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...stocks trade at prices comparable to those of Asian companies listed on other regional bourses. In fact, some of China's smaller manufacturing and textiles companies are still relatively undervalued. "Judging from history, the stock market doesn't bust when the buying is concentrated on blue-chip names," says Lan Xue, head of China research for Citigroup. "It's when the buying goes into the second line, third line, fourth line [companies]-the speedy names-this is what would get me more worried." Xue predicts the bull market will continue at least another one to two years...
...stocks trade at prices comparable to those of Asian firms listed on other regional bourses. In fact, some of China's smaller manufacturing and textile companies are still relatively undervalued. "Judging from history, the stock market doesn't bust when the buying is concentrated on blue-chip names," says Lan Xue, head of China research for Citigroup. "It's when the buying goes into the second line, third line, fourth line [companies]--the speedy names--this is what would get me more worried." Xue predicts that the bull market will continue for at least one to two years...
Call it the Year of the Panda. In 2006 a record 31 pandas were born in captivity in China, triple the number in 2000. Zoo Atlanta welcomed a baby panda too: Mei Lan (Chinese for "Atlanta Beauty") was born Sept. 6. "The giant panda's safe," said Zhang Hemin, head of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda...
...experts get these love-shy mammals to mate? Mei Lan was a product of artificial insemination. But conservationists are using other methods to encourage natural breeding. Unpopular females have been scented with the urine of popular rivals, so that a male thinks he's mating with a more attractive female. Zhang has shown them videos of pandas breeding in the wild--basically, panda porn. He even gave one male Viagra--which didn't work so well. "We'll never do that again," he said. "The panda was excited for 24 hours...
...good example of the new kind of venue to be found - blending northern-Chinese substance with an international style more commonly found in China's worldlier south. Housed in a crumbling former state schoolhouse near the Workers' Stadium, the striking, design-driven watering hole and accompanying restaurants (Lan Na Thai and the Indian Hazara) cost $1.9 million to develop. As in Face Shanghai (there are also Face bars in Jakarta and Bangkok), eclectic pan-Asian chic is the order of the decorative day, incorporating a controlled mishmash of antiques and artworks from across the region. "Beijing...