3 August 2007

Stories from 3 August 2007

China: Bad time to invest West

“Timing is everything, seasoned investors tell us,” and EngagingChina blogger Geoff Nairn writes in ‘Bad Timing‘, “and the Chinese government's much-publicised recent decision to start investing directly in western companies...

3 August 2007

China: Are aluminum prices fixed?

Lou Schwartz at the Asia Business Intelligence blog manages a very detailed and clear analysis of the fluctuations in aluminum prices over the last fifty years in ‘Price-Fixing in China?...

3 August 2007

Haiti: Simple Technology

“The teenagers in Haiti with rheumatic heart disease break our hearts when we examine their broken hearts.” Dr. John Carroll quotes The New England Journal of Medicine to support his...

3 August 2007

Iran: A Photo Exposition

Mohammad Kheyrkhah informs us that he organised his new photo exposition in Tehran:Iranian Woman.You can see one of his photos here.

3 August 2007

Cuba: The Church's Role

Uncommon Sense finds it “disheartening that the church in Cuba has not used its moral authority to advocate more forcefully for the cause of freedom.”

3 August 2007

China: Baidu rolls out 1GB blogs

Chinese search engine Baidu has announced its Baidu Space bloggers now have 1GB of server space to work with, writes China Tech Stories blogger Mao Xianjia, making “hi.baidu one of...

3 August 2007

Barbados: Price Fixing Scandal

“Virgin Atlantic and British Airways ILLEGALLY got together and decided to squeeze more money out of travelers to and from Barbados – and in so doing hurt our travel industry.”...

3 August 2007

Iran:no tears for criminals

Kourosh Ziabari says[Fa] he got surprised to see that some people are sorry for “criminals” or “thugs” who got executed recently.He says they were not political prisoners to be sorry...

3 August 2007

Bahamas: Energy Policy

“So in the absence of an official Bahamian policy, what can WE do to promote energy security?” Larry Smith at Bahama Pundit thinks that “a little common sense will go...

3 August 2007

China: Motorbikes banned in Dongguan

“Today is the last first day of a month that motorcycles can legally ride the streets of Dongguan,” wrote manufacturing executive and blogger A. Bryson on August first. “Come September...

3 August 2007