As Thomas Chan, of the Chinese Takeaway Association, explains, more recent arrivals filled the resulting labour gap.

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Still, if the people in the Bin Laden compound had wanted an Italian or Chinese takeaway, I think this is where they would have gone.

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Running out of toilet roll and having difficulty contacting a Chinese takeaway have been revealed as some of the 999 calls made to Devon and Cornwall Police in 2012.

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She said imaginative ways of looking at siting post offices have seen businesses opening in a pub in Tintern, a hat shop in north Wales and in a Chinese takeaway in England.

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Fleming, who works as a delivery driver for a Chinese takeaway, was told that only his guilty plea, saving the women from giving evidence at a trial, had saved him from a seven-year prison sentence.

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But the main takeaway from the report is that U.S. companies are in China because of the Chinese consumer, not the American consumer.

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