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...Gloss’ by Lil’ Mama Green may be the new Crimson, but sparkly lip gloss is the new milkshake. 8. ‘Girlfriend’ by Avril Lavigne (Eight Language Version) Wo bu xi huan ni de nu peng you! 7. ‘Womanizer’ by Britney Spears Catchy tune, but we can’t seem to remember the lyrics... 6. ‘Get Down’ by B4-4 Frosted tips are totally coming back. 5. ‘Stripper Friends’ by Tila Tequila Do stripper friends...
...Universal's best talent scouts and marketing execs had locked themselves in a boardroom to brainstorm the next world-music star, they would have been high-fiving each other for coming up with something even half as marketable as the strikingly beautiful Sa - or Zhou Peng, as she was known before making a stage name out of her mother's Mongolian surname and a childhood nickname. With troubles in Tibet and Xinjiang generating plenty of international interest in China's ethnic minorities, her origins are perfectly calibrated to appeal to the liberal, middle-aged and mostly Western buyers that make...
...spicy XO sauce - a Cantonese condiment made with dried seafood and chili, but containing none, incidentally, of the XO cognac from which it takes its name. Even the cocktails come with a savory twist - one, Myth of the Orient, contains soy sauce and chili peppers. Proprietor Loh Lik Peng, who also owns the New Majestic boutique hotel next door, says that the bar's menu was intended to offer "a more substantial dim sum that can be paired with alcohol." And the biggest seller? Crispy pig intestines...
...cost hundreds of thousands of workers their jobs. Makers of low-end goods are already suffering. The Guangdong city of Huidong was home to 3,000 shoe factories at the beginning of 2007, but as many as 500 of them have closed over the past 15 months, says Li Peng, secretary of the Asia Footwear Association in Hong Kong. One-sixth of 44,200 textile firms tracked by the China National Textile and Apparel Council lost money last year, and two-thirds are just breaking even. "Manufacturers' profits are so low that when they hit the slightest snag, they have...
...cost hundreds of thousands of workers their jobs. Makers of low-end goods are already suffering. The Guangdong city of Huidong was home to 3,000 shoe factories at the beginning of 2007, but as many as 500 of them have closed over the past 15 months, says Li Peng, secretary of the Asia Footwear Association in Hong Kong. One-sixth of 44,200 textile firms tracked by the China National Textile and Apparel Council lost money last year and two-thirds are just breaking even. "Manufacturers' profits are so low that when they hit the slightest snag, they have...