Word: fujian
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...fact quite mild compared to its vehement outrage over the visit of Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui to his American alma mater last June. Beijing's reprisal then included the expulsion last August of two American air force officers who had been monitoring Chinese military operations in southern Fujian province...
Michael Jackson toured Asia last summer, too. But--thank the Great Helmsman--he didn't make it to Quanzhou City, Fujian province, People's Republic of China. There wouldn't have been enough room for both our doting entourages...
Even in places where it is easy to hide, some illegals are actively pursuing legitimacy. Quiet and self-effacing, H. Lin, 30, a young factory worker from the rural province of Fujian in China, left his family behind in the old country earlier this year to seek his fortune in America. For a fee of $30,000, which he borrowed, he was smuggled into the country by plane at Honolulu. Confronted by the INS, Lin claimed political asylum, boarded another plane and promptly disappeared into the nearly impenetrable subculture of New York City's Chinatown...
...months ago he left his wife and child in Fujian Province, where fellow villagers paid $20,000 to nameless smugglers to transport him to America. The plan was for him to make a fortune for all of his investors. Instead, once he arrived in New York, the snakeheads disappeared and he was left to fend for himself. He has no documents to certify his stay here. He lives in a one-room basement apartment with five other men, sleeping on three-tiered bunk beds. Anyone who can't pay the $100 rent each month is kicked out. He says...
...smuggling cases show how rewarding the business has become. Just since 1988, authorities have arrested 30 smugglers along the U.S.-Canadian border. The top gun: Cheng Chui-Ping, 41, a woman who was nabbed in Vancouver in December. Cheng, who began life as a peasant in southern China's Fujian province, has allegedly built a $30 million fortune by smuggling thousands of Chinese into New York City. Cheng has gone free on $50,000 bail, and officials fear that she is back in business. "Cheng is the biggest we've ever arrested, but she's not even...