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...China Development Research Foundation, a think tank that advises the government, just issued a report calling on Beijing to spend 2.6 trillion renminbi (about $370 billion) on social programs by 2012. Lu Mai, the secretary-general of the foundation, notes that the government has started down this road with a new plan to drastically expand health coverage in rural China, where some 800 million of China's 1.3 billion people live. That's a step forward. But China will need to spend more to expand its safety net, as Lu says, and it needs to hurry. If only it could...
...ever did.” “Concert at the Gardner Museum” and “Lobby of a New York Hotel” meditate on the power that even the passer-by can hold over a person. “Imagining the Imprisonment of Ms. Lu Hsiu-Lien” and “Anne Sexton on the Cover” describe not a physical death but a death of the essences of people “from what was done to them,” from incarceration to exploitation. All are reflections...
...decelerating as quickly as it did in the preceding months. Most important, Chinese banks doled out nearly $240 billion of new loans in January - a one-month record. Some economists have taken these data as evidence that China's economy has already bottomed out. Merrill Lynch economists Ting Lu and T.J. Bond reaffirmed their bullish 8% GDP-growth estimate for 2009 in a February report, arguing that the turnaround could begin in the second quarter. "China looks set to be the first major economy to recover from the current global meltdown," they proclaimed...
...representative who served as the campaign manager for the Flores campaign, said that the creation of the committee represented a fulfilment of one of Flores’ campaign promises. Kroop, who is currently the UC’s communications director, will co-chair the committee along with Amanda Lu ’11, the current public relations director. Lu said that the new committee would address the concern that students were not made aware of Council projects. Flores said that the UC Web site will be re-designed as a part of the new outreach initiative. “[Students...
...state aid, though, won't come without strings attached. ProMOS Technologies and Powerchip Semiconductor have asked the government for aid, and were told they must revise their proposals with more measures aimed at improving their competitiveness and technological capabilities. "The government sees this [aid] as an investment," Lu says, "We don't want to just bail out the industry." The result will likely be consolidation of the country's six major DRAM makers into fewer firms, including possible sales of stakes or entire companies to better capitalized foreign rivals. "It looks like merging is the direction of the industry," says...