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...government announced Healthy China 2020 earlier this year, a major health care reform plan that seeks to provide basic health care to all Chinese residents within the next 12 years. The initiative requires improving the country's vast network of public hospitals, a prospect on which Sunnylife Global Inc., a publicly traded company in West Covina, Calif., is staking its future. Sunnylife entered its first joint venture in 2003 to upgrade some of the country's public hospitals by providing everything from updated equipment to structural improvements. Dr. Bridget Cheng, who co-founded the company in 2000, envisioned bringing...
...fall within the federal government’s definition of research misconduct, including administration of sponsored awards and representation of academic credentials, according to Dean R. Gallant, assistant dean for research policy and administration and director of the Science Center. The changes will not be particularly significant, as the reform will merely codify procedures already practiced by the faculty, Gallant said. “It’s like a fire alarm system,” said Gallant, who presented the proposal at yesterday’s meeting. “You don’t want to have...
...government is much more responsible for this mess than Wall Street is, by refusing to reform Fannie and Freddie in 2005 and by allowing subprime mortgage loans to be made to unqualified buyers. Forrest S. Walters, ERIE...
...fears that the fallout from the U.S. subprime mess might cripple reform of China's financial system - now only partly open to the world - may be overwrought. Earlier this week Beijing sent a clear signal that, notwithstanding the mess in the U.S. and Europe, it still seeks to develop, slowly but surely, a more sophisticated capital market. China's State Council has approved a plan to allow margin trading and short-selling, giving domestic investors in China's A-share market "new opportunities to hedge and leverage their positions," says Jing Ulrich, head of China Equities at JPMorgan Securities...
...China's markets, of course, have a long way to go before they are as open and accessible to global capital flows as those in New York, London or Tokyo. But Chinese regulators believe the slow, deliberate pace of reform has helped insulate the country from the worst of the current market turmoil. Consider China's banks. Five years ago, by all accounts, they were a disaster area, plagued by bad loans, lack of capital and poor management. In 2003 nonperforming loans made up 17.9% of their total portfolios, according to government figures. By the end of last year, that...