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Are the Chinese racist?

Published on November 3, 2009 in International, Internet Issues and Race and Identity. 10 Comments Tags: , , , .

By Tim Collard
November 2nd, 2009 – telegraph.co.uk
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Lou Jing

Lou Jing

Yesterday The Observer reported an alarming row over a TV talent contest in Shanghai. One of the leading contestants, a 20-year-old girl named Lou Jing (pronounced Low not Loo), has attracted enormous opprobrium from all over the country. Some of the comments in the Chinese blogosphere are almost unbelievable. Sounds familiar, you might think. But the only allegation levelled at her is that she has dared to appear on television while being of mixed race, her father being a black African who was not married to her mother.
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Jail Chinese contractors for slavery

Published on October 18, 2009 in Complaints, Finance, General T&T, International, Politics and UDeCOTT. 29 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

By Raffique Shah
October 18, 2009
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Chinese labourersSOME five years ago when criminal activities intensified to frightening levels, several people who care about this country suggested to Prime Minister Patrick Manning that he declare a limited state of emergency. I was among those who argued that once the law enforcement agencies were armed with intelligence-identities of the main criminals, overlords of the guns and drugs underworld-Government should move to stem the crime tide by use of emergency powers to arrest the situation, to rescue the country.
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‘Chinese work like slaves’

Published on October 14, 2009 in Complaints, General T&T, International, Politics and UDeCOTT. 6 Comments Tags: , , , , .

By Richardson Dhalai
October 14, 2009 – newsday.co.tt
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Chinese labourersThe camp at Chatee Trace, Cunupia where Chinese labourers of Beijing Liujian Construction Corporation is tucked away on a lonely stretch of road.

The living quarters are shielded by sheets of galvanise which line the length of the compound.
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