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...considered himself lucky to have the opportunity to watch this classic. The 2,000 tickets available for Prince Igor ranged from just 300 seats at the cheapest price (380 renminbi, or close to $50, a considerable amount for most mainland Chinese) to 122 VIP seats (at 2,008 renminbi, or $250, each). Liu believes that most of the seats in the best section were set aside for government and Communist Party officials, who he says were among the quickest to vacate them at the intermission. "I think only 10% of the audience are true music lovers," said a man surnamed...
...been a lot of noise about fledgling efforts by Chinese carmakers Chery Automobile and Brilliance China Automotive to break into the hugely competitive U.S., Russia is currently the world's largest overseas market for Chinese cars. It's home to three joint Chinese-Russian factories assembling cars for seven mainland marques, including Chery, Great Wall, Geely and BYD Auto. While China's overall share of Russia's foreign-car market is relatively small - just 3% in mid-2007 - sales jumped 472% in the first half of the year and are projected to double in 2008 to between...
...With that kind of word-of-mouth, Chinese cars could account for 10% of Russia's foreign-auto market in 10 years, says Bonchev. But profits may depend on whether Chinese manufacturers are able to own and operate factories independently on Russian soil. Currently, mainland automakers are forced to rely on joint-venture assembly plants and licensing agreements to sell cars to Russians. To protect its domestic car companies, Moscow may keep it that way. Though four Chinese automakers have applied to open their own Russian plants, none have been approved, according to the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade...
...face of China's larger restrictions on religion, some overseas aid groups say, a boom in Bible production doesn't mean much. "It reflects the rapid growth of the number of Christians in China," says Bob Fu, who runs the U.S.-based China Aid Association, an advocacy group for mainland Christians. "But I don't see that can be a sign of increasing religious freedom." Several Chinese have recently been arrested for illegally bringing Bibles into the country, Fu points out. On Nov. 28, police raided the house of Beijing bookstore owner Shi Weihan, confiscating Bibles and other religious publications...
...After all, if you're Chinese, the attractions of moving to Japan are multiple: Tokyo is only a short flight away from the Asian mainland, and since Mandarin and Japanese share a common writing system, it's easier for Chinese to gain fluency in Japanese than in Western languages. Still, no amount of linguistic proficiency makes up for potentially abusive immigration policies. Take Tokyo's practice of attracting foreign labor under so-called practical-training visas, which allow for three-year internships. In 2005, more than 55,000 Chinese entered Japan under this scheme. But last year alone, the program...