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...About 80% of the Bibles Amity produces are for domestic use, with the remainder going to Christians in Africa, Central Europe and other Asian nations. A poll early this year by East China Normal University in Shanghai of 4,500 Chinese found that 31.4% considered themselves religious, a proportion that suggests 300 million Chinese believers; of the religious respondents, Christians represented 12%, or 40 million nationwide. Demand has grown to the point that the foundation plans to open a new, 515,000-square-foot (48,000 sq. m.) printing plant next year, which will allow Amity to turn out more...
...democracy in countries that aren't ready for it." Wrong! The Iraqi people are more than ready, as shown by their participation in the elections held there. It is the terrorists who aren't ready and have done all they can to block the path to democracy. Jim Robinson, SHANGHAI...
...reminder that clean tech is about more than just carbon emissions. Another difference is the faster payoff for green investment in China, driven by lower fixed costs and intensifying demand for clean energy. "All clean ventures in China are nearly immediately profitable," says Roman Shaw, founding partner of Shanghai-based venture-capital fund DT Capital. "That rarely happens in the U.S." But while China is almost certain to become the world's biggest market for clean tech - the government is calling for 15% of the country's energy to come from renewables by 2020, the same target that President George...
Looking ahead, Parent sees himself finishing his swimming career at Harvard before pursuing fashion after graduation. Already, Parent has lined up an internship with a small designer for this summer in Shanghai...
...China and Japan have been locked in a political deep freeze, seemingly unable to overcome the legacy of a devastating war more than six decades ago. Yet today, the two countries are both economic juggernauts - and their futures are inextricably linked. Upwards of 20,000 Japanese now live in Shanghai alone. The flood the other way is even more impressive: at half a million strong, Chinese legal immigrants now make up the largest group of recently arrived foreigners in Japan - and, no, they're not just stirring woks or taking the graveyard shift at convenience stores. More than...