Economist, July 6, 2013

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(1) Returning Students  | Plight of the sea turtles. Students coming back home helped build modern China. So why are they now faring so poorly in the labour market?
http://www.economist.com/news/ch ... ow-faring-so-poorly
("Since then [1978], about 2.6m Chinese have gone abroad to study. The exodus has grown of late to about 400,000 per year. The majority stay overseas, but the 1.1m who have come back have made a difference")

Note:
(a) LI Sanqi  李 三琦
(b) "Wags say they [hai gui] should now be called hai dai, or seaweed."
(i) wag (n): "WIT, JOKER"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wag
(ii) wit (n):
"4a : a person of superior intellect : THINKER
b : an imaginatively perceptive and articulate individual especially skilled in banter or persiflage"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wit
(c) "WANG Huiyao of China Western Returned Scholars Association, which celebrates its centenary this year"  王 辉耀

Western Returned Scholars Association  欧美同学会
(d) "Roland Berger, a German management consultancy"

Roland Berger Strategy Consultants
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Berger_Strategy_Consultants
(founded in 1967 by Roland Berger; Headquarters  Munich)

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(2) Taiwan’s information-technology industry | After the Personal Computer; Companies built on PCs are adapting to a changed world.
http://www.economist.com/news/bu ... r-personal-computer

Quote:

"Information and communications technology now makes up one-third of [Taiwan's] GDP.

"MIC [Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC), a research group in Taipei] expects that this year Taiwanese makers’ share of tablets will drop to 53%, from 69% in 2012.

(As always) Taiwanese companies are adapting: "Wistron has been branching out too. * * * Late this year or early next Wistron will open a facility in Texas for recovering precious metals from computers and smartphones. In Kunshan, in China, it can recycle 60,000 tonnes of plastic a year.

My comment: There is no need to read the rest, which is familiar.