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...ever imagine that Hello Kitty would be big worldwide? Maya Castro, Miami No, not at all. When I started I didn't even know whether she would sell in Japan. I was told that Hello Kitty was only for children and that Westerners wouldn't carry her around...
...head of research at Renaissance Capital, a Moscow-based investment bank. Still, he adds, "Eventually what will drive people back into the market is the fact that there are cheap assets here." BMW, Enel, L'Oréal and all the other foreign companies continuing to crowd into Russia wouldn't disagree...
Zhou Shuguang wanted to visit his mother. Normally, that wouldn't be a problem for the 28-year-old vegetable seller, blogger and self-described occasional "citizen reporter." He'd jump on a bus and ride the twenty kilometers from Meitanba, the village deep in rural central China where he lives, to his mother's place. But Zhou, who sometimes highlights cases on his blog that pit ordinary citizens against local government authorities, hadn't considered one vital fact: the Olympic Games being held in Beijing, some 1000 kilometers away. Soon after he arrived at his parents house...
...that the Olympics are halfway through, says Nicholas Bequelin, China researcher with HRW, any remaining hope that the authorities would relax once the Games were underway has also been dispelled. Bequelin notes that they "wouldn't even allow protests in their own designated protest zones in Beijing - protests that couldn't possibly have hurt anyone." Instead, at least five Chinese citizens applying to protest in the three official zones have been arrested as they've tried to register. Beijing has not commented on the arrests, but the state media has reported that all of the 77 protest applications submitted have...
...Memmel landed - solidly - off the high bars, contributing 15.725 to the U.S. women's total during the team competition. "I won't lie, it hurts a lot," said Memmel. "But I was confident that I could do it, and that it wouldn't get injured more...