Although I am loathe to denigrate an entire class of people, or in this case businessmen, I would like to echo the sentiment of Vancouver Mike. I've been working in China for many years and I've yet to be cheated as slickly as I have been by a Taiwanese businessman. I would suggest that they have so successfully exploited Mainland Chinese workers for so long now that scamming comes natural to many of them. Moreover, problems with EFL mills in Taiwan are as rampant as in PR China - it's only natural that they would cast an opportunistic eye in this direction, and they have been doing so for several years now.

Unless you are very familiar with an organization run by Taiwanese businessmen, having done the necessary research, you would be well advised to stay well clear of it. Good post Vancouver Mike)...........

For your perusal:

Chinese workers and farmers fight exploitation

3 September 1997

By Eva Cheng

.....................about 300 workers of a Taiwanese-owned company in Nanhai, also in Guangdong, staged a sit-in outside the Labour Bureau office to demand three months of unpaid wages, totalling 300,000 yuan (about A$50,000). The mainly women workers, who worked 10-16 hour days with no days off, were being paid at only half the normal rate for manual workers in the region.

For an in - depth examination of Taiwanese business practices in China:
Making Capitalism in China
By You-tien Hsing
Included in this book is a detailed analysis of the exploitation of Chinese workers by Taiwanese manufacturers. As many people know, Dongguan in Guongzhou is pretty much the shoe manufacturing capital of China. A huge percentage of those factories are owned by Taiwanese businessmen who care little about the well-being of their workers or the environment of China. Dongguan is one of the most polluted cities I've been to in China.