Andy Xie, an economist at Morgan Stanley, calculates that, in real terms, the yuan has risen by 40-50% against both the dollar and the euro since 1993.

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Tommy Xie works as an economist in Singapore for OCBC Bank.

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Xie Lihua, editor of Rural Women Knowing All, an immensely successful magazine (fancy a readership of 50m-60m?), describes how she helped to rescue two readers from Sichuan province who had been kidnapped and married off to men in Guangdong.

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And the women's individual competition will conclude with an all-Chinese clash between Zhang Ning and Xie Xingang.

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"It has not been an easy transition, " says a report by Andy Xie, regional economist at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.

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And it also helped Xie that he had started Cirtex, a successful web hosting company in an intensely competitive industry.

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Xie Feng of the Chinese Embassy cast Monday's development as part of an era of increased U.S.-Chinese cooperation.

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