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...EDevice has signed up Lavazza, the Italian coffee firm, for a smart vending machine called e-espressopoint. Other clients include Metering Services, a California firm that plans to produce meters that can send readings to utility companies, as well as the tax administration of China's Tianjin province, which plans to monitor private businesses' cash registers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marc Berrebi | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

That may be, but it has been replaced with a host of new ones. China's population will actually start declining in 2042, according to U.N. projections. In China's cities, the one-child policy has morphed into a no-child philosophy. In Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin, the population would be shrinking if not for an influx of migrants from the countryside. The news has stirred China's usually torpid parliament, which has proposed amending the one-child policy this summer so that some urban couples can have a second child. Each province would decide which birth-control procedures best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Lifestyle Choice | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

...region don't orchestrate a turnaround soon, the current slump might provide China with an opportunity to steal the show. Many foreign investors already shun Southeast Asian nations in favor of China's huge market and cheap manpower. The $1.9 billion that Motorola spent on a semiconductor plant in Tianjin last year was more than the company has invested in Malaysia in the past three decades. More companies are likely to choose China if the rest of Asia can't stimulate local demand, and quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sinking Feeling | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

...made and exported the world's best cars, TVs and semiconductor chips, and served notice that the region was a global player. Asians acknowledge sharing in its success: in April, electronics giant Matsushita announced it will spend $16.1 billion to expand factories making mobile phones and other devices in Tianjin, China. In the postwar period through September 2000, Japan has funneled $172 billion in direct investment to its Asian neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look Back In Anger | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...China is so big; one door is not enough. You know Chinese love to have a lot of doors in their houses. Cities like Tianjin and Dalian may grow as well. In 20 years, if our country's economic output is the second largest in the world, we will need one more economic center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mayor Of Shanghai: One Door Is Not Enough | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

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