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20 Aug, 2008

Hangover after China’s party?

Posted by: admin In: Around Beijing| News

By Ian Williams, NBC News Correspondent
GUANGDONG, China – Once the Olympic party is over, is China heading for an economic hangover? Ben Schwall, for one, thinks the headache is already setting in for the country’s seemingly unstoppable export machine.
“If you are a factory owner here, it’s not like you’re being kicked around. Somebody has [...]

By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer

At least twice a week, Wu Ying goes to a local gym in western Beijing to work out.  She joins a group of girlfriends and the occasional guy, and for a couple of hours they train with a dance instructor in a glass-walled room surrounded by treadmills and step [...]