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News
on December 25, 2007
General Motors is set to begin production next year of a hybrid car in China. The automaker hopes to be able to roll of the new vehicle in time for the Beijing Olympics in August, GM said on Wednesday...
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News
on December 24, 2007
Winding Road and Autoblog are among of several news sources reporting big Christmas news for General Motors in China: GM has become the first international auto maker to sell one millions vehicles in ...
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Internet
on December 23, 2007
In a world where information is a commercial product and providing access to information over the Internet is a major growth industry, is censorship a violation of free trade?
You'd think that qu...
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Outsourcing
on December 19, 2007
Barack Obama: I would stop the import of all toys from China.
I remember in 1992 that Singapore had a problem with its mass rapid transit system. the MRT there is wonderful. But delinquent youths had...
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News
on December 19, 2007
Merrill Lynch got hit. So did UBS and Citigroup. Now Morgan Stanley has announced huge losses as a result of bad decisions in the subprime loan debacle. Morgan Stanley is writing down almost $10 billi...
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Outsourcing
on December 17, 2007
We all know someone whose job used to be in Michigan, Missouri, or Maryland and now their job is in China - and when their job moved, they didn't. So now they're unemployed or under-employed.....
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Internet
on December 16, 2007
I've spent a lot of time and energy keeping track of the umpteen presidential candidates in America over the last year and examining their positions. There's a lot of stupid, even scary, think...
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VC and PE: education and training
on December 16, 2007
Anne Arundel Community College is going to offer entrepreneurs and business people the chance to think a little harder about doing business in China, according to a story in the Baltimore Sun The scho...
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Private Equity
on December 15, 2007
The Times Online says it's bingo!
Gala Coral, a British gambling operator backed by private equity funds, has managed to get a license to operate a bingo club in Hebei Province in China.
It&#...
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Venture Capital
on December 15, 2007
Zero2IPO recently released the China Venture Capital & Private Equity Annual Ranking for 2007 and this year's number one venture capital firm is SAIF Partners.
SAIF Partners describes itself ...
