What we’ve been reading recently:
Magculture: Hong Kong report – Insights on the editorial-design relationship at HK mags, and thoughts on the difference in English-language/Chinese character typefaces. Very few fonts for Chinese characters, which is probably why magazines/websites look so bad most of the time. | china magazines media
New York Times: ‘No Hope’ for Children Buried in Earthquake – "A group of doctors in white lab coats sat in a bus, waiting their turn to help. Some slept. They said no one had been brought out alive in hours." | china earthquake
FinanceAsia.com: Vietnam is not the next China – "Royal Bank of Scotland issued a research report titled, Vietnam: Not Another China, that puts right that myth by stating another obvious: Vietnam ?lacks the same scale advantages. Its impact on global trade and inflation will also be marginal?." | Vietnam china
SCMP – Interview with Xiao Yaqing, president of Chinalco. Xiao talks about the company’s investment in Rio Tinto | BHP aluminum china chinalco riotinto
Marbridge Consulting: Alibaba to Promote PCs with B2B Inside – "Alibaba would partner with Intel to introduce a line of computers designed specifically for SME e-commerce, to use Alibaba’s embedded SME B2B platform and Intel’s platform technology to meet the data security and service needs of SMEs." | Alibaba Intel china technology
AP: Use of wind energy expected to grow dramatically – "The report, a collaboration between the Energy Department research labs and industry, concludes wind energy could generate 20 percent of the nation’s electricity by 2030, about the same share now produced by nuclear reactors." — pretty much the same dynamics as in China | Cleantech US china wind
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