Economist, Mar 9, 2013 (1)

choi

(1) Forestry in Japan | Killing Two Birds With One Tree; A proposal for easing both a natural and a man-made disaster in Japan
http://www.economist.com/news/as ... lling-two-birds-one

Note:
(a) apanese cedar, or sugi
(i) sugi 杉 【すぎ】 (n): "Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica)"
(ii) Cryptomeria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptomeria
(a monotypic genus [a genus containing just one species]; endemic to Japan; The tree is often called Japanese cedar in English, though the tree is not related to the true cedars (Cedrus [which is the genus name]; national tree of Japan))
(b) shōganai  しようがない: "it can't be helped; it is inevitable; nothing can be done"

choi

(2) Railways in Canada | Pacific Turnaround; A foreign boss is making an iconic railroad newly competitive.
http://www.economist.com/news/bu ... -pacific-turnaround
(paragraph 1: "CANADA doesn’t have much in the way of a founding myth. The completion in 1885 of the Canadian Pacific railway—which the colony of British Columbia made a condition for joining Canada instead of the United States—is about as good as it gets"

My comment:
(a) There is no need to read the rest.
(b) Canadian Pacific Railway
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Pacific_Railway
(c) British Columbia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia
(section 1 Etymology and 3.2 Rapid growth and development)

choi

(3) Cars in China | Still Racing Ahead; China’s luxury car market is a prize—but not for local firms.
http://www.economist.com/news/bu ... -still-racing-ahead
("A new report from McKinsey, a consultancy, calculates that China is now the world’s second-largest market for 'premium' cars (which include posh brands like BMW and Aston Martin plus the snazziest offerings from mass-market producers like Volkswagen and GM")

Note: The article cites
(a) Sha Sha, Theodore Huang abd Erwin Gabardi, Upward Mobility: The Future of China’s Premium Car Market; China is set to surpass the US as the world’s largest premium auto market by 2016. McKinsey&Co Greater China, Mar 7, 2013
http://www.mckinseychina.com/201 ... premium-car-market/
(Exhibit 1 of the full report, headlined "Global premium car sales ranking, thousand units," displays a bar chart for 2012 (estimate): US 1,700 (No 1), China 1,246 (2), Germany 947 (3), UK 530 (4), Italy 250 (5), France 228 (6), Japan 202 (7))

(i) I am surprised that Japan was not into premium cars back in 2002, either (according to the same exhibit).
(ii) Despite the 中文 language option in the upper right corner of the home page of McKinsey Greater China, this latest report is not translated into Chinese, as of today.
(iii) SHA Sha  沙 莎; 全球董事 · 香港
http://www.mckinseychina.com/zh/sha-sha/
("沙莎于2001年毕业于哈佛商学院，并拥有北京大学国际经济学学士学位")
(iv) Theodore HUANG  黄 韬 (Information Analyst, McKinsey at Shanghai)

(b) The report by Bernstein Research, more than 200 pages and written by a team led by Max Warburton, aimed at its clients, and is not available to the public. See

China Decade From Having Global Carmaker, Bernstein Says. Bloomberg News, Feb 21, 2013.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/20 ... bernstein-says.html