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Sunday, January 04, 2004 |
China Closes 2,000 Fireworks Factories. Authorities in a northern Chinese province ordered more than 2,000 fireworks factories closed after a series of fatal explosions "sounded warning bells for the industry," the government said Saturday. The factories in Fengxiang County in the northern province of Shaanxi were mostly home workshops, the official Xinhua News Agency said. [Associated Press headlines via GoUpstate.com]
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Globe and Mail (Canada): "North Korea seen as the next Asian Tiger". Is this for real? I pity any company that tries to exploit North Korea's 'ultra cheap' labor before the siuation there radically changes. Human rights are a BIG issue with North Korea. It makes Burma look like the French Riviera in comparison By Geoffery York BEIJING -- Even in the midst of a nuclear crisis that has frightened the world, Roger Barrett refuses to see North Korea as a member of the "axis of evil." He touts it, instead, as something better: the next Asian Tiger. The 48-year-old British businessman is the leader of a hardy band of Western investors who see this bizarre socialist country as the Next Big Thing. He admits he is sometimes called an apologist, but... [Free North Korea!]
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