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...shares of Internet ventures, only to see their acquisitions turn to dross when the bubble popped. These days, the object of desire has changed, with investors equally convinced that the China boom is a sure thing. The index for "H shares," as the Hong Kong-listed stocks of mainland companies are called, spiked 152% in 2003. Now that investors are back, Chinese companies are rushing to raise cash. This year will bring a bevy of highly anticipated IPOs, including Ping An Insurance, China's second largest insurer, telecom company China Netcom Corp., and possibly China Construction Bank...
...favorite beasts of burden to a happy reincarnation. At Wat Khunsamutjeen in nearby Samut Prakan province, monks chant to the sound of lapping surf. Erosion and rising sea levels have turned the temple into an island. Worshippers negotiate a wave-lashed, rickety wooden walkway, take a boat from the mainland, or simply swim. Back in Bangkok, check out Wat Phasee if you like your history gory. In the capital's early days, subjects who displeased the King were beheaded there. You won't see any skulls, but some of the monks swear they see headless ghosts roaming the corridors...
...progress is unbelievable, especially considering that Taiwan has had to grow under the constant threat of Chinese missiles. Although goodwill has been repeatedly offered from the Taiwanese side, the Chinese government has refused to talk with our government and continues to claim that Taiwan is a renegade province of mainland China. Can successful negotiations take place with a knife pressed to our throat? The Taiwanese have no intention of becoming citizens of China under a communist government that does not respect basic human dignity. Chi-Chang K. Shieh Tainan, Taiwan...
...Famed for having been a physician to Deng Xiaoping, Zhong had also pioneered the earliest clinical treatments of SARS, emerging in China as the doctor most associated with fighting, and eventually defeating, the disease. A charismatic, well-built 67-year-old, he is the best-known doctor in the mainland?and the most intimidating. One World Health Organization (WHO) official described him as being "like...
...hosts were skeptical of this notoriously impetuous virologist, remembering that it had been Yi, in the early days of the first epidemic, who kept on insisting, incorrectly, that SARS was a novel form of avian influenza. Even after the genetic sequences had arrived from Hong Kong, his mainland peers were unconvinced. "When someone is showing you raw data, you have to be careful," said Dr. Xu Ruiheng, deputy director of the Guangdong CDC. "You have to ask yourself, is this real or is this fabricated?" In turn, Yi asked his Chinese counterparts if they had the sequences for the human...