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...southwestern suburbs of Sydney, his warehouses are abuzz as workers unload newly arrived shipping containers Since the early '70s, Salha has been buying goods in Asia, watching the focus shift from Hong Kong to Japan to Korea to Taiwan and now to mainland China. When he first went to Guangzhou in 1974, it took him four hours to see all the merchandise at a trade show. "Now it takes six people like me two weeks to cover it," says the quick-eyed Salha, who imports 500 containers a year. Sometimes, he adds, the cost of freight is higher than...
...SENTENCED. CAI XIAOHONG, former secretary-general of Beijing's liaison office in Hong Kong; to 15 years in prison for passing state secrets to British intelligence; in Guangzhou, China. Cai, who was arrested last year, is the highest-ranking Chinese official to be convicted of spying for a Western government. The South China Morning Post reported that he was paid more than $700,000 by the British Secret Service for sharing classified information, including the itinerary for former President Jiang Zemin's 2001 visit to Hong Kong...
Nancy M. Cline, Larsen Librarian of Harvard College, signed the agreement on Sunday with Professor Cheng Huan-wen, director of Sun Yat-Sen University Library in Guangzhou, China...
...year, and for the next few years Luen Thai plans to increase head count at its Dongguan facility from 5,000 to 14,000. In May, Luen Thai sold off its garment-making business in Mexico. Meanwhile, the company is constructing a second facility outside the neighboring city of Guangzhou that will be triple the size of the Dongguan compound...
...problems that dogged it a few years ago. Nike has cleaned up its shop floors. It cut its footwear suppliers in China from 40 to 16, and 15 of those sell only to Nike, allowing the company to monitor conditions more easily. At Shoetown in the southern city of Guangzhou, 10,000 mostly female laborers work legal hours stitching shoes for $95 a month--more than minimum wage. "They've made huge progress," says Li Qiang, director of New York City--based China Labor Watch...