2009/1/26 apptech <apptech@paradise.net.nz>:
>> For
>> time-sensitive stuff, I would definitely go with a US-based
>> manufacturer --
>> Advanced Circuits lets students buy PCBs for $33 each, and they don't take
>> three week vacations.
>
> Chinese new year is usually 10 days.
> And it's by far the largest holiday taken. Outside that period you are
> liable to et them to work 8 days a week, sometimes 9.
>
> That said, it depends how westernised the firm has got. Some work Sundays
> without a qualm while others actually do do 40 hour weeks. Then others I've
> seen do 7 day 70 hour weeks ... .
>
> FWIW: I'll be back in China just after the new year celebrations end.
>
>
>
>      Russell
>
>

Russel

So will I - I'm in Shenzhen from the 5th to about the 18th, how about you?

Richard
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