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A Lenovo notebook on display in Hong Kong (file image)
Asia job cuts amid economy woes
Two large Asian technology firms, TDK and Lenovo, announce a total of 10,500 job cuts after a fall in demand.
China tourism 'hit by downturn'
Global stock markets in 2008

Map of China Veteran Chinese activist jailed
Chinese activist Wang Rongqing is sentenced to six years in jail for helping set up an opposition party.

A couple wed in Hanoi Vietnam state to run bride agency
Vietnam says it is planning to set up an official matchmaking agency for Vietnamese women and foreign men.

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Chinese Uighur's search for safety after Guantanamo
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China's once extravagant young learn to economise
Mao Xinyu Reynolds' China
China's most popular blogger - whose grandson?

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