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With his nylon socks and cigarette pinched between index finger and thumb, Liu looks like any other small-fry entrepreneur in China's hinterland. Yet for two reasons, he is different. First, his business is oil. Second, he's running from the police. Liu, who declines to reveal his full name, changes his cell-phone number weekly and won't pass two nights in the same bed. His fugitive life is shared by dozens of other wildcat oilmen in northern China's Shaanxi province, where independent drillers are fighting for compensation after the government seized their wells and detained several...
...square kilometer. Entire villages often pooled their money to invest in rights and rigs. More than 6,000 wells were drilled, and soon the "pump worms," as derricks are known in the local dialect, yielded crude. "I saw people building new houses, hiring teachers for their children," says Liu, who in 1999 formed a company with four other people, borrowed heavily and drilled three wells...
...clearly and publicly recognize that Tibet is an inseparable part of China and [that] Taiwan is also an inseparable part of China." LIU JIANCHAO, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, reaffirming the conditions necessary for the Dalai Lama's return to Tibet from exile, speaking on the day before the Buddhist spiritual leader's 70th birthday...
...engineer husband Jayram, 53, who own a five-bedroom house in Coral Springs, Fla., are about to trade in their 2002 Mercedes--it's time for something newer. That spells opportunity for General Motors, which has begun pushing Cadillacs in desi circles. "This is a great market," says Jean Liu-Barnocki, GM's manager for Asian-American marketing, "and we're putting some very targeted resources behind reaching...
...Leap Forward in 1958, which called for enforced nationwide collectivism on the farms and a buildup of steel production in backyard furnaces. The campaign proved disastrous, producing a series of prolonged famines that starved some 27 million people during the years 1958 to 1962. By 1961 Deng and President Liu Shaoqi had realized the enormity of the miscalculation and set about correcting it. At a tense party plenum that Mao did not attend (so that Liu, Deng and others could gainleader ship experience prior to the Chairman's death), they announced measures reinstating private farming plots, peripheral industries like...