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...target audience was males ages 17 to 25," says Marcus Spurrell, Adidas regional new-media manager for Asia. "Their mobiles are always on, always in their pocket-you just can't ignore [cell phones] as an advertising tool." Says Geoffrey Handley, director of new business for The Hyperfactory, a Shanghai-based ad agency focused on handsets: mobile-phone marketing "has become as vital a platform as TV, online or print...
...others would like some of its wealth. Though the World Economic Forum last year rated the territory as the world's 11th most competitive economy, Hong Kong is in a race for global business not just with obvious local rivals such as Tokyo and Singapore, but with cities from Shanghai to Dubai who are seeking to benefit from globalization...
...that spells more Hummers and luxury condominiums in Beijing and Shanghai for Shanxi's coal barons. The cash to buy their cars and toys will come from the sweat--and perhaps blood--of men like Xie Daibing. Xie, originally from the remote and dirt-poor province of Gansu, on the border with Tibet, works in a mine less than a mile from the shaft in Zuoyun County where the 57 miners drowned. "No, I'm not scared," he says, although he looks it, a frown creasing his forehead and his fingers restlessly juggling his cigarette pack and lighter. Xie says...
That made headlines around the world. The next day prices on the sizzling Shanghai stock exchange--which lots of people had warned was overpriced--fell 8.8%. Stock prices began dropping in Europe, then...
...brought to Bennelong people from poorer suburbs to the west and cut Howard's buffer to 4%. While Labor sniffs a chance to win, the P.M. is just as likely to think of the new entrants as future converts to the Howard doctrine. There is a sharp whiff of Shanghai exuberance around Labor. Just as in China's stock exchanges, the local political market will eventually turn to reflect fundamental laws. The Australian electorate is ultimately conservative. Issues such as the war in Iraq and the five-year Guant?namo incarceration of David Hicks may be hurting Howard now, but they...