Issaquah company fights to rebuild Afghan economy, one flip-flop at a time
How a couple of local veterans found out that rebuilding a war torn economy is almost as hard as fighting the war in the first place.
Category: Business
21 Feb
Sister city travel guide: Christchurch, New Zealand
Winter blues got you down? Seattle’s southern hemisphere sister city makes for a perfect February vacation destination.
20 Feb
Three lessons Seattle should learn from Boeing’s Dreamliner-gate
The worldwide grounding of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner and its battery fire put everyone’s worst travel nightmare front and center. A local aerospace expert gave us three takeaways from the aftermath.
29 Jan
Small-business suicides expose China’s hidden economic crisis
“Many things that shouldn’t have happened, happened because of money,” Mr. Wang Youliang tells the camera in front him.
“The situation in (Wenzhou) is a secret everybody knows but you can’t talk about it in public.”
He is a young entrepreneur and shoe manufacturer working in Wenzhou, China. Among his friends, five factory owners escaped and one killed himself.
18 Jan
Chinese b-ballers school West Seattle girls on and off the court
It’s Saturday night high school basketball in West Seattle. There are sneakers squeaking on the court and dutiful families chatting in the bleachers. Suddenly the crowd stands and turns towards a red flag hung beside the hoop as the band strikes up a brassy version of the national anthem…of the People’s Republic of China. This [...]
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