From International Herald Tribune: The eBay decision to close its Web site in China and instead take a 49 percent stake in an electronic-commerce joint venture with TOM Online is the latest sign that local knowledge and connections matter in the Chinese market. While TOM Online has suffered a series of commercial setbacks during the […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: One afternoon in mid-November, hundreds of farmers surrounded a government building in Dongzhou, a tiny Chinese fishing village northeast of Hong Kong. They were protesting corruption among local officials — one of thousands of such protests across China each year. But according to the government and multiple accounts from villagers, […]
Read MoreFrom Time Asia: Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew spoke with Time magazine reporters TIME: The coming East Asia summit is an unprecedented gathering of Asia’s leaders. Do you see it as an epochal moment for the region? LEE: It happened in an unplanned, almost accidental, way. Abdullah Badawi, the Prime Minister of Malaysia, offered […]
Read MoreFrom China Law Prof Blog: Here’s an interesting commentary by Liang Jing (梁京) on the Chen Guangcheng case. Translation below, courtesy of David Kelly. When I read Yuan Weishi’s article in Southern Weekend criticizing...
Read MoreFrom USA Today: At the North Pole, the elves are bustling to fill Santa’s sack with toys for the world’s children. In the real world, Christmas looks like Dongguan: a grey, industrial city in South China, where mile upon mile of factories house mile upon mile of uniformed young women toiling on production lines. Within […]
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