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Naked official Pang Jiayu in the happier days that existed before he was sentenced to 12 years for corruption (image source)
According to China’s Ministry of Commerce, around 4,000 corrupt officials fled the mainland between 1978 and 2003, taking more than $50 billion with them. Before doing so, many [...]
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Paul Denlinger has a great post up on the China Tracker blog, entitled, “For Apple, The Best China Strategy Was Not Having One.” I have known and respected Paul since forever, particularly on issues relating to China’s technology and internet sectors.
Paul’s post extols Apple’s [...]
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A couple of days ago, I did a post, entitled, “Defining State Secrets In China. What Stratfor Says….” In that post, I referred to a a Stratfor April 29, 2010, article, entitled, “Telecom and State Secrets” and extolled it for the job it did in helping attorneys issue [...]
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The baronial Writer’s Bar at Raffles Hotel, all marble columns, satin drapes and bone china, would, one supposes, elicit curt approval from the late Duchess of Bedford. For it was she, 180 years ago (at about 5 o’clock), who first instructed her servants to prepare tea and cake to [...]
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Partner problems in the Beijing food and beverage scene are no rarity and the newest case involves The Kro’s Nest where it looks like the pie has hit the fan. The person most associated with this pizza chain, Kro, says that he is being pushed out of the business [...]
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I took a 915 bus out towards the airport last week.
Leaving Dongzhimen bus statition, there was a bus at least once every 5 minutes. Coming back from Shunyi a few hours later, there seemed to be a bus only once every 15-20 minutes.
Does not compute.
Now, I suppose there might [...]
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I am going to a big wedding party this weekend, which might well have a chance of making it into a list like this one, but….. well, I wouldn’t want to risk offending my hosts if it should only end up in the lower reaches of the ‘Top 10‘ [...]
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I’ve been here five months now, and am finally starting to feel fairly well settled in. The advantages over my old pad are becoming more and more apparent.
Reasons Why I Prefer My New Apartment
1) Lower rent
Well, in fact it’s only 100rmb lower than my old rent; at least until [...]
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Submitted by admin on May 8, 2010 – 15:29
Details and exact dates are limited but according to MacWorld the iPad will [...]