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Mandarin compulsory for some Portugal kids

Mon, Nov 03, 2014 - 5:50 AM

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FIVE hundred years after the Portuguese became the first Europeans to establish sea trade with China, a town in northern Portugal is counting on its youth to secure a new foothold in the Asian giant.

The small industrial town of Sao Joao da Madeira, Portugal's shoe capital...

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