Deep South

• After divorcing his wife, who had cheated on him, he joined an online dating agency that connected Western men with Chinese women through translator-assisted email exchanges.
• Yet Robert could barely afford to travel to China to meet the women with whom he exchanged emails.
• Across the ocean, several Chinese women had gathered at their local dating agency, waiting to speak with their translator.
• I wanted to know why, despite China’s meteoric economic and cultural rise, so many women – especially those who were financially well-off – were still looking to the West for love and companionship.

Options narrow with age

• There’s the stereotypical Western media representation of “mail-order brides” – young women who marry older Western men to escape poverty.
• But contrary to this stereotype, the majority of women enrolled at the dating agencies where I conducted research were middle-aged and divorced.
• None of them felt coerced, and they cited age discrimination in China as their No.
• Many newly wealthy men – even those who were already married – started seeking younger, more sexualized women.
• After years of being out of the workforce, their lavish consumption habits were at odds with their weakened labor market prospects.

Spurned by the service sector

• Many of them had been laid off from state-owned factories in the 1990s, when over 30 million workers lost their jobs.
• These women struggled to find new work in China’s service sector, which prioritizes hiring young, good-looking women.
• Daisy, a 43-year-old, felt fortunate to have secured a job at a luxury department store, but she feared for her future job prospects.
• Without access to health insurance, retirement benefits or other social safety net programs, many of these women were desperate to leave China.

Mixed marriage experiences

• By comparison, 26 of the 31 financially struggling women married and moved abroad.
• This is because many financially secure women were used to dating wealthy Chinese businessmen and politicians, so they often rejected their working-class Western suitors.
• After meeting these men face to face, they realized that they lacked the refined taste, lifestyle and sexual experience of their Chinese lovers.
• She moved into his trailer and worked as a masseuse on the side to send money back to her sons in China.

• VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 10, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Deep-South Resources Inc. ("Deep-South" or “the Company") (TSX-V: DSM) announces that it has appointed the MSA Group (“MSA”) of South Africa to produce an updated National Instrument (“NI”) 43-101 Mineral Resource Estimate for the Company’s 100%-owned advanced Haib copper project located in the south of Namibia.
• The mandate of MSA was interrupted when the Ministry of Mines refused to approve the renewal of the Haib Copper license.
• The Mineral Resource Estimate and subsequent technical report will follow the completion of the drilling program that was stopped in June 2021.
• There are still 5,200 meters of drilling to be completed.

• VANCOUVER, BC, June 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Deep-South Resources Inc. ("Deep-South" or the Company) (TSXV: DSM) announces that since the verdict ordering the Ministry of Mines and Energy of Namibia ("Ministry") to re-open the renewal application procedure of 2021, the Haib Copper Licence EPL 3140 has been reinstated by the Ministry with the status "pending renewal".
• As the licence has been reinstated, pending renewal on the Mining Cadastre of the Ministry, officials of the Ministry have invited the Company to resume exploration work at any time.
• However, Management considers it is prudent to await the renewal decision before resuming work.
• Pierre Leveille, President & CEO of Deep-South stated: "We are confident that the licence will be renewed in a timely manner.

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• A dedication ceremony for the stamps was held today at the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival in Woodburn, OR.
• Tulip Blossoms will be issued as Forever stamps in booklets of 20, as well as coils of 3,000 and 10,000.
• News of the Tulip Blossoms stamps is being shared with the hashtag #TulipBlossomsStamps.