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Begging for Jobs. Between April and last month, 500,000 peasants were sent back to their villages. In one month, 35,000 pedicab and rickshaw men "volunteered" to migrate to northern Kiangsu; in one day 4,000 sampan dwellers left for inland cities. The government press reported proudly that 80% of the city's university students and flocks of physicians were begging for frontier jobs...
...buildings and a special Braille printing press from the Foreign Operations Administration. Taught by a staff of Roman Catholic Salesian sisters and Thai volunteers, her 189 pupils come from all over the land-the children of high government officials and poor shopkeepers, of rich merchants, pedicab drivers and coolies. Eventually, she hopes to build a new $50,000 building, a vocational training center in Bangkok, and an elementary school in northern Chiangmai. But even if those plans never go through, she will have accomplished her mission. "The whole attitude of the Thai people towards the physically handicapped," says...
...Year's on Formosa, the beginning of the Year of the Sheep. All last week, places of business, including the newspapers, were closed in observance of the holiday. Along the streets of Taipei (pop. 500,000) firecrackers popped among the red-brick buildings from dawn until dusk. Pedicab coolies in conical straw hats and straw raincoats lounged by their carriages, inspecting their bare toes as they waited to take Formosan families on New Year's calls. A soft fog ringed the lush, green hills, throwing a grey blanket over the palms, the camphor trees and the sweet-potato...
Driving up Macao's Rua Padre Antonio one cool, drizzly morning a few weeks ago, two youths found their way deliberately blocked by a pedicab. At that moment, three men forced themselves into the car and, at pistol point, made the youths drive on to an empty bicycle shop on a lonely street. Here the kidnapers hauled them out, stuck oranges into their mouths, blindfolded, trussed and loaded them into gunny sacks, dumped them into a couple of rickshas. Singing gay Cantonese songs to drown out any possible outcry, the men pulled the rickshas to an empty house...
Chinese amahs who never before had permanents have them now. Pedicab drivers who used to be barefoot are sporting new, all-leather sandals. The pith helmet is no longer the hallmark of the pukka imperialist; the helmets, many of them carefully coated with aluminum, gilt or yellow paint, sit grandly atop the heads of coolies. These days an Englishman would rather walk into the lobby of the Raffles Hotel without trousers than be caught wearing a pith helmet...