What we’ve been reading recently:
Reuters: Value Partners caught out as HK airline fails – Cheah Cheng Hye has to field questions about his investment in Oasis Airlines, which announced its impending closure, at a routine speech to the FCC in Hong Kong. More interestingly, he thinks equities are underpriced now. Time to buy in! | china shares airlines CheahChengHye ValuePartners
Sinosplice: Learning by not looking everything up – Good advice on how to improve Chinese-language reading abilities. Only look things up when it’s cognitively painful not to! | china language mandarin
Economic Observer: Is China an Enemy of America? – “Fourth, human rights; Fifth, Tibet issue; Sixth, Taiwan issue…. Forget them. Those are political, not what the normal Americans really concern.” – on the contrary, says an American EO staffer | china Taiwan US tibet politics
The Star: Eye on China – Short profile of Cheah Cheng Hye, who runs the Value Partners fund in Hong Kong, with more than US$3 billion under his care. Started as a journalist in Malaysia with The Star, wound up in HK with WSJ and then into investment research. | china HongKong CheahChengHye Buffett investment ValuePartners
Ars Technica: Dyslexia works differently for those that read Chinese – “The work is an interesting demonstration of how something that appears to be a single mental phenomenon results from two completely different biological processes.” | china society neurology language dyslexia
Foreign Affairs: The Dalai Lama’s Dilemma – A piece in Foreign Affairs from 1998 that appears to predict the dynamics of the current situation – the Dalai Lama caught between a violent, militant independence bid and a rigid PRC government. The essay says the US is needed as an intermediary. | china tibet politics society
China Business Blog: Retail reality – Has Best Buy failed to discover retail nirvana in China? Plans thwarted, store openings postponed, CEO departed and so on | china retail bestbuy electronics business
CNReviews: RMB appreciation and the emergence of a new Asian reserve currency – How the renminbi could emerge as the stalwart of a new Asian reserve currency. Although not quite yet. And this thesis is highly debatable | china business renminbi RMB appreciation currency dollar
The Onion: Olympic Torch Used To Ignite Tibetan Protesters – “… As the torch travels the globe, a group of Serbian Nationalists has reportedly offered to transport the emblematic flame across the newly independent nation of Kosovo” says the satirical site, The Onion | China olympics tibet
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