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In August, China’s biggest job-search site released a survey of 200,000 Chinese college students, ranking their -preferences for employment. Only three non-Chinese multinational corporations made the list of the top 50: Google, Microsoft, and Procter & Gamble, all in the top 10. That’s a steep decline from the 21 foreign firms that made the list last year.
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Poll:More Chinese Workers Prefer Domestic Firms
Against this background, the WikiLeaks story, which broke the day after the boxun leak, took on a special significance. In emails, tweets, and web postings, Chinese bloggers, both inside China and overseas, began listing key episodes in recent Chinese history that have remained shrouded in mystery and for which they would love to see archives opened:
1. The famine during the Great Leap Forward in 1959-62. Somewhere between 20 and 50 million people died because of bad policy, not “bad weather.” What exactly happened? What policies caused the famine and what policies suppressed information on it? How much grain was in state granaries while people starved? Is it true that Mao sold grain to the Soviet Union during those years in order to buy nuclear weapons?
2. The death of Mao’s military commander General Lin Biao in 1971. The official version of events, which to this day exists only in bare outline, strains credulity: Mao’s “closet comrade in arms” suddenly plotted a coup, failed in it, tried to flee to the Soviet Union, and was shot down in his plane. What really happened? Why? Why shouldn’t we know more?
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China’s 7 Secrets Beijing Wants To Keep From Wikileaks (New York Review Of Books)
BEIJING — Premier Wen Jiabao told a visiting Japanese delegation Sunday that Japanese companies operating in China should address workers’ unhappiness over low wages that he says led to labor disputes this year.
Wen’s comment comes after Japanese Foreign Miniter Katsuya Okada called for “transparent policies” governing workers in China, saying the labor disputes that halted work at dozens of factories were troubling to Japanese companies.
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China Premier Wen Jiabao Says Japanese Companies’ Wages Too Low
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BOSTON — An American held captive for seven months in North Korea stepped off a plane in his hometown Friday, looking thin but joyful as he hugged the former president who had helped win his release and family and friends surrounded him in a group embrace.
Aijalon Gomes was accompanied by former President Jimmy Carter, who had flown to Pyongyang to negotiate his freedom. Gomes, who had been teaching English in South Korea, was imprisoned and sentenced to eight years’ hard labor for crossing into the North from China on Jan. 25 for unknown reasons.
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Aijalon Gomes, American Imprisoned In North Korea, Returns To Boston
What the papers say: people turning to surgery to fight the flabChemist+DruggistScientists believe black rice could be one of the greatest “superfoods”, revered in ancient China but overlooked in the West. It is low in sugar and high in …
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BOSTON — An American who was imprisoned in North Korea for illegally crossing the border has a gentle spirit but is also a person of conviction willing to be bold about what he believes, friends and acquaintances said.
Aijalon Gomes had been teaching English in South Korea when he was imprisoned in January for entering North Korea from China, U.S. officials said. This week, former president Jimmy Carter traveled to the isolated nation to try to win Gomes’ release, and end the Boston’s man harrowing and unlikely trip from the inner city to a North Korean jail.
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Jimmy Carter To Return From North Korea With Aijalon Gomes
Amazon.com Widgets At least 42 people have died when a passenger jet overshot a runway in north-east China and burst into flames.
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Embraer E-190 jet plane Crash in China
Amazon.com Widgets china traffic jam A 62 mile-long traffic jam on a highway leading to Beijing entered its ninth day Monday, with no relief in sight the Chinese media is reporting. The Beijing-Tibet expressway, a stretch of highway that links China’s capital city with the northern province of Hebei and the Inner Mongolia region, has become increasingly prone to large traffic jams as the roadway is a major artery for the supply of produce, coal and other goods to Beijing
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China traffic jam enters 9th day, 62 mile-long traffic jam
Reuters UKChina Traffic Jam: 62-Mile China Traffic Jam Enters Ninth DayLong Island PressThat's because National Expressway 110—also known as the Beijing-Tibet expressway—is in the midst of a nine-day, 62-mile traffic jam. Yes. …China traffic jam stretching 100km enters ninth dayBBC NewsChina Traffic Jam Enters 9th Day, Spans Over 60 MilesHuffington Post (blog)The Great Stall of [...]
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