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Comment Re:Film at 11... (Score 1) 876

Actually the Chinese were trying to enforce something like a minimum wage and limit the working hours to around 40 hrs per week in summer 2008. But thousands of factories were in bad shape before the outcry of Paulson in Aug 2008. And now, right in the middle of the financial Tsunami, over 10000 factories, big or small, is expected to close.

You might have forgotten the obvious. The govt must pass a law to forbid companies from closing.

Comment Re:Well at MY place, (Score 1) 876

For the factory to get the contract, they have to compete against the Americans, Mexican, Indians, ... Ok, battle stage 1. Now battle stage 2, they have to compete with the factories from five neighboring provinces, each have population size more than a country in Europe.

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Submission + - Microsoft loses anti-Trust EU case (bbc.co.uk)

CPUsInHotPlaces writes: The BBC is reporting that the European Union's "Court of First Instance" has ruled against Microsoft in the ongoing anti-trust case. As a result of this ruling, they must pay abide by the original ruling from 2004 (including a 497m euro fine), and also pay 80% of the EU commission's legal costs.

The only section of the original ruling that was not upheld was the comission's attempt to impose an independent monitoring trustee

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