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For... http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/05/edss_sale_a_los.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/05/edss_sale_a_los.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech Wed, 14 May 2008 05:46:47 -0500 The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page is not the place you usually find praise for the Chinese government. But the paper’s Asian edition today has kind words about Beijing’s handling of the devastating earthquake in Sichuan. Comparing the Chinese government’s... http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/05/earthquake_afte.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/05/earthquake_afte.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech Policies Wed, 14 May 2008 04:23:07 -0500 More merger news from Japan. This time, it's two mid-sized consumer electronics companies, Kenwood and Victor of Japan (maker of the JVC brand), that are joining forces to improve their chances of survival. The two said today they have agreed... http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/05/kenwood_victor.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/05/kenwood_victor.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech Consumer Electronics Mon, 12 May 2008 03:24:37 -0500 About 11 years ago, a dynamic and thoughtful scion of a major Indian industrialial house, told me this. He worried, he said, about the divide in India. He worried that there would be bubbles of growth and modernity in India,... http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/05/townships_vs_na.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/05/townships_vs_na.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech Politics Fri, 09 May 2008 13:22:37 -0500 Lots of speculation flying around that Huawei is looking to sell a stake in its handset, router and data-card businesses to a foreign investor. The Journal first reported this on Thursday, without naming the source for the information. When it... http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/05/huawei_rumors.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/05/huawei_rumors.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech Telecom Fri, 09 May 2008 04:03:04 -0500 It's not quite time for investors in Japan to start popping champagne corks, but the benchmark Nikkei 225 is the best performing among big Asian economies in the last month. Could this be a sign of things to come? For... http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/05/japan_stocks_bo.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/05/japan_stocks_bo.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech Economy Wed, 07 May 2008 22:17:43 -0500 For decades the military junta of Myanmar has spurned much of the international community, deliberately pursuing an isolationist policy that is second only to North Korea’s. But in the wake of Cyclone Nargis which has left more than 60,000 Burmese... http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/05/burma.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/05/burma.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech catastrophic events Wed, 07 May 2008 04:45:25 -0500 The U.S. isn’t the only country victimized by cyber espionage that is blaming China. Something similar seems to be happening in India, too. American military and intelligence officials, as several of my BusinessWeek colleagues published in a cover story last... http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/05/is_china_to_bla.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/05/is_china_to_bla.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech Internet Tue, 06 May 2008 03:25:13 -0500 Last Friday when Mia Farrow spoke at the Foreign Correspondent’s Club here in Hong Kong she was asked by the Consul General of Saudi Arabia why she had not taken up the case of the Palestinians and others in plight.... http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/05/youtube_burma_a.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/05/youtube_burma_a.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech Human Rights-Olympics Mon, 05 May 2008 04:50:30 -0500 The backlash against the backlash has begun. For weeks now, we've been reading about Chinese officials, Chinese students overseas, ordinary Chinese at home, furious about the coverage of Tibet and the Olympic torch relay. The rage against Carrefour, against CNN,... http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/05/beijings_audien.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/05/beijings_audien.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech Politics Fri, 02 May 2008 01:53:13 -0500 I have to admit I’m a lot more stoked about the Hong Kong leg of the Olympic Torch Relay on May 2 more than I’d originally thought I would be. Thanks to the torch’s turbulent journey during the past... http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/04/will_protestors.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/04/will_protestors.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech Human Rights-Olympics Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:32:40 -0500 HSBC Holdings isn’t likely to finalize the planned purchase of Korea Exchange Bank any time soon, with the London-based bank extending the expiry of the contract, originally due on Apr. 30, by three months. That’s despite remarks by Korea’s top... http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/04/no_imminent_sea.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/04/no_imminent_sea.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech Banking Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:43:54 -0500 TSMC chairman Morris Chang, hailed in Taiwan as the father of the island’s chip industry, is predicting more good times ahead for Asia’s chipmakers. Why? As the cost of building new semiconductor plants runs into the billions of dollars, more... http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/04/happy_days_ahea.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/04/happy_days_ahea.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech Chips Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:52:50 -0500 Some good news for Indians hoping to build a semiconductor industry in the country. While plans to build India’s first serious chip plant seem to be stalled, the chip-design business is doing quite well, thank you very much. (For more... http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/04/indias_chip_dre.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/04/indias_chip_dre.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech Chips Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:24:11 -0500 Gee whiz. The Shanghai Stock Exchange lept 9.3% today, its highest one-day jump in six years the day after the government announced it was slashing the stamp duty tax from 0.3% to 0.1%. Only one of the 888 [and that’s... http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/04/shanghais_marke.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2008/04/shanghais_marke.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_asiatech Economy Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:31:50 -0500