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The clout of local autocrats is undermining Beijing's highest-priority reforms. A Shanghai-based executive for a European sporting-goods company dismisses the notion that China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) will eliminate trade barriers. Even after the WTO agreement kicks in, his company will still...
But like Jordan, Li is discovering that knee ligaments and marketing formulas don't last forever. Li is uncharacteristically absent from his company's latest mainland advertising campaign, a $2.4 million TV blitz that coincides with World Cup broadcasts. The ads, featuring no-name characters wearing Li Ning Sports gear...
CRICKET Numbers Game Next year's world cup in South Africa faced disruption from the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League, after the country's United Cricket Board (UCB) said it would abandon quotas for the selection of black players in national and senior provincial cricket teams. Previously, the inclusion...
Person of the Week CANCELLED He took Vivendi Universal on a corporate buying spree, trying to transform a staid, provincial French utilities firm into a multinational media giant. But Jean-Marie Messier overreached and Vivendi's stock price collapsed, leading to his dismissal as company chairman last week
Duterte, who graduated as a lawyer in 1972?the year Marcos proclaimed martial law?rose to prominence against this backdrop of vicious mayhem. As a city prosecutor he made his reputation by targeting military and rebel abuses with equal fervor. The son of a former provincial governor, Duterte says his...