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...The volume of keyword searches using the Chinese term for “lay-offs” (caiyuan) shows a marked upturn in late 2018 and early this year....
...“Apple is such a Goliath and has a good image, so people wouldn’t imagine that Apple could possibly infringe on our intellectual property rights,” said Xiao Caiyuan, a lawyer for Proview at Guangdong Guanghe...
...“Caiyuan gungun” has been virtually banned because it sounds exactly the same as the phrase meaning “laid off and discarded”....
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