In January inspectors from the Shanghai Industrial and Commercial Administrative Bureau began an investigation of foreign designer clothing.

ECONOMIST: Foreign brands encounter a new form of protectionism

Zhang Xinmin, an agricultural official with the State Statistical Bureau, argues that dependence on foreign suppliers would impose a burden on the Chinese government and the world market.

ECONOMIST: China

There were a lack of proper Criminal Records Bureau checks on some staff who work with children, especially agency staff and foreign workers.

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This has been particularly true of the Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) , an organization staffed by Foreign Service officers and civil servants who do tours of duty in INR between rotations to overseas and other assignments.

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Per capita income there is 26 percent below the national average, and 27 percent of its residents are foreign-born, more than twice the national average, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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New Census Bureau figures confirm what many Americans can already see with their own eyes: The numbers of their foreign-born neighbors are growing.

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