The Italian town of Prato is home to the largest concentration of Chinese residents in Europe. In this textile center, the Chinese have created a parallel, off-the-books economy — hiring illegal ...

The Italian town of Prato is home to the largest concentration of Chinese residents in Europe. In this textile center, the Chinese have created a parallel, off-the-books economy — hiring illegal ...

A militant union is escalating an unusual wave of strikes in the city of Prato — Italy's so-called textile capital — where ...

Prato, an Italian textile center, is now home to about 3,000 businesses run by Chinese, stoking resentment. Skip to content Skip to site index.

The Prato industrial zone now accounts for more than 30% of Italy's textile imports from China. "More than half of Italian-owned businesses in the industrial zone have gone to the wall over the ...

Prato's history in textiles stretches back centuries; it even has a museum devoted to textiles. But as Italian companies have struggled, the Chinese have prospered.

During the Renaissance, Prato was renowned for its wools and silks, and to this day, one of Prato's major industries is textiles. But this has grown to include things like alpaca and camel wools ...

When the flourishing Prato textile industry needed cheap labor in the 1980s, Italians knew where to turn, because they had established relationships in outsourcing to Wenzhou, in the Zhejiang ...

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 9 - Thousands of umbrella-toting residents and tourists braved the rain to mark the Chinese New Year in Prato Sunday, the Tuscan city with the highest percentage of Chinese ...

The Italian town of Prato is home to the largest concentration of Chinese residents in Europe. In this textile center, the Chinese have created a parallel, off-the-books economy — hiring illegal ...

This month, NPR is examining the many ways China is expanding its reach in the world — through investments, infrastructure, military power and more. In this installment, a tale of two Chinatowns ...