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...SHANGHAI The diamond inside Chopard's So Happy ring ($5,195) moves around...
...Foreign drugmakers are happy to oblige. Both U.K.-based AstraZeneca and Swiss outfit Novartis have announced plans to spend $100 million on new R&D labs in Shanghai. In June, the U.S.'s Eli Lilly pledged to spend $300 million within the next five years. Britain's GlaxoSmithKline started 17 drug trials in 2006 and plans to double that number this year...
...price tag for drug trials in China can be one-tenth that in the U.S. or Europe, says Chen Li, medical director at the Shanghai-based firm KendleWits, which facilitates drug trials for major drug companies. Plus, she says, "patients are less likely to have been previously exposed to other medicines" that could alter results...
...face-off between Blanque and Tyson highlights a sharp divergence in risk perceptions at the board session, which also included Moises Naim, formerly Venezuela's Trade and Industry Minister, who is editor of the Washington-based journal Foreign Policy; Fang Xinghai, the deputy chief executive of the Shanghai Stock Exchange; and Slawomir Sikora, president of Poland's Bank Handlowy w Warszawie--now part of Citigroup...
...overheating in some sectors. The number of cars sold in China doubled last year, to more than 2 million, for example, and the real estate market in some coastal regions is frothy. But the central bank is trying to thwart overspeculation. Fang regrets not buying an apartment in Shanghai when he moved there a year ago; prices have jumped 60% since then. "The room for policy maneuver is very big, and we shouldn't be concerned about overheating," he said...