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...traditional Chinese envelopes used for making gifts of money at festive occasions) and the sums are given to the Beijing-based charity Care for Children, for use in the organization's One in Ten initiative. The goal is to see 1 million Chinese orphans placed in loving mainland homes by 2010; over 40,000 placements have been secured so far. Envelopes are also left in guest rooms at evening turndown - alternatively, donations can be made on checkout. For more information, visit careforchildren.com.cn...
...Grassroots environmental organizations are springing up, and Wen feeds them by allocating grants, typically $5,000-$15,000, provided by a Colorado charity called the Global Greengrants Fund. The sums may be small, but the impact is profound, says Nick Young, chief of the China Development Brief, which monitors mainland NGOs: "In his quiet way, Wen is one of the most important environmentalists in China. He's doing incredibly important long-term work to create a new generation of NGOs...
...goal is to see 1 million Chinese orphans placed in loving mainland homes by 2010; over 40,000 placements have been secured so far. Envelopes are also left in guest rooms at evening turndown - alternatively, donations can be made on checkout. For more information, visit careforchildren.com.cn
...Foreign access to China's huge market has become an incendiary issue on the mainland. Several recent acquisitions of large Chinese firms by foreign companies have been stalled after a storm of public protest over the impact such sales could have on China's economic security. A $375 million bid by the New York-based Carlyle Group for Xugong Group, China's leading construction-machinery manufacturer, has been delayed for 10 months. More recently, Chinese corporate officials and commentators condemned the proposed takeover of China's biggest manufacturer of kitchen goods, Supor Cookware, by the French firm SEB. One critic...
...FACTS: There are seven alert sites on the U.S. mainland, each with two active aircraft, that can scramble fighters. The 9/11 commission concluded that F-15s were scrambled within 6 min. of notification of the hijacking of Boston's Flight 11. Because hijackers had dismantled the planes' transponders, the F-15s could not identify the endangered aircraft. Details of the intercepts' performance are now being questioned...