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The British charity Oxfam launches the biggest appeal of its 60-year history today, asking the public for £20m to help 11 million people suffering from the worst drought in more than a decade in East Africa. The spokesman said the ministry had no idea why it took him so long to come forward, and added: "We're looking forward to hearing his story."Mr Uwano will return to the town of Hirono, 300 miles north of Tokyo, to meet his relatives today.. He ended the war on Sakhalin Island, which was seized and occupied by Russia, and later moved to the Ukraine, where it is thought he married a local woman and raised three children.His last official sighting was in 1958. Six years ago his relatives gave up hope of finding him alive and officially removed his name from their family register.A spokesman for Japan's Health Ministry said he contacted a Japanese embassy in Ukraine last year to ask for help in searching for surviving relatives. He prefers to live off the dividends of his shares in the company* Foxconn also has a subsidiary company that is based in Renfrew in Scotland..

A former soldier with the Japanese army, long presumed dead, came home yesterday 63 years after leaving to fight in the Second World War. Ishinosuke Uwano, 83, arrived at Japan's main international airport with his eldest son Anatoly, who was born in Ukraine, followed by a swarm of reporters asking questions about his mysterious past. Mr Uwano, who looked fit and healthy, said he "felt good but very tired"."I haven't spoken Japanese in 60 years," he said, "and first of all I would like to say konnichiwa [hello]."Mr Uwano was still a teenager when he was drafted into the Imperial Army and sent to the Russian Far East. Foxconn shares have tripled in value since they were listed last year in Hong Kong* Gou pays himself an annual salary, one Taiwanese dollar, slightly less than 2p. Terry Gou, from Taiwan, is listed in 'Forbes' rich list as the 147th richest man in the world* Mr Gou founded Hon Hai Precision, which is the world's largest contract manufacturer and Foxconn is its majority-owned international division. The heart of manufacturing * Shenzhen has been China's biggest exporter since 1993 and state media reckons high-tech exports accounted for almost half of these exports, growing 34 per cent year-on-year* According to China's Commerce Ministry, mainland China's 100 largest exporters in 2004 were electronics manufacturers: 53 of them were foreign-invested companies, 21 of which were Taiwanese* Foxconn's founder. My husband and I have an apartment here," she said, sipping from a Pepsi can emblazoned with a picture of the Arsenal striker Thierry Henry.

Like everywhere else in Shenzhen, no one appears to be over 30 years of age and most are women; 60 per cent of migrant workers are female.Qu Jan, who works for a computer screen company, says: "I like living in Shenzhen because it's warmer than my home town of Jilin. It expects to buy £670m worth of Microsoft software in the next 12 months, including about £112m for the Chinese market.Two decades of growth have given Chinese companies the cash to buy foreign firms and they are coming up with better products.At the Hongti Community Canteen in the Bagualing Industrial Centre in Shenzhen, workers pick up their food at the windows and eat them at long canteen tables. The Chinese government is keen to replicate that kind of productivity.Driving that new approach will be companies such as Lenovo, who few outside, or even inside, the IT industry had heard of before 2004, when it bought IBM's PC business. According to World Bank data, the United States' share of global manufacturing industry has remained consistent at about one quarter of the world total and Japan, too, is still far stronger than China.And it's probably more accurate to discuss China as the world's biggest assembly line at the moment, as there is little "value-added" at a local level for the time being.But China is rising quickly, particularly when it comes to value-added manufacturing, which was reported at £135bn in 1995, £228bn in 2001, and £392bn in 2004, compared to the UK which peaked at £142bn in 1998.By some estimates, about two-thirds of the value of Chinese products is imported and much of what is described as high-tech manufacturing is in fact low-tech assembly of high-tech goods.While the US has seen rising output from its factories, employment in the sector is declining, a sign of how much more productive American workers are than Chinese workers.

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