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Looks like no one wants goods that are manufactured in the U.S. The funny part is not even the U.S wants them. Why ? Who would like to pay 100-times the price of a product when you can get the same product(way better quality) manufactured in China and shipped(anywhere in the world) to you for a fraction of what it would have cost you if they were manufactured in the U.S.

Looks like U.S can no longer cheat the world by selling products at ridiculous prices just because it comes with a “Made in U.S.A” tag. Nobody is buying that anymore.

New orders for U.S. manufactured goods posted their largest drop in six months in April after a steep fall in demand for transportation equipment, suggesting some cooling in factory activity.

Durable goods orders declined 3.6 percent last month, worse than economists’ expectations for a 2.2 percent fall. March’s orders were revised up to a 4.4 percent rise from a 4.1 percent increase, the Commerce Department said on Wednesday.

All this could actually spell death for the U.S workers cause they might get fired as companies don’t want to keep employees when they do not have any work to do.

Well, the companies will survive by building manufacturing units in China where they can get cheap labor and satisfy the ever growing hunger for more profit.

Looks like finally its the hard-working U.S citizens that bites the dust.

World’s Oldest Panda, named Ming Ming, aged 34, dies in China.

Che, this is sad.I love Panda’s . When i hear such news about them  i become sad.

The Panda, Ming Ming died last week at the Xiangjiang Wild Animal World in Guangdong Province, Chinese daily The Global Times reported.

The female panda had lived at Xiangjiang since 1998, but had also travelled to zoos in London and Ireland during her long life.

Vets found that her organs had deteriorated as a result of old age, leading to kidney failure. Pandas do not usually live past the age of 22 in captivity, or 15 in the wild.

Well, Panda’s 34 age is like Human living for 80 + years. The fact that the Panda fought hard to survive such long years is a motivation factor for all beings on their right to live and Survive.

Inside Edition obtained an exclusive peek at the late Elizabeth Edwards’s will. Edwards reportedly signed the document on December 1, just 11 days before she died.

“All of my furniture, furnishings, household goods, jewelry, china, silverware and personal effects and any automobiles owned by me at the time of my death I give and bequeath to my children,” the will states. The document names her oldest daughter, Catharine, the executor of the private trust.

Edwards’s estranged husband, former presidential candidate John Edwards, was not mentioned in the will.

Scroll down to see the will of late Elizabeth Edwards

China, has proposed a new design of a bus that will eventually drive over a car or bike and need not wait behind the car during traffic.

The Shenzhen Huashi Future Parking Equipment company proposed this designed naming it as  “3D Express Coach” (also known as a “three-dimensional fast bus”).

If the design is successful, then the bus will look like this.

According to China Hush, the 6-meter-wide 3D Express Coach will be powered by a combination of electricity and solar energy, and will be able to travel up to 60 kilometers per hour carrying some 1200 to 1400 passengers.

If you look into the image above, you will find that the cars is actually under a Bus. Looks great, but i reckon this will not be easy to work with.

Agreed that this bus will not stop traffic, a car can easily pass through it . But what about other vehicles like the Buses,trucks which is used now?

What do you reckon?

Apple has decided to get into the Chinese market by starting a new Apple store in Shanghai. Apple had its presence in china for over 2 years, but finally it decided to enter the Chinese market.

China to get 25 new Apple Stores

Apple gave a preview of its new retail store to reporters on Thursday. The large outlet in Shanghai is set to be open to the public from Saturday.  This is the first store of the 25 stores that Apple has planned on opening in China. But they do not want to reveal their other locations yet.

This store has got something from Fifth Avenue store in New York. Yes, its the same 40-foot Box with Apple Logo inside it.

Apple is giving free t-shirts to the first 5000 visitors that walk into its store on Saturday. Looks like they want to make the store a hit on the very first day. But for some reason they didn’t reveal how much visitors they are expecting on the opening day. Apple with all its mysteries, sheeez.

Apple has only one store in China, its in Beijing. It was opened in 2008.

Though Apple is not going to launch iPhone 4G and iPad in china yet. Its just hoping its new line of stores will hope boost its iPhone 3gs phones.

Analyst Richard Doherty of market research firm Envisioneering Group said the move into the Chinese market is a good one. “China is the largest PC market in the world,” Doherty said.

police handcuff bull

In a bizarre incident in China, Police hand-cuffed a runaway bull that was causing chaos through city center streets.

The Bull caused traffic chaos in Liuzhou, in southern china’s Gauangzi province.

Pedestrians ran for their lives as the wildered animal charged through shopping ares.

After more than two hours of chasing the terrified animal around the city, police manged to catch it.

With the help of passersby, they managed to restrain the animal and cuff uts front legs to prevent it from hurting itself.

“It kept struggling to get away again. So we had to cuff it to stop it struggling”, said a police spokesperson.