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...government's tacit approval of the CNAC-China Eastern alliance marks a potentially significant policy shift by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), the country's aviation regulator. Just as Beijing has opened up its backward banking sector to overseas investment in order to tap the expertise of foreign financiers, in recent years the CAAC has been allowing foreign airlines to take small stakes in domestic carriers, hoping that outside partners could improve airline management. Air China, for example, has a cross-shareholding agreement with Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific, and in 2005 American financier George Soros invested...
Everybody is noticing we're really crowded. Everybody understands that crowded societies breed crime and violence and possibly terrorism and frustration. ... I manage with this book to tap into this collective fear we have, but neutralize the fear factor, with the "just suppose we're already dead" thing...
...Cheah built his business helping foreigners invest in Chinese companies. But now, he says, that script has been flipped: China wants help investing abroad. When Value Partners went public in November, Chinese insurance giant Ping An snapped up 38% of its offered shares, hoping to tap Value Partners' expertise. "The thing about China is it has taken them a long time to shift from what I call a starvation psychology," Cheah says. "They think they're a poor economy, so they should attract money from abroad. Now they're realizing they should be trying to export capital...
...strengths of the weekend’s performance lay in its fast pace and well-planned program order. The evening’s mixture of jazz and tap, with a guest appearance by the South Asian Dance Company and a stunning Irish dance number thrown in for good measure, provided a recipe for success...
...Tamed Russia Your selection of Russian President Vladimir Putin as Person of the Year was spot-on [Dec. 31, 2007-Jan. 7, 2008]. Putin may yet become the single most important person of the 21st century. Occupying the largest landmass of any nation, Russia has just begun to tap its natural resources and national potential. Putin's rise to power in 1999 is an astonishing story and was a stroke of genius by an otherwise embarrassing drunk of a President, Boris Yeltsin. Putin is that rare individual who came to govern Russia without the cancerous corruption that seems to plague...