Investors like its place in the telecommunications technology sector, and the fact that China is catching the smartphone and tablet bug.

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It may be great to be a woman and play chess in Hungary, or even China, but American women have yet to get the bug.

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He travelled around the country and to China, made his own wine, ground his own grain, and drove a gray Volkswagen bug.

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