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Melinda Liu
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Dec 29, 2008 05:53 PM
After the Quake, a Tale of Petty Inhumanity and Its Price by Melinda Liu. Shortly after China's devastating May 12 earthquake, which killed nearly 70,000 people, I was intrigued by a terse Xinhua News Agency report. The Communist Party secretary of Unity...
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Melinda Liu
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Dec 25, 2008 10:14 AM
We had a number of fascinating interviews during the recent China visit of Newsweek's international business and economics editor Rana Foroohar. One of the most intriguing was with Michael Pettis, the Peking U finance professor who also is a familiar...
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Mark Starr
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Dec 23, 2008 06:10 PM
From Bored to Bedazzled, In Eight Races by Mark Starr. My favorite venue at the Summer Olympics in Beijing was the Water Cube, especially at night, when its lights bathed the pathways in soft but colorful purple hues. But stuck inside for nine days, with...
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Melinda Liu
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Dec 19, 2008 05:34 AM
The 30th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping's historic economic reforms is upon us. And the Chinese government is making a pretty big deal of it. Today the official state-run Xinhua news agency summarized a speech made by president Hu Jintao to mark the date....
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Mary Hennock
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Dec 15, 2008 05:49 PM
Boosting consumption is key to economic recovery. But that will take fixing a disastrous health system. by Mary Hennock This first appeared in the magazine issue dated Dec 22, 2008 This month marks the 30th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms...
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Newsweek
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Dec 10, 2008 10:05 AM
The following interview with Industrial and Commercial Bank of China chairman Jiang Jianqing first appeared in the magazine dated Jan. 15, 2009: The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China has broken lots of records. In 2006 the bank went public in what...
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Melinda Liu
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Dec 6, 2008 05:46 PM
Today I and a couple Newsweek colleagues had lunch with Victor Yuan, whose Horizon consultancy conducts China-wide social surveys and market research on all kinds of topics. Our conversation turned to the growing number of factory bankruptcies and unpaid...
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Newsweek
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Dec 2, 2008 08:26 PM
As lay-offs keep mounting, financial journalist Fergus Naughton reports on why weak implementation and enforcement of China's labor and bankruptcy laws are adding to workers' jitters: The latest rash of factory closures and worker lay-offs may prove a...
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Melinda Liu
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Dec 1, 2008 07:24 AM
Crooked cadres who take the money and run are not new in China. But as the economy slumps, grassroots resentment against official corruption seems to be growing. In particular Chinese Netizens are buzzing about “naked officials” (or luo ti zuo guan ,...
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