Counting People, United Nations Finds China's Missing Children

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Darryl Fears, UN Analysts Deploy Many Tools to Project World’s Population. Washington Post, Oct 24, 2011.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/na ... QAPCaVDM_story.html

The first three paragraphs:

"In a cramped office on the 19th floor of Two United Nations, Danan Gu, a nerdy population analyst, found 7 million children in China who didn’t officially exist.

"They materialized in front of him, on a desktop computer. Gu pulled up a chart from China’s 2000 census, showing children age 1 and under. Then he clicked on a Ministry of Education report that recorded students in the same age group about 10 years later.

"The numbers didn’t add up: 32 million students were in the schools, but only 25 million were counted in the census a decade earlier. The discrepancy didn’t surprise Gu, who emigrated from China and studied demographics at Duke University. Under the one-child policy, 'parents hide children all the time,' he said.

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

(2) Electric-Vehicle Maker BYD Opens U.S. Headquarters in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Times, Oct 25, 2011 (blog).
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/ ... eadquarters-la.html
("BYD displayed one of the electric shuttle buses to be used by Hertz to transport rental car customers at Los Angeles International Airport. The BYD eBUS-12 can to run for about 155 miles on a single charge in urban conditions, BYD said. BYD also showed off what it called an electric 'passenger SUV.' There's no word on when the company might begin selling vehicles in the United States")

(3) Seema Mehta, Michele Bachmann's misstatements may be catching up to her. Los Angeles Times, Oct 24, 2011.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nati ... a-bachmann-20111024,0,847441.story

Two consecutive paragraphs:

"'If you want to have a business in China today, if you want to build a building, you just build it, you don't go through all the permitting process that we do here,' she said.

"Businesses have to apply for multiple permits in China. A 2008 World Bank publication found that China was among the most difficult places anywhere to obtain construction permits, ranking 176th of 181. The publication ranked the best and worst places, and the United States fell in neither category.

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

(4) Esther Fung, Shanghai Homeowners Smash Showroom in Protest Over Falling Prices. China Real Time, Oct 25, 2011
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealti ... ver-falling-prices/
(A group of around 400 homeowners in Shanghai demonstrated publicly and damaged a showroom operated by their property developer, a unit of China Overseas Holdings)

Note:
(a) China Overseas Holdings Ltd
http://www.cohl.com/webedge/portals/cohl/UI-Style/index.aspx
(中國海外集團有限公司於1979年6月在香港成立，隸屬 [state-owned] 中國建築工程總公司)
(b) Longfor Properties Co Ltd  龙湖集团
http://www.longfor.com/ljlh_lhgl.htm
("创建于1994年 [in Chongqing]，成长于重庆，发展于全国，是一家追求卓越、专注品质和细节的专业地产公司。龙湖集团总部设在北京")