CN Exports Questioned + 1-Year US Business Degrees Popular in CN

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My comment: There is no need to read the text of any.

(1) Warren Kozak, Call Them Tiger Students. And Get to Work. One reason why Asians dominate New York's top public high schools: high parental expectations. Wall Street Journal, Apr 5, 2013 (opinion)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 89081916758380.html

two consecutive paragraphs:

"New York's specialized high schools, led by Stuyvesant, Bronx Science and Brooklyn Tech. These schools are nationally ranked, their alumni include Nobel laureates, and they are feeders to the nation's top colleges. The admissions test comes in two parts—verbal and math—and takes two-and-a-half hours. Roughly 28,000 eighth-graders took the test in the fall. As always, those with the highest scores earned the coveted slots.

"Here is the ethnic breakdown of acceptances for next fall's Stuyvesant freshman class: 9 black students, 24 Latinos, 177 whites and 620 Asian-Americans. Although the numbers were slightly different at the other two high schools, the ethnic mix is roughly the same.


(2) Yajun Zhang, Richard Silk and Tom Orlik, Doubts Cast on Chinese Exports. WSJ, Apr 4, 2013
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 00363362983832.html
(China's "export numbers were likely to be inaccurate because of false reporting by exporters and local governments. In the three months through February, mainland customs reported $94.9 billion in exports to Hong Kong, but Hong Kong customs reported only $58.7 billion in imports from the mainland")

Note: View the figure only, which shows that the data discrepancy has been noted for the past three years, and gets worse.

(3) Melissa Korn, Chinese Deludge US Master's Programs; Overseas students seek specialized degrees to win competitive edge, and B-schools enjoy revenue in tough time. WSJ, Apr 4, 2013  
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 98831847621160.html
("Specialized master's degrees in accounting, finance and other disciplines—generally aimed at students just out of college and lasting one year—have found tremendous popularity in recent years among Chinese nationals")

Note:
(a) View the figure only.
(b) The German surname Korn is "from Middle High German korn ‘grain.’"