N. Korean women wed Chinese men to avoid starvation: Kim Hye Soon, a 36-year-old divorcée, met the man she considers her fourth husband one day and agreed to marry him the next. Only there was no gown, no music, no celebratory meal—no proper wedding at all. Kim simply followed him to his one-room cottage down a dirt road flanked by rice paddies.
Chinese Economy's Underside—Abuse of Migrants: Migrant workers are China's untouchables. They are assumed to be behind every unsolved crime. They are the yokels on the street corners of every city, barely able to speak Mandarin Chinese, wide-eyed with fascination or fear. (NYT: Requires free registration.)
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