On my visit to China with a group of journalists, I today visited Beijing Middle School 101 – a school at which 4,000 students up to the age of 18 prepare for university. It was a remarkable insight into the achievements and aspirations of China’…
I am in China this week and, on my first full day in Beijing, took a trip to the Great Wall at Mutianyu. While there, I saw the following customer service declaration on the cable car. It made this visitor happy:
Two years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, regulators are working on ways to prevent it happening again. That means finding a way to wind down a complex, global financial institution safely, while making its shareholders and bondholders suffer…
As one of the most successful pure-play online publishers, Nick Denton’s business model for Gawker Media is worth close scrutiny. Ben McGrath’s piece in The New Yorker contains some interesting data about his financial results:
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