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From the Washington Post: The Chinese government released a prominent investigative reporter from prison Tuesday, even as it has been intensifying a crackdown on the press. The early release appeared intended to mollify the Bush administration, which had included the journalist on a short list of political prisoners whose cases it raises regularly with Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom AFX, via Forbes.com: The number of telephone subscribers in China is expected to top 820 mln this year, up from 746 mln at the end of 2005, the China Daily reported, citing figures from the Ministry of Information Industry. Fixed-line subscribers are expected to increase by 30 mln this year, while mobile phone subscribers […]
Read MoreFrom a special Business Week report on Doing Business in China: Small-business owners looking to move into the Middle Kingdom, take note: Despite the allure of cheap labor and a staggeringly large market, successfully setting up shop in China might be one of the biggest challenges your company will ever face.‚Ä®‚Ä®First, there’s a long history […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: Cantonese, a sharp, cackling dialect full of slang and exaggerated expressions, was never the dominant language of China. But it came to dominate the Chinatowns of North America because the first immigrants came from the Cantonese-speaking southern province of Guangdong, where China first opened its ports to foreigners centuries ago. […]
Read MoreFrom Red Herring: Remember Peter Chung? Back in May 2001, Mr. Chung was a 24-year-old Princeton University grad posted to Seoul by the Carlyle Group and living, by his own account, quite large. A week and a half into his new buy-side job, he emailed home telling friends about his opulent digs, about riding around […]
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