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...Terenzio's job is to make it even better. As a part-time adviser to CCTV International's 24-hour English-language news channel, the independent producer is the first foreigner charged with putting an internationally friendly face on the mainland's propaganda machine. As if that weren't odd enough, his salary is paid by News Corp.-the global media conglomerate whose U.S.-based news channel, Fox News, is widely perceived as unabashedly pro-American and whose chairman, Rupert Murdoch, once infuriated China's leaders by stating that satellite-TV systems posed a threat to "totalitarian regimes everywhere...
...Terenzio, who covered four wars for ABC News, thought offering in-depth coverage of the mainland in the U.S. had promise, given China's growing economic importance. "Cable operators should salivate to carry the only channel dedicated to China," he says. But the news program needed a major overhaul. Soon after he took the job, Terenzio installed a satellite dish atop his Los Angeles home and pointed it at the CCTV satellite so that he could assess the task at hand...
...countries where there is little policing of the pharmaceutical trade, the chances of walking into a drugstore and being sold a fake are surprisingly high. Consumers living in Southeast Asia face a 1 in 10 chance of buying a counterfeit, cautions the IFPMA. The situation is worse in mainland China, where consumers have a fifty-fifty chance of buying fake versions of some types of over-the-counter medications. And for those seeking top-selling (and hence much copied) prescription drugs, fakes may be outnumbering the real products by as much as 8 to 1, according to the IFPMA. "There...
...technologies such as digital watermarks and computerized ID chips to thwart counterfeiting. But health officials say consumers need to be aware of the problem and protect themselves by carefully scrutinizing the drugs they buy. Meanwhile, attempts to choke supplies off at the source are increasing, at least in mainland China. In Shenzhen, a booming manufacturing city located just across the border from Hong Kong, the Municipal Drug Administration investigated 1,956 cases and shut down 38 underground producers and sellers between January and September of 2003. That's up from the 226 cases and 9 wholesalers busted in the whole...
...view, Asia is deluding itself in believing that it has uncovered a new, autonomous source of growth in China. In the end, the American consumer remains very much in charge. That's especially true for China, whose economic health relies heavily on American consumers borrowing money to buy mainland-made washing machines, toys, consumer electronics and other goods. Take away U.S. shoppers and you reduce not only China's major source of demand to feed its factories but also the spending power of newly minted mainland consumers whose livelihoods depend, directly or indirectly, upon the assembly lines running at full...