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...year in everything from punching to "polite conversation and what you should wear in an office." Clients often hire Ding and his students to resolve business disputes that in many countries would be dealt with by the police or resolved in court. He and his crew recently rescued a coal-mine owner in Xi'an who had been kidnapped by a colleague who believed he was owed money. After the rescue, they convinced the victim to make peace with his abductor by paying him $50,000. A real estate developer in Shanghai hired Ding when locals protesting outside his office...
Like Johnny Depp's character in The Libertine? Exactly. The Earl of Rochester could think quite profoundly. He was born a diamond and turned himself into coal. The film is about people's responsibility to their gifts...
DIED. RONG YIREN, 89, the original "red capitalist" who helped open China's economy to the world; in Beijing. Rong, who opted to stay on the mainland after the 1949 communist takeover while other industrialists fled abroad, was forced to sweep streets and haul coal during the Cultural Revolution before he was rehabilitated by Deng Xiaoping to help promote international commerce during the economic reforms of the 1980s. His China International Trust & Investment Corporation became a key player in attracting foreign capital, and although the billionaire was never a member of the Communist Party, he served as China's Vice...
...economy to the world; in Beijing. Rong, who opted to stay on the mainland after the 1949 Communist takeover while other industrialists fled abroad, surrendered his business interests to the state in 1956 and took up a series of prominent government posts. Forced to sweep streets and haul coal during the Cultural Revolution, he was later rehabilitated by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping to help promote international commerce. In 1979 he founded the China International Trust & Investment Corporation (CITIC), a key player in attracting foreign capital to the mainland and investing Chinese funds overseas. Although never a member of the Communist...
...year-old SUV to buy a new hybrid. Most people can't afford to abandon houses built in developments 100 miles out in the countryside when oil was cheap. And although energy and power companies are investing in new technologies, they can't create a massive new infrastructure overnight. Coal liquefaction, nuclear power, wind power--"all of these things need an enormous lead time," says Heinberg. The problem with the free market, in short, is that while it may sort things out over the long run, people have to cope in the short run. "Price signals," he adds, "come much...