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Tuesday June 9
* The Chinese government is planning a share swap between China Eastern and Shanghai Airlines, paving the way for a merger between the two state-owned carriers. (WSJ)
* I was in Hong Kong last week for the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests, when 150,000 people held a candlelit vigil in…
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Trading standards have just spent a load of money trying to work out whether or not they contribute anything to the economy.
Their conclusion? That for every £1 they spend on their salaries and other stuff (roughly £58m a year) they save the consumer at least £347m a year. Good for them.
I take two things away from a quick skim of their research .
Firstly the amazing len…
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Has anyone found Google’s new export adviser tool useful or is it just a gimmick?
Google claims to be able to reveal under-exploited online advertising opportunities for products and services around the world based on how frequently the product word or phrase is searched for on Google.
The idea is that companies might be missing a trick by buying costly pay per click advertising on a search engine against, …
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The establisment Left had been crushed across most of Europe, just as it was in the early 1930s.
We have seen the ultimate crisis of capitalism — what Marxist-historian Eric Hobsbawm calls the “dramatic equivalent of the collapse of the Soviet Uni…
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What are the bosses of Alliance Boots, the private equity-owned retailer, thinking about? This morning, they confirmed that they have hired Andy Hornby, the former chief executive of HBOS, despite the fact that the bank got into terrible trouble under his stewardship an…
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Monday June 8
* All computers sold in China from July 1 will have censorship software already installed on them, as the government raises its control of the internet up a notch. (WSJ)
* US airlines, once so keen on China’s enormous market, have <a target=”_blank” href=”http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-06/08/content_825736…
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Much has already been written about Sir Alan Sugar’s appointment as Gordon Brown’s enterprise tsar in the last 24 hours and most of it has been negative.
My colleagues Tracy Corrigan and Judith Woods rightly savour the irony of Brown…
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Talk about the final throes of a dying regime: the appointment of Sir Alan Sugar as business tsar is the latest nail in the coffin.
When I first saw the pictures of Alan Sugar in the vicinity of Number 10 yesterday, I made the elementary journalistic error of thinking, no, it’s too ridiculous to be true, therefore it can’t be true.
There are several things that trouble me. The first is that Gordon Brown should be choosing to spend time appointing tsars of any sort at t…
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Angelo Mozilo, founder and former boss of US mortgage lender Countrywide, has become the most senior corporate executive to face charges related to his role in the financial crisis. Yesterday the Securities and Exchange Commission, the US regulator, charged him with securi…
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Friday June 5
* More than 150,000 people took part in a candlelit vigil in Hong Kong yesterday to mark the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square bloodshed. (Telegraph)
* David Bandurski’s China Media Project website experienced “technical difficulties” …
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