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...China's rapid rise been more evident than last week, when two big Chinese companies entered the auctions for two high-profile U.S. competitors: Haier, well known among college students as the maker of small refrigerators popular in dorm rooms, is teaming with a U.S. private-equity firm to bid for Maytag, the struggling appliance maker based in Iowa. And 19 years after getting his M.A. in petroleum engineering from U.S.C., Fu wants to own Unocal, once the parent of those Union 76 gas stations. The company he heads, China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC), topped a $16.5 billion bid...
...bid for Unocal is by far the most audacious move any Chinese company has made. CNOOC, whose market value is only about $22 billion (compared with $119 billion for Chevron), offered about $18.5 billion, or $67 a share, for Unocal. Since it's an all-cash offer, the Chinese company would have to take on a huge chunk of debt to finance the deal. Fu insists that no one in the government pushed the company to buy Unocal, and sources close to CNOOC's board tell TIME that Fu, not some shadowy string-pulling figure in Beijing, has been...
...Winning bid for three paintings, one below, by chimp Congo, who died...
...Winning bid for a bar of soap an artist claims to have made out of fat liposuctioned from Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi...
...Winning bid for three paintings (one shown above) by a chimpanzee named Congo who died...