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After a run of acquisitions, Sing Wang's Tom.com looks more like a budding media empire than the fledgling Net start-up Wang joined in July 2000. The ex-Goldman Sachs banker has made the company a publishing, outdoor-advertising and sports-marketing moneymaker in the rough-and-tumble Chinese media industry. He staged a mini-coup in July when his company acquired controlling interest in CETV, AOL Time Warner's beleaguered foray into China's television market. Wang plans to make the channel profitable by using Tom.com's existing sales network to bring advertisers to CETV...
...dean of Boston theater criticism for 50 years; in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. As critic for the Boston Post, Record American and Herald American, he reviewed more than 6,000 productions and helped shape shows that were on their way to Broadway with his perceptive critiques of their early, often rough, versions...
...Rough Landings Turbulent times at British Airways; the airline landed itself with a jumbo first-quarter pretax loss of 364 million. This after BA revealed a wildcat strike by staff last month could set the company back a further €57 million...
...Sports-equipment giant Nike was left in the rough as world No. 1 golfer Tiger Woods - whom the company sponsors with a reported $100 million - announced that he was ditching its specially developed driver and returning to an old club made by archrival Titleist. The reason: he's won only two of the seven majors that he's played with the Nike club, compared to five of six with the Titleist...
Last week was rough for disciples of Saddam Hussein. But while Saddam's sons were being gunned down by U.S. forces, another less famous supporter of the fugitive Iraqi dictator held his ground. Mowaffaq Mahmoud al-Ani, Iraq's ex-Ambassador to China, has completed seven weeks of an armed occupation of Iraq's embassy in Beijing. According to Talal al-Khudairi, who has been tapped by Iraq's new Foreign Ministry to assume the ambassadorship, al-Ani received a telegram relieving him of his duties on June 6. Determined to ignore the order, al-Ani chained the doors...