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...basic bras from its Shenzhen factory to other facilities such as its plant at Long Nan in Jiangxi province, where labor costs (including benefits) are 60% lower. Top Form's Shenzhen factory is now focused on manufacturing high-fashion bras featuring delicate fabrics and complicated designs, which require more talent to produce, but also fetch higher prices in European boutiques. Last year, Top Form also opened a product-development center in Shenzhen to create its own bras. "Shenzhen is not a place for low-skilled manufacturing any more," says Kevin Wong, Top Form's manager for corporate development...
...Those words may have globe-rattling implications. If Shenzhen can leap from assembling basic products with low-wage, poorly skilled labor to nurturing the innovations of lavishly paid talent, it could blaze a trail for the rest of corporate China, which must increasingly develop its own brands, designs and technology to rival those of America, Japan and Europe. It would not be the first time Shenzhen has led the way. The city, located in southern China's Pearl River Delta, has been at the forefront of China's free-market reforms for 25 years. In 1979, late Chinese leader Deng...
...When God is in the Lyrics All the little girl wanted to do was sing "Awesome God" at an after-school talent show. Instead she became the focus of a federal lawsuit - with a strange coalition of legal backers
...initially wanted to sing "Part of Your World" from the movie The Little Mermaid, but she didn't have a karaoke version and Ms. Bruner's tape of the song was too fast and, well, don't ask - Olivia has finally perfected her performance for the annual after-school talent show, "Frenchtown Idol." And "Awesome God" sounds great...
...interest viewers more are the show's real-life parallels. Perry had a Vicodin problem while starring in Friends, and Sorkin has had well-publicized drug issues and network run-ins. (He left Wing in 2003 after problems with production delays.) Now they're doing a show that says talent can redeem a checkered past. Let's see if their lives can imitate their...