Kids who have the allergy need to be taught to be especially aware of the dangers of Chinese food, candy bars or a friend's home- baked cookies.

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Whether through gold bars or bracelets, gold demand from Chinese households has risen since Jan. 2000 at a compound average growth rate of 8.9% year-on-year.

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Cadbury's Ron Pugsley said its researchers found that the Chinese don't like big bars of chocolate, because they regard sharing bars as unhygienic, so the company now produces more sizes, and smaller ones, than in the rich world.

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In theatres and temples, there is a chance to see popular Chinese opera and puppet shows, while karaoke rings out of bars and markets.

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Mainland regulation, supposed to prevent money going offshore, bars insurers from investing in overseas equities, from putting more than 15% into Chinese equities and from investing in corporate bonds with low investment grades.

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Around us, stores in the Chinese-dominated downtown remain shuttered, the windows above blank and empty behind bars of iron.

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However, it looks like Chinese investors are also plowing huge amounts into bullion (the popular ones are 50 gram and 100 gram bars).

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