China Restaurant
China (03/05)
U.S. direct investment in China covers a wide range of manufacturing sectors, several large hotel projects, restaurant chains, and petrochemicals. U.S. companies have entered agreements establishing more than 20,000 equity joint ventures, contractual joint ventures, and wholly foreign-owned enterprises in China. More than 100 U.S.-based multinationals have projects in China, some with multiple investments. Cumulative U.S. investment in China is valued at $48 billion. ... [Read More]
Higher Incomes Changing China's Food Demands, U.S. Officials Say - US Department of State
Food consumption in China has changed from a reliance on basic staples such as rice and noodles accompanied by small amounts of vegetables and meat to more meat, eggs, dairy, oil, fruit, seafood, bread and crackers, Gale said. Chinese consumers also eat more restaurant and processed foods, he said. ... Nearly every major U.S. food company, including restaurant chains such as Pizza Hut, now has operations in China, producing most of its products locally to keep costs down and save on transportation time, Gale said in a recent interview. ... [Read More]
China (Taiwan only)
In June, police arrested two men on charges of luring a woman to Japan with an offer of restaurant employment and subsequently forcing her to work as a prostitute. ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Higher Incomes Changing China's Food Demands, U.S. Officials Say
Nearly every major U.S. food company, including restaurant chains such as Pizza Hut, now has operations in China, producing most of its products locally to keep costs down and save on transportation time, Gale said in a recent interview. ... Food consumption in China has changed from a reliance on basic staples such as rice and noodles accompanied by small amounts of vegetables and meat to more meat, eggs, dairy, oil, fruit, seafood, bread and crackers, Gale said. Chinese consumers also eat more restaurant and processed foods, he said. ... [Read More]
Vietnam (04/05)
Services (38.1% of GDP, 2004): Principal types--wholesale and retail, repair of vehicles and personal goods, hotel and restaurant, transport storage, telecommunications, tourism. ... [Read More]
V. Country Narratives -- Countries A through G
Gabon is a destination country for children trafficked from Benin, Nigeria, Togo, and Guinea for the purposes of forced labor. Girls are employed in forced domestic servitude, market vending, and roadside restaurants. Boys are forcibly employed in small workshops and as street venders. Most trafficked children are employed in Libreville, but some are also found in smaller towns in the interior. Victims are typically trafficked into the country by boat and deposited on one of the many deserted beaches where the likelihood of detection is small. The Government of Gabon does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so. For the first time, the government publicly recognized its responsibility to care for foreign trafficking victims found within its borders. As a result, it took unprecedente ... [Read More]
Warden Notice 03/2005 - U.S. Embassy Islamabad Pakistan
All Mission members must take great care to avoid visiting any establishment reported to be frequented by criminals or criminal gang members – to include the restaurant/bar known as the “China Club”. ... [Read More]
Why Do They Leave Their Homes? - US Department of State
The disadvantage of working in the United States is that higher wages are accompanied by a higher cost of living. And the relatively low (by U.S. standards) wages earned by illegal aliens are generally insufficient to provide minimum comforts to immigrants trying to pay off enormous smuggling debts. An illegal alien can expect to earn $3 to $4 an hour as a worker in a restaurant or garment factory and will often be expected to work 80 or 90 hours a week to pay off debts, researcher Peter Kwong observed. Illegal immigrants are "constantly trapped in that low end, sweat shop market," because they lack job and language skills, Kwong said 4. ... [Read More]
September 11 Hurt New York's Chinatown,But Human Smuggling Continues to Flourish - US Department of State
Restaurant workers, which include many illegal aliens among their numbers, are now earning only $124 per week versus $320 per week. In addition, the Federation found that even five months after September 11, 70 percent of garment workers and 35 percent of restaurant workers were still working reduced hours. ... Pay for restaurant workers dropped from $320 per week to $124, the study says. Retail shop assistants' weekly pay dropped to $160 from $344. Hairdressers are now earning $84 per week; down from $316. Travel ticketing agents, who once averaged $607 per week, now make do with $292. The loss of work and reduced pay has in turn affected other Chinatown industries, Fong points out. ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Chinese Illegal Aliens: What Motivates Them
An illegal alien can expect to earn $3 to $4 an hour as a worker in a restaurant or garment factory and will often be expected to work 80 or 90 hours a week to pay off debts, observed Peter Kwong, a Chinese-American scholar and author of "Forbidden Workers: Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor." In an interview with The Washington File, Kwong said that illegal immigrants are "constantly trapped in that low end, sweat shop market," because they lack job and language skills. ... [Read More]
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