http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=china
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http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/11272007_2.xml
“CBP Officers Seized Over $6 Million in Counterfeit Goods this Month”
(Tuesday, November 27, 2007)
NEWS RELEASE SNIPPET: “Los Angeles - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers located at Los Angeles and Long Beach ports have seized over $6 million worth of counterfeit goods arriving from China this month. This reflects a 24 percent increase from last November.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1931878/posts
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/26/AR2007112602043.html
“Two U-Va. Students Charged in Kidnapping
Police in Fairfax Charge U-Va. Pair With Abduction”
By Tom Jackman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 27, 2007; Page B01
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November 28, 2007 issue:
http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArticle.asp?ID=31813&pid=1657
“University students charged with abduction
Fairfax County Police officials charge second-year students with abduction, intent to extort money after holding man for ransom”
by Jordan Dods, Cavalier Daily Associate Editor
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Two second-year Engineering School students were arrested and charged with abduction with intent to extort money last Wednesday after they allegedly bound and gagged a man and held him for ransom.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Guanyu Lu, 19, of 1709 Jefferson Park Ave., and Baichuan Shu, 19, of 583 Brandon Ave., abducted an unidentified 20-year-old Chinese man the night of Nov. 20, according to Gotthardt.
That evening, the suspects allowed the victim to place a phone call to his host family advising of the abduction and the $500,000 ransom demand, Gotthardt said.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “While Fairfax County Police investigate possible motives, students who know Shu said they do not know why the pair of Chinese nationals would have committed the crime.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “”I never really expected anything like this,” Scates said. “From what I have gathered he is well-off in China. Both his parents are electrical engineers; he had his own place in Shanghai ... I don’t think money would be a motive.””