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...Fake Watch This week, TIME Asia inaugurates a regular look into the murky world of intellectual property abuse. We start with the case of Professor Zheng Chengsi, one of China's top experts on the issue. Last week, while outgoing U.S. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans pressed the mainland to "forcefully confront" its piracy problem, a Chinese court awarded Zheng $6,826 in damages from publisher Beijing Scholar Digital Technology. The affront: publishing eight of Zheng's textbooks online without permission, including seven on copyright infringement...
...been in the plastic-molding business since 1977, explains that factory owners who negotiated contracts with foreign companies earlier in the year when the price of oil was lower "settled on an export price, and now they can't make money so they're just going bust." Adds Zheng Shihua, who runs a trading house out of a storefront that doubles as his family home: "I never dreamed the prices would get so high. I'm scared to buy raw materials now, because I don't know when the price will fall. It's like playing the stock market...
...Davol, plus occasional accordionist Daniel Handler, a.k.a. author Lemony Snicket) will tour briefly in support of I, but Merritt is increasingly focused on composing for film and theater. He wrote songs for last fall's Katie Holmes movie, Pieces of April, and has collaborated with director Chen Shi-Zheng on two avant-garde Chinese folk operas, which were staged at Lincoln Center and Los Angeles' new Disney hall. "I'm enjoying working in theater, and I would happily never sing again," says Merritt. "But I am a bit torn. All the theater work is noncommercial, which means that there...
...having little impact, partly because China's banks have close ties to local governments, which often have stakes in local companies and property developments-a strong incentive to ignore Beijing and keep lending. "Irrational investments in redundant low-level construction projects ... have not been controlled effectively," admits Zheng Jingping, spokesman for the National Bureau of Statistics...
...sauce. Huang also commends the service, because “they don’t rush you like in Chinatown, where they try to turn tables around.” If transferring from bus to bus discourages you, head to Royal East in Central Square. Order the Zheng Jiang Pork Chop, a sweet and sour tasting dish, which avoids artificial coloring and flavoring and instead uses real aged rice vinegar...