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...they still accounted for only 10.7% of those countries' total exports. "Of course a slowdown carries the risk of reducing exports to China," says Susan Adams, senior resident representative of the International Monetary Fund in Vietnam. "But we don't see it as a major factor that would slow Vietnam's growth...
...Still, it's far from certain that China has the policy tools needed to avoid a crash. Premier Wen Jiabao recently likened his country to a speeding car trying to slow down without skidding. "We cannot slam on the brakes," he said. "We have to press the brakes gently." But the country's rickety financial system may not allow gentle pressure, because it has yet to undergo a full capitalist transformation-for example, some bank loans are issued because the government orders them, not because careful analysis indicates that the borrower is a good risk. So Beijing resorts to administrative...
...Trade Organization, has more-diverse industries and markets, a more flexible industrial base and a better-trained workforce. Although the country's official growth target of 7% is thought to be difficult to achieve, the median prediction among economists tracked by Bloomberg holds that China's GDP growth will slow to 8.7% this year...
...never thought I would be disenfranchised." JOSE CUISIA jr, former Central Bank of Philippines governor and a director of Namfrel, an election-monitoring group, who wasn't able to cast his ballot in last week's presidential election, which was marred by charges of cheating and a slow vote count, because his name was missing from a list of registered voters...
...fiasco, authorities limited coverage to Greek state TV. The Deputy Culture Minister nervously smashed a bottle of red wine on the base of the arch and looked skyward. The gods of Olympus answered her silent prayer. The 9,000-ton roof segment moved - just. The closing, fittingly, was excruciatingly slow, the huge steel arch moving at a rate of 5.5 m/h as teams of engineers and builders hung like spiders from ropes and perched on cranes. It took four days in all. "Thank God," sighed Greece's chief Olympic organizer Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki when it was finally over. Other blessings...