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Nothing in Wang's experience had prepared him for his U.S. venture. Like many other Chinese execs, he ad-libbed his way to the top, putting himself through engineering school and working his way up at Holley, then a low-tech but profitable state-run business. He has undeniable pluck--and he needed it when Holley nearly failed soon after he became chairman in 1987. Spurred by Beijing's calls for growth, he created two dozen units that were involved in everything from building roads to bottling water. Soon debts were nearly as big as assets, and the firm...
...State-run banks bailed Holley out by lending Wang and his managers money to buy the company. By 2001, he owned 27% of the newly privatized firm and set out to reinvent it as an international tech powerhouse...
...Television (CCTV) and the country's cable-backbone network, into the mammoth China Radio Film and Television Group and put senior party propaganda officials in charge. The goal, according to William Soileau, a lawyer at Baker MacKenzie who follows China's media, is to build "a small number of state-run media groups engaging in managed competition...
...battle. "Corruption was rampant," he says. "Mugabe has taken the wrong direction." His reply: Varombo Kuvarombo (1988), released abroad in 1989 as Corruption. He hasn't let up, writing songs like Zvatakabva Kuhondo (As we finish the battle, 1994) and Ndiyani Waparadza Musha (Who has destroyed our home?, 1998). State-run ZBC radio - the main source of news and entertainment - often bans Mapfumo's songs. During the chimurenga, ZANU-PF ran a Mozambique-based short-wave station that beamed into the country, a tactic that exiled Zimbabweans are using again. Now the regime is fighting back, recruiting popular singers...
...years ago, Gerry Jackson was sitting in her Harare home "going mad. I just wanted to know what was going on in my own country," recalls the ex-DJ with state-run Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation. "I wanted news." But since all broadcast media in Zimbabwe are controlled by the government, there was no reliable source. She tried setting up a station, Capital Radio, in Harare, but Robert Mugabe shut it down six days after it went on air. So she went into exile, to London, where she and a team of seven now run SW (Short- Wave) Radio Africa, beaming...