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From the New York Times: Novels are routinely adapted for the screen. What is rare is for a best-selling writer to direct the movie version of his own book. Dai Sijie’s experience, though, was still more unusual. He was a filmmaker who turned to fiction because his movie career was faltering. Now the worldwide success […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: Wal-Mart revealed its ambitious expansion plans to Chinese journalists on July 25, just four days after the People’s Bank of China decided to abandon the yuan’s decade-old peg to the dollar. The move will lift the Chinese currency’s value by 2.1% initially — and perhaps by much more over the long term. […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times (free registration required): China’s revaluation of its currency last week may roil the economies of its Asian neighbors in the short term but could be a boon for the region in the long run. Analysts say China’s move toward a market-based currency system may stimulate trade and consumer demand in […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: With the fourth round of six-party talks finally under way in Beijing after 13 months of hiatus, commentators are attributing their resumption to the intensive diplomatic maneuvering in the past few weeks in which Washington recognized North Korea as a sovereign country, Seoul offered supplies of electricity to the North should nuclear […]
Read MoreFrom UPI, via MENAFN.com: The announcement last week that Google, the world’s premier search engine, had chosen Beijing as the location for its eighth research and development center marks an important transformation from the virtual to real world for billions, whether measured in people or revenue potential. The Mountain View, Calif., firm had good reasons […]
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