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...doesn't publicly disclose financial results.) The more direct competitor to eBay, called Taobao (?searching for treasure? in Mandarin) isn't yet profitable, but according to Yang is a ?great franchise in the making.? Both sites were started and are run by 40-year-old internet entrepreneur Jack Ma, who will remain in charge. ?This is definitely an arrangement where we think have great assets coming together, but this (deal) would not have happened without Jack and his team,? says Yang. ?They'll continue to run things as they...
...finish its routine at the S.M.U. camp, Kelsie gets the St. Pius squad and all the other squads to chant "Good job! Good job!" to encourage the rival team. Later, when asked if she can think of any negative effects of cheering, she's quick with a "No, ma'am." Says Kelsie: "Everybody wants to be a cheerleader, and when you are one, all the little girls look up to you. But we don't think we're better than the other girls because we're cheerleaders...
...ELECTED. MA YING-JEOU, 55, mayor of Taipei; as chairman of Taiwan's opposition Kuomintang (KMT), in the first leadership election in the party's 93-year history; in Taipei. The Hong Kong-born, Harvard-educated Ma beat out the speaker of the legislature, Wang Jin-pyng, in a contest to take the reins of the once dominant KMT, which has lost two consecutive elections to President Chen Shui-bian's pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party. The KMT, buoyed by outgoing chairman Lien Chan's recent high-profile tour of mainland China, hopes that Ma will steer the party back...
...ARRESTED. CARY MA, 41, CEO of Moulin Global Eyecare, the world's third largest eyewear producer; on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud; in Hong Kong. Ma transformed the small eyeglasses shop founded by his father?one of four others also arrested?into a global empire that became a model for ambitious Chinese businesses trying to break into the U.S. and Europe. Creditors forced the company into liquidation last month following the unexpected resignation in April of its auditors over financial irregularities and the suspension of trading of its shares. The five have since been released on bail...
...addressing the judge as "Ma...