Word: migrant
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...holiday with such a commercial element, there are intriguing signs that the deeper meaning of Christmas is spreading in China. Yiwu, in coastal Zhejiang province, is home to half a million migrant workers from the country's poorest reaches. Many of them have become curious about Christmas, says an elder at Yiwu's main Protestant church. Last year, 30,000 people attended Christmas Eve services in a church with pews seating only 7,000, so the minister set up loudspeakers in the churchyard. At the end, he asked how many first-timers would consider joining the church. "Hands went...
...Westerners back "home" in the East, people who don't know where they belong--and master classes in the art of sly and sensuous fiction. Born to a German mother and a Bengali father in India, long a resident of Britain and the U.S., Anita Desai was a global, migrant writer before such a thing was fashionable...
...Last week the age of terror caught up with Nepal. On Aug. 31 the Iraqi extremist group Ansar al-Sunna announced that it had killed 12 Nepalese migrant workers kidnapped outside Ramadi 11 days earlier. A grisly video showed two militants slitting one hostage's throat and holding up his severed head before they went on to shoot the other 11 in their heads. The group's statement admonished Nepal "and other lapdogs of the Jews and the Christians," adding: "Do not sympathize with this impure group. They have left their country and traveled thousands of kilometers to work with...
...killings were a gruesome reminder that the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq is supported by a very vulnerable secondary army of tens of thousands of migrant cooks, cleaners and drivers from the Middle East, Africa and Asia. (The same week, kidnappers freed three Indian truck drivers, three Kenyans and an Egyptian but killed three Turks.) The executions produced concerns of a different kind for Nepal's Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, who was accused of not doing enough to free the hostages. The deaths capped a rough fortnight in which the Maoists tried to cripple Kathmandu by forcing 12 corporations...
...drinking less wine a decade ago. Argentine producers--who make more wine than Chileans but export only 15%--had a choice: export or go bust. "We had to differentiate ourselves," says Bernardo Hoffmann, marketing director for the Wines of Argentina export association. Hence the rebirth of Malbec, a French migrant long dissed as merely a blending grape. Enologists found the grape to be a more complex varietal than once thought, especially in Mendoza's dryer, Andean conditions. Today, Malbecs like Catena's, from $10 to $50, score high with U.S. critics for their exuberant, fruity and floral styles...