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Why Every Organization Needs a China Strategy

Forum One

China is in the news a lot these days. Is China’s progress over-reported? Having spent the last year living in China, my view is that the “China story” is, in fact, under-reported. The world’s largest country is finally developing economically in a rapid and impactful way.

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Dragonair Hauls Rami off the Plane

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Rami's basic answer was that it didn't make sense to him and that they should explain why there was such a policy. The pilot said it was a regulation of the local aviation regulator (unclear if he meant Hong Kong or China). They tried to pressure him by telling him he was delaying the flight, and Rami said that he was unembarrassable.

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Lame spam roundup

Robert Weiner

Subject: RE: CELSA - Copies of Policies. Text: Unfortunately, I cannot obtain electronic copies of the Ocean, Warehouse or EPLI policy. Suzhou Sunshine is possibly one of the largest supplier of kinds of Welder helmet from China. Unfortunately, no umbrellas were included. Sender: LinkedIn Connections [connections@linkedin.com].

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8 Changebloggers: Nonprofits and Individuals Creating Change with Blogs

Have Fun - Do Good

Adam De Rose, Interfaith Worker Justice Blog Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ) advances the rights of workers by engaging diverse faith communities into action, from grassroots organizing to shaping policy at the local, state and national levels. It specializes in adoption from China, Taiwan and Haiti.

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Innocentive Online Collaboration Successful in Identifying Potentially Money-Saving Methods for TB Drug Production

Forum One

The two winning proposals were identified as coming from a scientist in China, and a research fellow in Germany. "These These solutions may save the TB Alliance and end-users a substantial amount of money, thus allowing more patients to be treated for less. "It was certainly worth going through the exercise."

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Social Networks to Replace Email? NOT!!!

Care2

Interestingly, despite all the protests against Facebook’s privacy policy she also said that people entrust their personal info with social networks. In China it grew by 1500%. She said only 11% of teens email daily and that they are using SMS (or Twitter) and social networks for communications. In India it grew by 1250%.

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Mobile for Good: iOS Threats, Creepy Cookies, and Some Good News

Tech Soup

WireLurker was only isolated to users in China. Paul Ohm, a senior policy adviser to the Federal Trade Commission and associate professor at the Colorado Law School, told The Washington Post , "You're making it very difficult for people who want privacy to find it on the Internet. " Phew!

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