Word: huang
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...Huang Jianhua's given name means "building China," but the sports promoter, who goes by the English name Ken, may be more interested in building U.S. basketball. According to basketball sources, the Chinese-born Huang is brokering a deal between the Cleveland Cavaliers and a Hong Kong real estate and telecommunications conglomerate called New World Development to buy up to a 15% minority stake in the National Basketball Association (NBA) franchise and its sports arena. The Cavs, who are currently battling the Orlando Magic for the Eastern Conference title, boast this season's most valuable player, LeBron James...
Other: Jeremiah Hendren, Ana Huang...
...Asian at City Hall or in the State House?’” Yoon said. During his speech, Yoon yielded the floor to Harvard students representing an initiative to bring a temporary storefront library to Chinatown, a neighborhood which has lacked a library since 1956. Weijie Huang ’09, at the Kong to promote the library project, said that although Cambridge residents cannot vote in Boston elections, he thought last night’s event was important because it reached a student population that sends many volunteers to Boston through the Phillips Brooks House Association. Yoon...
...more balanced economy, one that is less dependent upon consumer demand from the U.S. and Europe for growth. "The biggest problem with the state-centric growth model is it does not put much income into the pockets of the average Chinese and therefore it does not raise consumption," says Huang. "A year or two from now, suppose that the U.S. does not resume its previous pace of consumption -which is very likely- then the huge state-sector investments will create another round of excess capacity...
...Huang also worries that by making state-owned enterprises a priority for stimulus efforts, the government could undermine the productivity gains made by China's increasingly competitive private sector. He says that it is "quite likely that productivity growth will completely disappear this year ... then all you have is this brute-force investment growth which always leads to a crash...