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Gray puddles fill the ruts along a cinder-paved alley leading to the Lianjiao Metal Processing Factory. The scene is typical of urban China's industrial districts; in Nanhai, a small city in booming, rough-and-tumble Guangdong province, scores of factories cluster together, their front yards choked with piles of twisted metal, junked plastic and old computer parts. But the killers who struck in the predawn hours of July 16 knew exactly which path would take them to their targets: Hou Kuo-li and Yeh Ming-yi, a pair of middle-aged businessmen from Taiwan who lived...
...That's what undid Southern Weekend, best known for searing investigations into controversial topics like teenage drug syndicates and kidnapped women sold as brides. The weekly protected itself by rarely reporting on its home province of Guangdong, one of China's most corrupt, and focusing instead on its neighbors. Since power in China stovepipes upward, Southern Weekend was rarely smoked out. Two months ago, however, Beijing convened a national propaganda meeting at which other provincial leaders "demanded that the paper be stopped," says an editor at a party-run newspaper. Critics included provincial leaders from Hunan, who didn't appreciate...
...here during the 1950s, Taiwan was still struggling for survival; today's grandiose notion of cultural identity was a distant luxury. While the newly arrived leaders of the Kuomintang, freshly landed from the mainland, were building their capital in Taipei, for the native Taiwanese, descendants mostly of Fujian and Guangdong natives who settled during the 17th century, life was hardscrabble. What kids like A-Bian dreamed about was a full stomach. He ate only rice most meals. Beef, chicken and fish were for special occasions. His family's typical stone, red-roofed house consisted of four simple rooms built around...
...superhighway from Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle via China to Hong Kong?and then to anywhere in the world. In mid-April, Vancouver customs officials found 42 kg of heroin with a street value of $64 million stuffed inside cans of pineapple chunks. (The contraband had been canned in Guangdong and shipped through Hong Kong.) Every weekend night, tens of thousands of Hong Kong nightclubbers rip through an ever-expanding number of Shenzhen dance halls where ecstasy, ketamine and ice are freely available and thrillingly cheap. E sells for $10 and tranquilizer pills, which cost $4 in Hong Kong...
...there are 13,000 serious work injuries each year in Bao An county, which includes Shenzhen. Zhou, a 46-year-old former brick factory worker, has taken 600 cases since 1997, winning payouts of up to $99,000. He may be the last hope for these workers: two other Guangdong lawyers doing similar work were murdered two years...