in the mugs of Hollywood royalty (Anjelica Huston's a fan), they have also captivated regular tea lovers. "I got the builders who worked on my flat addicted to jasmine and white silver tip," she laughs...