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...flood of IPOs by Chinese companies, including some record-breaking deals, is a major reason for that performance. To tap overseas investors, China's best companies?from mobile-phone operators to insurance firms?have made Hong Kong's stock market their No. 1 choice for going public. Why? The imposition of onerous reporting requirements on companies listing in the U.S. in the wake of the Enron scandal has knocked some of the shine off New York, while Chinese bourses in Shanghai and Shenzhen are often considered to be too immature and restricted (foreigners are allowed to trade freely only...
...pretty. Now pick it up and make a call. A big friendly icon appears on that huge screen. Say a second call comes in while you're talking. Another icon appears. Tap that second icon, and you switch to the second call. Tap the "merge calls" icon, and you've got a three-way conference call. It's ridiculously simple...
...plume of a former Western intelligence official who, in an e-mail interview with TIME, says he has been "in, around, and over (but never below) North Korea many times"-has an excellent eye for detail and a flair for the high art of gumshoe deadpan. "I felt a tap on my shoulder and turned to see who it was," O narrates, before being knocked cold by a security goon. "We'd been trained never to make that mistake; I made it anyway." As a detective, O is as hard-boiled as they come, a barely subordinate loner with...
...aggressively for natural resources. But as David Zweig and Bi Jianhai of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology argued in Foreign Affairs in 2005, it would make just as much sense for the U.S. and China--both gas guzzlers--to pool forces and figure out how to tap renewable sources of energy and conserve existing supplies. For a start, the U.S. could work to get China admitted into the International Energy Agency and the G-8, where such topics are debated...
...right, so it's pretty. Now pick it up and make a call. A big friendly icon appears on that huge screen. Say a second call comes in while you're talking. Another icon appears. Tap that second icon and you switch to the second call. Tap the big "merge calls" icon and you've got a three-way conference call. Pleasantly simple...