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...This year the stipend is $133,000 per team, which is supposed to help cover player salaries, food, equipment and travel for a 26-game schedule, plus play-offs. It doesn't go far. One poverty-stricken club in Shanxi province reportedly can't afford to feed its players meat during the season...
...said they plan to cut wages this year. Wide-eyed, unshaven men walk the subways begging for money. HELP ME, the signs around their necks read, RESTRUCTURED. That's Japan's euphemism for "fired." "We hope this is the bottom, but really, who knows?" sighs Masayuki Watanabe, 48, a meat wholesaler who closed his business three months ago when rumors of mad-cow disease chased away so many customers that it wasn't worth battling the steady increase in local taxes and other expenses...
...money - or will - to help new businesses get off the drawing board. For the first time since the end of WW II, Japan is facing the concept of personal and corporate obsolescence. "We hope this is the bottom, but who really knows?" asks Masayuki Watanabe, a 48-year-old meat wholesaler who gave up his faltering business three months ago (and with it a $70,000 annual income) and now peddles $5 lunch boxes in Tokyo's depressed financial district. "We have no choice but to start over." Even, it seems, if that means leaving the country. Laid-off Japanese...
...know that chicken flu is bad for business. After each H5N1 outbreak, Hong Kong has banned poultry imports from China, if only temporarily. When Macau detected H5N1 in Chinese geese last May, Chinese waterfowl imports were banned for three months. And after avian flu was detected in Chinese duck meat by Seoul authorities in mid-2001, Japan and South Korea imposed a two-month ban. Within days of Hong Kong's latest outbreak, sales of chicken plunged 80%?an estimated loss to retailers of $13 million. "This is supposed to be our peak season," says Wong Wai-Chuen, chairman...