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A cause you can fight for: shopping and seafood?

Taiwan women make clothes for Barbie dolls just 'coz they can and want to. They sell a few costumes, but that's not important. The women stand out.In a book I just finished, Miss Garnet's Angel, the main characters, from England, share the goal of... ...full story at Laowiseass

from Laowiseass on Wed, Mar 11 2009

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22 Sep 08 visit Survey: More women than men shopping online  »  People's Daily More women than men are shopping online, and making purchases more frequently over the Internet, showed the latest survey on online shopping habits issued by MasterCard here on Monday. The report, which surveyed 4157 respondents across Australia,...
17 Sep 09 visit China finishes preliminary selection of new astronauts, one third women  »  People's Daily The preliminary selection for candidates of China's second-batch of astronauts has finished, with candidates including 30 men and 15 women who are all air force pilots, authorities said Thursday. Among them, five men and two women would be final...
15 May 07 visit Women hold up share of sky  »  Shanghai Daily CHINESE women have more of a say in politics, with more than 200 of them in top positions such as governors and cabinet ministers, a senior official announced yesterday.
22 Feb 08 visit Taiwan spouses of mainland women angered by Hsieh's insult  »  People's Daily Frank Hsieh, a candidate in Taiwan's leader election, might pay a price for his excessive frankness this time, after calling local men who have married women from the mainland of China as "piggy brothers", according to Taiwan media reports. ...
29 Oct 08 visit Cross-strait exchange among women deepens, mainland official says  »  People's Daily The exchange among women on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait had helped lubricate the across-strait relations, said Lin Mingyue, head of Shanghai Federation of Taiwan Compatriots (SFTC) here on Wednesday. Lin made the remark when attending the...

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