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前面评论过地产公司对国际市场融资途径并为断绝，例子是刚刚上市的华程。这里又增加一个新例证，地产公司还可向国际市场发行债券。这些债券尽管评级（标准普尔）不高，凭着高额回报率，还是吸引了众多投资者。
见：Chinese bond yields attracting investors 

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In the name of “socialist new village” movement, China’s provinces, such as Jiangsu, have been confiscating peasants’ houses and lands without giving them reasonable compensation since 2006. In these provinces, peasants were mandated to move to the concentrated residence, assigned a unit of the government-built apartment building, and given a pathetic amount of monthly stipend […]

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希拉里不久前在演讲中描述自己在某国遇险经历，后被媒体指撒谎。电视台调出当时拍摄的录像，结果所谓遇险–根据希拉里的描述，自己和女儿不得不在枪林弹雨中逃脱–根本是子虚乌有。希拉里近来领先优势消失，这次又损失公信力，可谓是雪上加霜。
见Clinton under fire。

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[The National Social Security Fund will soon become a more important player in Chinese securities market if the SOE non-traded shares are re-allocated to NSSF. ]
China finds gaping hole in pension fund

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纽约书评最近发表的一篇文章分析了民主党在决定奥巴马还是希拉里的过程里可能存在的不确定因素。除了不久前评论过的超级代表（super delegates）问题之外，还有密歇根和佛罗里达两州是否计票的问题 。（之前的评论，请点击这里。）
民主党全国委员会（Democratic National Committee）曾经因为密歇根和佛罗里达违反其规则而取消了两州的代表选票，希拉里阵营先前支持这一决定，后来发现两州选票支持希拉里居多，自己的选票又已经大大落后于奥巴马，于是提出反对民主党全国委员会的决定，要求把选票记入自己名下。两州选票可能会产生120票的差异，显然可能影响将来是奥巴马还是希拉里出任民主党候选人(奥巴马的选票1520，希拉里1424)。民主党全国委员会主席Howard Dean正在处理这一棘手问题。
纽约书评的分析清楚明白，有兴趣可以去读。

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Hu Shuli, the chief editor of Caijing Magazine and a prominent political commentator, recently published an article on the scheduled administration reform of China. Citing the recent newsletter from the People’s Congress and Political Consultative Conference, she noticed that the newsletter coined a new term of “holding higher the banner of people’s democracy” (“更高地举起人民民主的旗帜”), […]

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[The following article from China Briefing suggest that Chinese anti-trust law, scheduled to take effect in August,  has implications far more significant than curbing foreign investment interests, although it doesn’t clearly say why and how.]
 
Will the Anti-monopoly Law assist central regional development?
Additional M&A activity anticipated if China can banish SOE cartels
 

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Some friends mentioned to me yesterday that Facebook had the worst privacy protection among those of the social network websites. It is proved to be true by the following news.
Facebook’s Worst Nightmare (aka Mr. Zuckerberg goes to Washington)

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I have long heard about Google’s participating in China’s internet censorship, but details, such as what Google hides and how, remain unknown to me. Now with the website “google v. google.cn” I can easily see them. Here is an example of comparing the searching results of “communism” from google and google.cn:

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Big Think和Youtube两个视频分享网站最近推出了教授和公共知识分子作为主角的视频系列，将来可能成为新的网上教育平台。例如, 哈佛法学院的德肖维茨教授近来成了网上的明星。
美国高教纪事给出了头条介绍和评论.
可以从这里直接点击观看视频.

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