China Losing Luster with U.S. Manufacturers

China Losing Luster with U.S. Manufacturers
A new survey finds rising worries about product quality and intellectual-property theft. More U.S. companies are looking to Mexico and their own backyard
By Pete Engardio
November 26, 2008, 9:17PM EST
Two years of disastrous quality-control breakdowns, from foul fish and lead-tainted toys to poisoned drugs and dairy products, are taking their toll [...]

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The Chinese regime has labelled the new Guns N’ Roses album, Chinese Democracy, as a “venomous attack” on the nation.

The Chinese regime has labelled the new Guns N’ Roses album, Chinese Democracy, as a “venomous attack” on the nation.
An article in the Global Times, published by the ruling communist party, says the album, launched this week, “turns its spear point on China”.
The title track of the album, which has not been released in China [...]

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Production cost $13 million_ Guns N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy banned?

China state media blast new Guns N’ Roses Album
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN for Associated Press
Nov. 24, 2008
BEIJING – A newspaper published by China’s ruling Communist Party is blasting the latest Guns N’ Roses album as an attack on the Chinese nation.
Delayed since recording began in 1994, “Chinese Democracy” hit stores in the [...]

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Will year 2009 be worse than 2008?

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Stores are closing out by the end of 2008. Do not buy store brand gift cards for holidays.

Subject: STORE CLOSINGS/Good to KNow
KEEP IN MIND WHILE HOLIDAY SHOPPING!! PLEASE PASS ALONG TO FAMILY AND FRIENDS
Subject: Be aware/gift cards for holidays/ Store closings
May I make the recommendation that we be careful of buying store brand gift
cards for holidays. Things are closing rapidly. Not on the list below is Linens
& Things is under liquidation and [...]

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Are exporting nations now themselves running out of grain?

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China’s Gruesome Organ Harvest – The whole world isn’t watching. Why not?

China’s Gruesome Organ Harvest
The whole world isn’t watching. Why not?
by Ethan Gutmann
11/24/2008, Volume 014, Issue 10
Bangkok
The jeepney driver sizes us up the minute we climb in. My research assistant is a healthy, young Israeli dude, so I must be the one with the money. He addresses his broken English to me: “Girl?”
No. No girls. Take [...]

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What If The Chinese Economy Goes Sour?

The New Republic
Crash and Burn – How the global economic crisis could bring down the Chinese government
by Joshua Kurlantzick for The New Republic
Date Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Normally, the Pearl River Delta, a manufacturing hub in southern China, whirs
with the sound of commerce. Alongside massive new highways, clusters of
factories churn out toys, electronics, and other consumer [...]

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The End_Wall Street_Liar’s Poker_Opportunistic and Outraged_Subprime Bonds

The End
by Michael Lewis for www.portfolio.com
November 11, 2008
The era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over. Michael Lewis, who chronicled its excess in Liar’s Poker, returns to his old haunt to figure out what went wrong.
Fallen bull statue in Wall Street

Photo illustration by: Ji Lee
To this day, the willingness of a Wall Street investment [...]

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Defense Lawyers Call for Protection of the Rights of Falun Gong Adherents

Defense Lawyers Call for Protection of the Rights of Falun Gong Adherents
Written by LKY
Monday, 03 November 2008
More and more lawyers in China are willing to represent the Falun Gong, a group
that was outlawed and its members are persecuted in China. In the past, most
of the Falun Gong adherents were sent to the detention center without [...]

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