Word: fujian
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...prospective foreign buyers of toys, clothing, shoes and handbags. But there was a difference, say businessmen who attended. "A lot of purchasers came to negotiate, but they didn't want to pay the higher prices," says Zhen Dahui, an executive for an umbrella-and-handbag manufacturer in China's Fujian province, complaining that his firm did fewer deals than usual...
...raise a child, but Harvard China Care (HCC) courted a community of corporate sponsors last night to help raise 34. The occasion was a black-tie dinner at the Faculty Club to contribute toward $100,000 for a new building at a privately run orphanage in Saiqi, in Fujian Province in China. “This is the first dinner of this type for us,” said Jennifer J. Esch ’09, publicity manager for HCC. “We are trying to reach out to a larger community now.” Last night?...
...embracing economic reforms, religious controls began easing as well. The skylines of Chinese towns now teem with temples, shrines and churches. In Shanghai alone, at least 25 Buddhist temples have been built or renovated since 2000. Other cities are also being transformed. In the seaside town of Quanzhou in Fujian province, where Nestorian Christians and Manicheans practiced their faiths during the Silk Road's heyday, one of the city's oldest clans, the Wangs, built a shrine in the 11th century to honor their family. But the sanctuary was converted into a stable during the Cultural Revolution. Today...
...organization founded this year. Over sixty Harvard undergraduates, graduates, and tutors collected pledges, totaling between $500 and $1000 per runner, to support Project HEALTH and the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA). Four runners also ran to raise money for Harvard China Care, with donations funding an orphanage in the Fujian Province. Training for many of Harvard’s runners began last fall while others started last week. Einhorn said that the community of runners “makes a big difference,” and that he had probably gone on about ten training runs with the HCMC...
...convicted of the manslaughter of 21 Chinese men and women. (Authorities believe another two died that night, but their bodies have never been found.) Lin, the "gangmaster" of the cocklers, had misjudged the ferocious speed of the bay's tides. Each of the Chinese - almost all of them from Fujian province, which has seen its natives emigrate all over the world for generations - would have pledged some $30,000 to one of China's notorious snakehead gangs for the promise of a better life. Instead, they were sent to fill bags with cockles on a sandbank far from shore...