Word: sichuan
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...situation in China's other provinces is not much better. In Sichuan province, which sends millions of migrant workers to Guangdong?where the disease is thought to have originated last November?an official of the local center for disease control told TIME that at least two migrant workers had died and six more were confirmed to have the disease. In a troubling precedent, a SARS-infected migrant worker who rode a long-distance bus back home to Sichuan was quarantined in the same ward with all his fellow travelers?increasing the chances they would catch the virus from...
...from column A and one from column B. In column A is a martial-arts star imported from Hong Kong; in column B, a rising young African-American, usually a hip-hop performer or stand-up comic. Studio bosses have decided that the ideal action recipe, like a good Sichuan dinner, is a mix of flavors, spices and colors. And where are the white stars? Don't need 'em in the new East-West rainbow coalition. To get into a decent fight film, Caucasian actors may soon have to petition the U.S. Supreme Court with an affirmative action-movie suit...
...molders under its cloth cover, China's Bamiyan buddha seems almost as cursed as its Afghan predecessor. But the reasons for its condition are peculiarly Chinese. Conceived of by the grandly named Sichuan Oriental Buddha Kingdom Co., the Bamiyan replica was to have been the prime exhibit in a privately owned Buddha theme park advantageously nestled in a UNESCO World Heritage Site that includes Leshan's own ancient buddha, the largest such stone statue in the world. But during the Bamiyan replica's construction, Oriental Buddha's workers allegedly destroyed dozens of the famed Mahaoya tombs, architectural marvels that date...
...private companies that can generate jobs for the masses. Time is running short. "If the trends don't change, China could face a real labor crisis in the next five years," warns Min Tang, chief economist for the ADB in Beijing. Meanwhile, says Tang Limin, a director of the Sichuan Investment Promotion Bureau: "State enterprises still have the government protecting them. Private companies live and die alone...
...favor of private firms is the government's dread of a grassroots social uprising. The number of jobs created in China barely keeps up with the armies of workers laid off by failing enterprises?and angry, laid-off workers are the biggest threat to the country's stability. Sichuan has seen its fair share of trouble: last June, traffic in Chengdu came to a halt on two occasions when workers held a protest about unpaid salaries; in September, 800 oil refinery workers in Chongqing demonstrated over paltry severance payments...