Dongguan is prosperous now, but it also faces a serious crisis 
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BASRA, IRAQ - OCTOBER 18: People gather around a Land Rover as it arrives at the village Al Houta on October 18 2008 near Basra, Iraq. The trip by the 51 Sqn Royal Air Force Regiment Force Protection Wing was part of a 'key leader engagement' (KLE) visit to the village close to the Basra Airbase to recruit local labour and engage with the village shiek. Visits of this type are seen as key in efforts to continue winning the support of the local Iraqi population. Although improved security in the region has brought some benefits such as improved trade and commerce, much of the infrastructure remains in a poor state of repair. Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown has indicated that the number of UK troops could be scaled down - especially as the security situation in the south of the country continues to improve.
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Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks during a campaign rally in the rain at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, September 27, 2008.
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A puppy stands on a truck carrying people to be evacuated from the area in preparation for the approach of Hurricane Gustav in Batabano, on the southern coast of Cuba, August 30, 2008. Powerful Hurricane Gustav roared toward western Cuba on Saturday with 125 mph (205 kph) winds on its way to the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico after a deadly pass through the Caribbean.
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BANGKOK, THAILAND - AUGUST 30: A member of Anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) stands behind barbed wire outside Government on August 30, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand. The protesters want to unseat the seven-month old coalition government lead by Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, arrive for a meeting in New Delhi, India, Friday, Dec. 5, 2008. Medvedev, on his first visit to India as president, said Russia can help India fight terrorism and investigate the deadly attacks in Mumbai.
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Father Laurent Chu Van Minh, the newly ordained Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of the Hanoi Diocese, smiles after his consecration ceremony at Nam Dinh Church, 90 km (56 miles) outside Hanoi December 5, 2008. Father Laurent worked as a barber and teacher for 32 years before he was consecrated as a priest in 1994 at the age of 51. Vietnam has 8 million Catholics, the second largest community in Asia after the Philippines.
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NEW YORK - DECEMBER 04: Actor Harold Pirraneau attends the 2008 Stockings with Care celebrity bartending night at Bar 13 on December 4, 2008 in New York City.
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A memorial tribute to shoe mogul Thomas Bata is shown at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto September 3, 2008. Bata died earlier this week at the age of 93.
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A visitor takes a close look at a photo by French photographer Bettina Rheims during the inauguration of her exhibition "Can You Find Happiness?" on March 7, 2008 at the c/o-Gallery in Berlin. The exhibition runs from March 8 to May 11, 2008.
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Forty-five euro coins, worth 500 Slovak Crowns or 16,60 euros, are seen in Bratislava where Slovakian banks and post offices started selling them on December 1,2008 before Slovakia joins the euro zone on January 1, 2009.
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People walk behind the European Union's flag during the annual gay parade in Budapest July 5, 2008. Several hundreds of demonstrators clashed with the police in the center of Hungarian capital as police tried to separate them from the participants of the Gay Pride march.
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Articles sorted by relevance containing "Wang Taiping"
...neighboring rooms suffered water damage as firefighters battled to extinguish the blaze. However, Jinhuaâs Cultural Heritage Bureau said the damage was minor. King Shiwang's Residence of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom covers 63,000 square meters. ...
...Beijing shows that he values Sino-Japanese ties just as much as his predecessors Shinzo Abe and Yasuo Fukuda did," said Wang Taiping, China's former consul general in Osaka. "One message he will likely bring is his willingness to further deepen the mutually...
...professor. "Taxes collected there will be divided between participating cities," Wu said. In March, provincial party boss Wang Yang raised a ruckus when he said that low-tech factories should move and migrant workers should be urged to take their savings and...
...Deng Xiaoping opened the Pearl River Delta to foreign investors eager to set up factories. The first in Dongguan was the Taiping handbag factory. Thousands more followed. Dongguan is now home to 7,000 garment factories, 3,000 shoe factories that produce 1...
...Deng Xiaoping opened the Pearl River Delta to foreign investors eager to set up factories. The first in Dongguan was the Taiping handbag factory. Thousands more followed. Dongguan is now home to 7,000 garment factories, 3,000 shoe factories that produce 1...
...Fauziah Hospital in Kangar yesterday. Wichem Magar, 38, and his wife Gillian Magar, 36, were crossing the Malaysian border in Wang Kelian here when they discovered that their 1-year-old twin daughter, Nalo, was feverish. Nalo was warded at the Tuanku Fauziah...
...demand for our products. But it is hard for me to say whether that will help lift our sales by 5 percent or 10 percent," Wang Taiping, planning head for Guangxi Liugong Machinery Co Ltd <000528.SZ>, a construction equipment maker, told Reuters. ($1=6.937 Yuan)...
...this. Regularly he challenges the judgements of the dynastic historians, particularly as they adversely affect such rulers as Wang Mang and the Empress Wu Zetian, who, though they governed China effectively enough, did themselves no service when they failed...
Quotes spotlight for "Wang Taiping"
It's not so easy to move production from one place to another ... A big factory has maybe 200 or 300 subcontractors. You can't move a factory if you don't have subcontractors in place.
said Roberto Veneziani
Some of my friends moved to Vietnam. There's plenty of labor. Labor costs are lower but logistics costs are higher
said K K Chung
