From the 2000s many Chinese have settled and started up small businesses, while at least as many have come as workforce for large ( construction or other ) enterprises.

In the mid 2000s Cilvaringz, Ali B and Raymzter have commercially been successful and Lange Frans & Baas B have had multiple # 1 hits.

The new generation of DJs and musicians of the 2000s who have fallen in love with both Kuti's material and other rare releases have made compilations and remixes of these recordings, thus re-introducing the genre to new generations of listeners and fans of afropop and groove.

By the early 2000s, the CD largely replaced the audio cassette player as standard equipment in new automobiles, with 2010 being the final model year for any car in the US to have a factory-equipped cassette player.

In the 2000s, biopics such as Ali ( 2001 ), Frida ( 2002 ), 8 Mile ( 2002 ), Ray ( 2004 ), Walk the Line ( 2005 ), and Milk ( 2008 ) have become popular among filmmakers.

In the 1990s and 2000s, many drummers in popular music and indie music have reverted back to basic four piece drum set standard.

Today, only nine remain, and this number may have decreased due to the Emsworth fishing and oyster trade dying down, or to the consolidation of the pub trade in the 1990s and 2000s.

A few successful remixes of the song during the 1990s and 2000s along with new versions of the song by Lonnie Gordon, Diana Ross, Chantay Savage, rock group Cake and others as well as constant recurrent airplay on nearly all Soft AC and Rhythmic format radio stations have helped to keep the song in the mainstream.

However, in the 1990s and 2000s, Hammond enthusiasts have come to prize the sound of tonewheel crosstalk as a " vintage " or " authentic " aspect of the Hammond's sound.

Several pentaquark candidates were found in the early 2000s, but upon further review these states have now been established as non-existent.

From 1997 to 2004, Michigan was listed as the only state to top the 10, 000 mark for the number of major new developments ; however, the effects of the late 2000s recession have slowed the state's economy.

With the creation of MINIX 3, and its transition to a graphical interface, some commercial software and hardware developers have started to implement some systems with MINIX in the late 2000s.

Nevertheless, improvements have been noted in the early 2000s.

Since the early 2000s, dredging machines have operated at the Murray Mouth, moving sand from the channel to maintain a minimal flow from the sea and into the Coorong's lagoon system.

Niger and Mali have fought related Tuareg insurgencies in their respective northern territories in the 1990s and mid 2000s.

The use of DNA microarrays that have come into widespread use in the late 1990s and early 2000s is more akin to the reverse procedure, in that they involve the use of isolated DNA fragments affixed to a substrate, and hybridization with a probe made from cellular RNA.

In several interviews given in the late 2000s, Paula claimed to have been left in debilitating pain after a 1992 car accident and a 1993 plane crash that required 15 spinal surgeries and which left her dependent on pain medication for years.

Since the early 2000s calling card service providers have introduced calling accounts not associated with a physical card.

However, evidence throughout history and even during the 1990s and 2000s have shown that the PLO leadership considered any peace made with Israel to be temporary until the dream of Israel's destruction could be realized.

While some studies have historically found extremely low weight estimates for Quetzalcoatlus, as low as for a 10-meter individual, a majority of estimates published since the 2000s have been higher, and the tend toward.

However the collapse of the Communist regime in 1989, reforms in the 2000s ( decade ) and its recent entry to the European Union have led to an improved economic outlook.

Atari also used the game for its other late ' 90s and 2000s anthology series.

In the early 2000s, BBC Two also started simulcasting the channel, although the weekend morning show Weekend 24 had been simulcast on the channel in the early days.

The school voucher question in the United States has also received a considerable amount of judicial review in the early 2000s.

The 2000s also saw an increase in the number of individual competitive awards won by French artists at the Cannes Festival, for direction ( Tony Gatlif, Exils, 2004 ), screenplay ( Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, Look at Me, 2004 ), female acting ( Isabelle Hupert, The Piano Teacher, 2001 ; Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist, 2009 ) and male acting ( Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila and Bernard Blancan, Days of Glory, 2006 ).

He has also been voiced in animation by Jackson Beck in the 1960s series The New Adventures of Superman, Stan Jones in the 1970s / 1980s Super Friends franchise, Michael Bell in the 1988 Superman animated series, and by Clancy Brown in the 1990s / 2000s DC animated universe, as well as a 2007 episode of The Batman and the 2009 direct-to-DVD animated feature Superman / Batman: Public Enemies, among others.

In the early 2000s, there also were plans to construct a new rail line between Bamako and Kouroussa and Kankan in Guinea.

Other new North American pop punk bands, though often critically dismissed, also achieved major sales in the first decade of the 2000s.

The BBC also produced several children's science fiction shows in the late 1990s to mid 2000s ( decade ).

Measurements made in the latter part of the 2000s and based also on observation of infrared spectral lines, have suggested that sunspot activity may again be disappearing, possibly leading to a new minimum.

They used the same graphics subsystem and Ethernet as the 2000s, but could also use up to 12 " geometry engines ", the first widespread use of hardware graphics accelerators.

In the 2000s, the People's Republic of China initiated a successful manned spaceflight program, while the European Union, Japan, and India have also planned future manned space missions.

Two free tabloid newspapers were also introduced in the early 2000s, ' Metro and Sp! ts, mostly for distribution in public transportation.

In the early 2000s ( decade ), U-M also faced declining state funding due to state budget shortfalls.

In the early 2000s, tensions also developed with neighboring states Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan.

Hip hop music also saw a decline in the mainstream during the late 2000s because of electronic music's rising popularity.

Israel ( 1960s ) and North Korea ( 2000s ) are also thought to have developed stocks of nuclear weapons, and made the political decision to refrain from openly acknowledging them to the present time.

Several computer science buildings, such as Newell Simon Hall, also were established, renovated or renamed in the early 2000s ( decade ).

Furthermore, by the early 2000s, networked gaming via computers and then consoles across the Internet had also appeared, replacing the venue of head to head competition and social atmosphere once provided solely by arcades.

It is also still used in ads showing the network's current stars getting slimed from all sides in slow motion, and is used to slime the winner at the end of the Nick game show BrainSurge, which debuted in 2009 ( slime, as well as pies, was also used as a prize, rather than a penalty, in Nickelodeon's live daily game show Slime Time Live in the early 2000s ).

Contemporary Chinese art also saw record sales throughout the 2000s.

Since the early 2000s, it has also appeared in white ( sometimes red ) on a textured or coloured background.

It may also refer to other periods, such as the mid 1980s – 2000s period, contemporary with The Great Moderation.

Something For Kate ( or SFK as they are also known ) is one of the most popular and enduring Australian alternative / rock bands of the 1990s and 2000s, garnering nominations for 11 ARIA Music Awards throughout its career.

It has also garnered considerable national attention from its recent success in these sports: in particular, three-time Division I NCAA Football champion Appalachian State Mountaineers, who stunned the fifth-ranked Michigan Wolverines 34 – 32 on September 1, 2007 ; and from the Davidson Wildcats, who reached the Elite Eight in the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament by upsetting power programs Gonzaga ( a mid-major school which became a power program in the 2000s ), Georgetown and Wisconsin.