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...exports cheaper?when other Asian nations did. Had Beijing followed the herd and taken export markets from its Asian competitors, the economic recovery in Asia would have been delayed. But as the value of the greenback has slipped on international markets, Chinese exports have become even cheaper. Hence the clamor from some of those who directly compete with China for the country to revalue the yuan upward?just as there was pressure on Japan to revalue...
...military commander who had seized control of the country. "In many ways the voice of Thailand's so-called civil society was first heard and gained power on radio," says Sunai Phasuk, a political scientist at Bangkok's Thammasat University. "It's proven to be very powerful, and politicians clamor to get their message across on the airwaves...
...nudity-barred simulation of Hugh Hefner's life. Clad in the trademark silk robe, your aim is to build a mansion cool enough to attract pin-ups and celebrity interviews for your magazine. The better the sales, the better your mansion gets, and the more celebs clamor to get in. Unlike Hef, you get to snap the shutter at the photo shoots. The game was unveiled at the Playboy Mansion itself - which, alas, only served to point out how far videogames have to go to truly catch up with reality...
...disease--an almost revolutionary policy shift for a leadership structure that feels more comfortable with obfuscation than openness. On Wednesday, Hu appointed Wu Yi, a tough-talking former Trade Minister, to take over responsibility for the government's fight against SARS. Some China watchers believe that the public clamor for transparency may create an opportunity for Hu, a career bureaucrat with liberal tendencies, to push for the kinds of sweeping political reforms that party elders have long resisted. "This is his chance to grab the support of the people and stand up on his own," says Bao Tong, a former...
...talk-shop and the decisions that count will be made in Washington. If the other three had any say whatsoever, the "road map" would have been published a year ago. And the Quartet was only invented as a fig leaf to cover the Bush administration from the urgent clamor among Arab and European allies for Washington to do something about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...