Suriname Ji Shen Forestry & Timber Industry (S.J.S.) timber yard on the highway into the interior from the capital of Paramaribo. Suriname. SJS was founded in 1999 by Chinese national Hio Sjauw Rick Chou from Jilin Province and has partners in Hong Kong and Taiwan. According to "Chinese New Migrants in Suriname: The Inevitability of Ethnic Performing" by Paul Tjon Sie Fat, most of the workers are migrants from Liaoning and Jilin Provinces. The photographer's personal observation confirms their Chinese national status versus being ethnic Chinese-Surinamese. It was discovered by Suriname tax authorities in 2002 that that SJS had evaded paying US$3 million in export duties. According to a SJS spokesperson, the company obtained a loan from the Bank of China and backing from the Jilin provincial government for the overseas logging venture...