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...weekend - and businessmen keen on developing ties to the mainland are breathing easier. "The direct flights would save us a whole work day when we travel," says Samuel Chiu, a Taiwan-based business development manager at electronic instrumentation manufacturer Agilent Technologies. "That's the biggest cost benefit. Traveling to Shanghai will only take two hours...
...remarkable economic growth, particularly in developing countries such as India, may be drawing to a close. One ominous sign: stock markets throughout the region suffered sharp declines following a record one-day surge in oil prices of more than $10 a barrel on June 6; China's Shanghai stock market plunged 7.7% on June 10, its steepest drop in a year. While investors and economists are worried about a number of economic headwinds, rising oil prices, said Merrill Lynch in a recent report, "pose the major growth and inflation risk for Asia going forward...
...about Chinese belief systems and culture, but also at a time when multinational brands needed a sinicized graphic language in order to address hundreds of millions of Chinese shoppers. A postmodern Chinese style subsequently entered the global marketplace, appropriating elements of brushstroke calligraphy, Buddhist iconography, imperial and folk art, Shanghai Art Deco imagery, China Coast painting and the political art of the Cultural Revolution, while applying Western typographical ideas to Chinese characters...
Since Athens, Liu has been marketed as a national hero, but sports officials have taken a chunk of his advertising revenues as payback for developing his career. Although the Shanghai native's famous grin beams from thousands of billboards across China, he appears less cheery these days. He has been publicly chastised by sports officials for allowing "social activities"--a catchall for anything from commercial shoots to the occasional night of karaoke--to get in the way of his training. The pressure to win is almost unimaginable: a recent Internet survey found that the Chinese public's No. 1 Olympics...
...Coca-Cola's biggest bottling plant in China, located in Shanghai, plastic bottles and aluminum cans zoom by on conveyer belts, weaving in and out of massive machines that shape, clean and fill the containers. Grimy wastewater, generated from the cleaning of water filters and the heating and cooling of drinks, is shunted to a separate building behind the factory where it is treated so it can be used for street-cleaning, car-washing and other secondary uses. Leaking pipes have been fixed to save water, and a dry lubricant is used to keep conveyer belts running smoothly with less...