Word: gongli
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...Shenzhen has surged by about 40% since 2000 to more than $4,000 last year. That's twice the average wage in other major cities like Chongqing. Higher costs are undercutting the profit margins of labor-intensive industries that have been the backbone of Shenzhen's economy. Greg Gong, CEO of Taiwan-based Further Tech, opened a factory in Shenzhen three years ago to make consumer-electronics gear, but he's already getting squeezed. Gong says his costs are rising by 10% annually, driven mainly by higher wages, and tough competition prevents him from increasing the price of his products...
There are some very pretty images in Miami Vice: a sporty little airplane flirting with a massive bank of clouds; down angles on speedboats cutting wide, frothy wakes through the water; almost any moment the camera concentrates on Gong Li or Naomie Harris...
...yourself? When I went to the U.S. in March, the Americans thought I may be too close to the mainland. But I am one of the few politicians in Taiwan who attends the Tiananmen memorial service every year. I am the only politician to go to a Falun Gong gathering. I was the first politician in Taiwan to criticize China's antisecession law, not because I support Taiwan independence, but because [the law] is unnecessary and unwise. I am Taiwanese as well as Chinese...
...rival Houses. The video begins with Russian monks burning down Lowell’s belltower—presumably in retaliation for the House’s refusal to return its bells to the St. Danilov Monastery from which they came. The monks steal Adams House’s prized gong, initiating an apocalyptic conflict. The video also mocks Kirkland House’s alleged Francophile tendencies—its House master, Tom Conley, is also Harvard’s director of graduate studies in French. And Wilson pokes fun at Mather’s industrial architecture by portraying House residents...
True to form, last week’s general meeting was a complete gong show, as the UC once again contemplated changes to its stringent non-discrimination policy on funding student groups. A brief synopsis: A last-minute piece of new business catapulted the UC into chaos, student group leaders were summoned to testify, a former UC vice president was dragged out of retirement to cast a vote of dubious legitimacy, a motion was made for the ejection of the chair of the Student Affairs Committee from the meeting, and the meeting ended without anything having been accomplished...