By Valerie Sartor Oliver Irwin refuses to stop working even though he is comfortably well off and no longer a spring chicken. Slender, quiet and alert, this distinguished silver-haired man arrived in China in September 2005, having accepted an offer from... ...full story at Biz Cult
from Biz Cult on Tue, Jan 20 2009
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