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...Beijing's Forbidden City when he suffers a creative drought and can't even work out where to place the camera. He falls seriously ill, and his last wish, as he slips into a coma, is to have a "comedy funeral" in the Forbidden City. Accordingly, his cameraman YoYo (Ge You) markets the funeral as a globally televised event, auctioning ad space to Chinese companies. Huh? Precisely. Big Shot's Funeral, a comedic fable about the clash of cultures, isn't like anything you've seen before...
...like a buy. Foreign investments in the country surged 32% to $28 billion in the fiscal year ending last March, according to just-released government figures. In 2001, foreigners accounted for almost a third of the mergers and acquisitions, says Thomson Financial, up from only 13% the year before. GE Capital, investor Wilbur Ross and the private-equity arms of firms such as J.P. Morgan are committing billions of dollars. "Despite all the uncertainties, there comes a point where you just can't ignore the opportunities here," says John Lewis, a partner at J.P. Morgan in Tokyo...
According to the Journal story, concern for the neutrality of Wetlaufer’s article was not even brought into question until Welch’s wife called Wetlaufer to ask whether she thought she could write an objective article given her relationship with the former GE chair...
...like a buy. Foreign investments in the country surged 32% to $28 billion in the fiscal year ending last March, according to just-released government figures. In 2001 foreigners accounted for almost a third of the mergers and acquisitions, says Thomson Financial, up from only 13% the year before. GE Capital, investor Wilbur Ross and the private-equity arms of firms such as J.P. Morgan are committing billions of dollars. "Despite all the uncertainties, there comes a point where you just can't ignore the opportunities here," says John Lewis, a partner at J.P. Morgan in Tokyo...
...waiting around for lawmakers to make the new rules. Investors went ahead Monday with their own brand of accounting and disclosure reform - knee-jerk selling. Companies with dark accounting clouds (Tyco, Global Crossing, Enterasys Networks), questionable earnings details (Amazon.com) or simply lots of complicated ways of making money (GE) all took baths Monday as "Enronitis" fueled a 220-point selloff of the Dow and a 55-point drop in the NASDAQ...