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...polluted waters of Hong Kong's Rambler Channel, searching for the body of a drowned 7-year-old boy. A week earlier, the boy and his mother, a 39-year-old divorcée and welfare recipient, were seen plunging 17 meters to the sea from the Tsing Yi Bridge, near the city's container port. The mother's body was quickly retrieved, but except for a red schoolbag, there was no trace of the boy until March 4. On that day, his body was finally hauled out of the water, and Hong Kong notched up a peculiarly grim statistic...
...from mainland China married to local men. "These immigrant wives aren't eligible for welfare systems or public housing until they fulfill a seven-year residency requirement," says Cheung. "If their Hong Kong husband leaves them, they become stranded." Choi Sai-mui, who plunged with her son from the Tsing Yi Bridge, was one of these women. So was the woman who in 2007 tied the hands and feet of her 12-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son before jumping with them from the window of their flat. And while the woman who threw her 4-year...
...just emergency spending on bridges, roads and high-speed rail networks that's helping growth in China. Patrick Tam, general partner at Tsing Capital, a venture-capital firm in Beijing, says the government is aggressively helping seed the development of new green-tech industries. An example: 13 of China's biggest cities will have all-electric bus fleets within five years. "China is eventually going to dominate the industry for electric vehicles," Tam says, "in part because the central government has both the vision and the financial wherewithal to make that happen." Tam, a graduate of MIT and the University...
...earlier this month in Shanghai, when a San Francisco - based company called the Cleantech Group hosted a venture-capital forum aimed at driving investment dollars toward alternative-energy entrepreneurs on the mainland. Opportunities appear to be plentiful, despite the dim economic environment. Forum attendee Patrick Tam, CEO of Beijing Tsing Capital, says he is investing heavily in Chinese clean-tech companies - most recently in a Beijing firm called NetPower Technologies, which makes a battery that helps power-hungry businesses reduce their electricity consumption. "The government is just letting the venture-capital market rip in this field," says...
...graduate student who was performing the experiment, Tsing-Hua Her, noticed immediately that something was amiss when he combined the silicon with halogen gas: the silicon had turned black, but the material couldn’t have been burned, since there was no oxygen present in the chamber. Under the microscope, Her and Mazur saw, the surface of the wafers displayed a forest of tiny spikes...