Each month The Economic Observer Research Institute conducts a survey of experts, as well as voters in an online poll, to determine the top ten business stories. The top online poll results were Dae Jang Geum and International Oil Acquisition, each with 75% support. The judges, analysts, professors and executives in the business sector, also mentioned the maturation of mobile communications, IP suits, e-wallets provided by Bank of Communications and Shanghai Mobile, Lenovo's latest move with IBM PCs, and the Dongfeng-Citroen auto financing company.
The same supplement also rates 72 Chinese accounting firms according to trustworthiness and finds 32 "lacking trust," 35 "untrustworthy," and 5 "extremely untrustworthy," with scores ranging from -400 to -1450, where 0 is "trustworthy" and down to -300 is "relatively trustworthy."
Apparently based in Beijing, Manse's website has feature stories, bulletin boards and photo galleries, and also offers the option to download an 80 MB file containing an entire issue of the magazine, which is designed to look like a print magazine.
The contents are mostly slightly homoerotic fashion photos. There are some advertisements. One of them is a spoof iPod ad, no doubt downloaded from the Internet, that says: 'If you don't have an iPod, you're a loser', so it is unclear whether any of the other ads are from paying clients. Chasing after the pink dollar in China is probably going to be more difficult than the quest for "white collars' that most glossy magazines claim as their mission.
Cao Yilin, the first scientist who grew an ear in the shape of the human appendage on a mouse in 1994, is applying his research to people and predicts significant results next year......"Theoretically, tissue engineering can be used to grow both inner organs and tissues like bone, skin and joints," said Cao, director of Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tissue Engineering located at Shanghai No. 9 People's Hospital...
...The National Tissue Engineering Center and a hospital specializing in clinical use of the science will be established in Shanghai's Minhang District next year. The cost will hit 120 million yuan (US$14.81 million)...
..."We have succeeded in more than 40 cases in building patients' defective skulls, jawbones and arm bones in the past four years." said Cao.
According to Cao, he chose the ear as his subject because it is a soft organ and similar to the material found around the body's joints, the next target of his research.
Male homosexuals in Chongqing Municipality will be given condoms for free to protect them from AIDS, a Chongqing newspaper reported today.The municipal disease control center, in cooperation with a condom manufacturer, is offering 30,000 free condoms to gay couples, with the aim of containing the spread of AIDS. Male homosexuals are estimated to account for 6 percent of the city's male population, the newspaper said.
All the condoms to be provided have been checked and approved by the state health and pharmaceutical authorities. The condoms to be handed out to Chongqing's homosexuals are of extra thickness and smoothness.
Finally, MSN Search was visited by Channel 9 – the amazing MSDN Web site that brings the people of Microsoft to you in video. Erik Selberg and I joined Robert Scoble for a lively, hour-long discussion. Check out the video here.
We talk about:
And lots more -- check it out! BTW, in a small world moment, Erik and I worked together on software for psychology experiments when we attended Carnegie Mellon way back in 1990. We also shared a wall between our respective abodes, and… wait, those stories are for a different blog!
Andy Edmonds, Program Management
