Word: jiangsu
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...stock to minimize disease pass easily into the surrounding environment, and some are highly toxic. Last year traces of the banned drug nitrofuran, which is dangerous to humans, were found by European Union inspectors in shrimp from Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. According to Wang Sihe, an expert with the Jiangsu Seawater Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese shrimp farms have mixed fish food with antibiotics and dumped it into fish ponds. Chloramphenicol, an antibiotic that can cause fatal anemia in humans, has also been used...
...Jiangsu province to the north and the other is in Zhejiang province to the south. It takes several hours by car to reach either factory from the dusty street in Shanghai where the FLA believed the ties are made...
Production of the ties begins at a factory in Zhejiang, according to Wu, and is completed in Jiangsu Province. The workers are mostly women between the ages of 20 and 50 who work from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., though sometimes they are asked to stay until 8 p.m. There are about 120 workers at each factory, he says, who make “about several hundred Harvard ties every year...
...Tiananmen; in the crackdown that followed, only workers faced execution. Students received jail terms.) These days, those who challenge China's single, official labor union still face harsh penalties. Cao Maobing, for example, tried to set up a union at his state-run silk mill in eastern China's Jiangsu province two years ago. Local officials apparently decided that was a lunatic idea: Cao was involuntarily committed to an insane asylum for six months and abandoned organizing...
...there; attendance at Chinese Basketball Association games has been rising steadily and is on pace to break 600,000 this season. Valuable sponsors are eager to plaster their logos on team jerseys and arena signboards. Homegrown superstars are emerging, such as rangy prodigies Hu Weidong, a crowd-pleasing Jiangsu Dragons forward, and Yao Ming, a 2.23-m windmill who regulates the paint for the Shanghai Sharks. Showtime in the CBA has all the trappings of big-time hoops. It's becoming a credible entertainment replete with thunderjams, jiggly cheerleaders and thousands of screaming spectators...