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Insight - Young Chinese workers seek end to "eating bitterness"

ZHENGZHOU, China - In the eight years since Zhang Shuxiang first left her village in the poor interior of central China, she worked in 20 factories before coming to the assembly line of a Foxconn plant making products for tech firms including Apple. She wants it to be her last.

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Ignore the data, Royal Wedding and sunshine give Britain Plc a Q2 kickstart

Recent economic data has painted a pretty grim picture but anecdoatal evidence from retailers and manufacturers indicates a strong start to the second quarter, helped by unusually good weather and Royal Wedding fever.

Kate Middleton, the fiancee to Britain's Prince William, smiles during a Naming Ceremony and Service of Dedication for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's (RNLI) new Atlantic 85 Lifeboat, the 'Hereford Endeavour', at Trearddur Bay Lifeboat Station, in Trearddur Bay, Anglesey in north Wales February 24, 2011.  REUTERS/Phil Noble

A date with Kate

It’s the wedding of the year, well unless you believe all the hype in which case its the wedding of the decade, writes photographer Phil Noble.  Full Article