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Strategies & Market Trends : China Warehouse- More Than Crockery -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RealMuLan who wrote (2120)	12/19/2003 9:56:31 AM
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Sun Shines on China By Jason Brooks December 1, 2003 A few years ago, a James Bond film hit the screens that centered on a scheme to secure exclusive TV broadcasting rights in China for 100 years. Aside from demonstrating just how lame the Bond series had become, the plot pointed to the enormous promise of the 1.3-billion-person Chinese market. At last month's Comdex, Sun Microsystems chief Scott McNealy borrowed a page from the Bond script when he announced that Sun will be selling as many as 1 million copies of its newly minted Linux-based Java Desktop System to China in the next year. The announcement is certainly a big one for Sun. However, the deal marks a much bigger milestone for free software in general, and it points the way to how Linux will come to clean Microsoft's clock on the desktop. eweek.com

To: RealMuLan who wrote (2120)	12/19/2003 12:25:55 PM
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On overheated property market in China, "On condition of anonymity, a Beijing veteran economist expressed concern about the industry, saying that the overheated property market, if and when it collapses, might not only demolish the economy but strike at social stability, he said. ... However, unoccupied properties throughout the country by 2002 totaled more than 100 million square meters, half of which had been vacant for 12 months or longer. As a result, the vacancies have locked up more than 250 billion yuan, making property the leader among all Chinese industries in terms of non-performing assets. Obviously, real estate is running on the wheel of the financial industry. " atimes.com