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From Business Week: Morgan Stanley’s Mary Meeker made a name for herself in the late 1990s as one of the most bullish analysts of the Internet. With investors’ exuberant response in August to the Nasdaq IPO of Chinese search company Baidu (BIDU ), the Chinese Internet market is now attracting a lot of attention from […]
Read MoreFrom Macworld.com: Once a U.S. judge ruled that he could begin work for Google Inc., former Microsoft Corp. executive Kai-Fu Lee didn’t waste any time getting started on his search for researchers to staff Google’s planned research and development (R&D) center in China, a company spokeswoman said Friday… Google, which has a representative office in […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Why is the Beijing agreement different from the worthless “Agreed Framework” Bill Clinton signed in 1994 and North Korea violated (we now know) from the very first day? That agreement was bilateral. This one is six-party, but the major player is China. China conspicuously made itself the locus of the conference […]
Read MoreFrom Interfax: A well-known Chinese BBS (bulletin board system) has decided to put an stop to heated public discussions about grassroots democracy in a southern Chinese village and the brutal murder of four people by a migrant worker in Ningxia. The Yannan Community posted an official announcement on Wednesday September 21, urging all forum administrators […]
Read MoreFrom Knight-Ridder: As oil prices rise, carpooling is taking off in China’s biggest cities. But unlike in the West, authorities appear none too happy about it. Web sites that serve as bulletin boards for those who want to carpool have popped up and are drawing huge amounts of interest… As crude oil prices soar worldwide, […]
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