AIT Stanton + ECFA's Effects on S Korea + Apple Lost a Round

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(1) Shih Hsiu-chuan, Retiring AIT head to teach at Taipei American School. Taipei Times, July 4, 2012 (available now).
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/ ... 12/07/04/2003536914

Note: Taipei American School
http://www.tas.edu.tw/
(opned in 1949; offers lower and middle school [grades 6, 7, and 8] programs and an International Baccalaureate Program in the upper school [Grades 9-12] to children of expatriates in Taipei, Taiwan)

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/ ... 12/07/04/2003536914

(2) Kim Young-gyo, China-Taiwan trade deal has limited impact on S. Korea. Yonhap, July 3, 2012
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/ ... 0703005500320F.HTML
("despite the bilateral agreement [ECFA signed in 2010 between Taiwan and China], South Korean products accounted for 9.2 percent of China's total imports in the first quarter of this year, compared to Taiwan's 5.7 percent. The gap of 3.5 percent between South Korea and Taiwan grew from a 0.8 percent spread in the same period in 2008")

(3) Susan Decker, Apple Loses Bid for Emergency Ban on HTC Phone Imports. Bloomberg News, July 2, 2012
http://www.businessweek.com/news ... n-htc-phone-imports
("The US International Trade Commission yesterday [Sunday, July 1] instituted an investigation into Apple’s claim that HTC continues to infringe a patent in violation of an order issued in December. The agency denied an emergency request to have the HTC phones, including the One X and EVO 4G LTE, detained at the U.S. border. Notice was posted on the agency’s electronic docket")