Return to family roots leaves employers with a headache China Daily Gu Yueming, deputy director of Shanghai SME Development and Service Center, said low-rent housing has been introduced to help new workers in the city. "But it's still far from affordable for laborers, whose average pay is a little more than 2000 yuan a ...
Factories concerned about return of migrant workers China Daily "Businesses usually have a 20 percent loss this time every year but the number this year is higher," said Gu Yueming, deputy director of Shanghai SME Development and Service Center. Gu said many migrant workers are put off by the high cost of living in ...
New year starts with a roar - Fairfield City Champion
New year starts with a roar Fairfield City Champion BY SHEREE MUTTON IT'S the most important celebration on the Chinese calendar, so it was no surprise to see thousands of revellers on Monday at Ming Yue Lay Buddhist Temple in Bonnyrigg welcome in the Year of the Dragon. The colourful and traditional ...
Chinese New Year 2012: North and South traditions differ, with Canadians ... - Toronto Star
Chinese New Year 2012: North and South traditions differ, with Canadians ... Toronto Star Today, there are hundreds of mutually unintelligible Chinese dialects in the south, categorized into groups such as Yue Chinese (eg Cantonese), Hakka, Min Chinese (eg Fujianese and Taiwanese) and Wu Chinese (eg Shanghainese). Television gala Of course ...
Asia Week NY rolls out an 8-day extravaganza of gallery open houses and museum ... - Art Daily
Asia Week NY rolls out an 8-day extravaganza of gallery open houses and museum ... Art Daily One of the most important pieces on view is The Ten Bamboo Studio, a rare three-volume set of first-edition pictorial leaves, dating to the Ming Dynasty. It is the most complete example known of the original edition, with all but one pictorial and one ...