News from a meeting of Tibet's Political Consultative Conference held in Lhasa is that Tibet plans to build 400 rural retail stores in the autonomous region's agricultural and pastoral areas to address the problems of the local population in purchasing commodities. Ma Xiangcun, a member of Tibet's Political Consultative Conference and the director of Tibet's Department [...]

China Unicom (CHU) has secured the opportunity to build telecommunication infrastructure in Tibet. The third-largest Chinese wireless carrier has reportedly entered into a five-year pact with the government of Tibet autonomous region under which China Unicom will spend as much as RMB1.8 billion (US$264 million) over the deal term to upgrade Tibet's IT/communication infrastructure.   China Unicom and the Tibet autonomous regional government will work together to develop various IT-based sectors in Tibet, such as telecom infrastructure and E-government business, as well as the information infrastructure of small businesses and rural areas.   Tibet’s telecommunication sector is growing rapidly (sales increasing at an average annual rate of 30%) over the last two years, offering an attractive business opportunity for the incumbent Chinese telecom carriers. The sector registered roughly 18% year-over-year growth in revenues in the first nine-months of 2009.   Initiatives are underway to make telephones and ...

The U.S.’ potential conflict with Iran might pale in comparison to a fight brewing between China and India, says Chris Mayer. “This one doesn’t seem to get much attention in the Western media, but I’ve read some dire stuff from the Eastern media. By their lights, the Sino-Indian border hasn’t been this tense since 1986-87, when the skirmishes broke out between Indian and Chinese troops.

“The issue is a disputed border between the two. They fought a 32-day war over it in 1962. China emerged victorious, but the whole thing settled nothing. The border between the two remains hotly contested. It is nearly 2,500 miles long and winds its way across difficult mountainous terrain. There is a northeastern state in India called Arunachal Pradesh, which China calls “Southern Tibet” and claims as Chinese territory.

“India claims last year there were nearly 300 border violations by Chinese troops and over

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At a promotional campaign jointly held by the Consulate General of Nepal in Lhasa, the Nepal Tourism Board, and the China Tibet Tourism Bureau, an official from the Consulate General of Nepal promised to 22 travel wholesalers that in the near future travel agencies in Tibet would be able to offer visa services to Chinese [...]

The video game industry has a reputation for being recession proof. And soaring sales this year suggest there are some great profit opportunities in the sector. That’s why the Money Morning team have created this comprehensive guide to virtual investing.

If you want to invest in video games there are, essentially, four ways to do it…

Investing in video game publishers. Investing in video game retailers. Investing in companies that make video game consoles. Investing in companies that make video game accessories. Game Publishers

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Electronic Arts is the publisher of the popular Madden franchise, which gives it a consistent intake

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VANCOUVER, B.C. - The U.S. financial crisis has cut so deep - and the government has taken on so much debt in misguided attempts to bail out such companies as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - that even larger financial shocks are still to come, global investing guru Jim Rogers said in an exclusive interview with Money Morning. Indeed, the U.S. financial debacle is now so ingrained - and a so-called "Super Crash" so likely - that most Americans alive today won’t be around by the time the last of this credit-market mess is finally cleared away - if it ever is, Rogers said. The end of this crisis "is a long way away," Rogers said. "In fact, it may not be in our lifetimes." During a 40-minute interview during a wealth-management conference in this West Coast Canadian city last month, Rogers also said:...

The Second of Two Parts.] Keith Fitz-Gerald Investment Director Money Morning/The Money Map Report VANCOUVER, B.C. - Despite its many problems, China remains such a strong long-term profit play that giving up on that country now would be like selling all your U.S. stocks at the start of the 1900s - before America created massive wealth by evolving into a world superpower, global investing guru Jim Rogers said in an exclusive interview with Money Morning. "I have never sold any of my Chinese companies," Rogers said. "You know, selling China in 2008 is like selling America in 1908. Sure, let’s say the market goes down another 40% - so what! You look back over 100 years, you look back from the beauty of 1928, or even 1938 [in the depths of the Great Depression], and there is somebody who bought shares ...

I don't mean to turn this into a Hollywood tabloid blog, but I wanted to show how authoritarian the Chinese government is. In fact, I think twice before I say anything about the Chinese government. Sharon Stone made the insensitive remarks about the Sichuan earthquake being 'karma' for government poor treatment of Tibet. Not only has Christian Dior fired Stone as their representative in Asia, she was removed from the celebrity invitation list from the Shanghai Film Festival as well as having all her movies permanently banned from being played in China.

If you want to do business in Asia, you need to be careful about what you say. Sharon Stone, the model/spokesperson for Christian Dior in Asia, recently said the Sichuan earthquake was 'karma' for its treatment of Tibet. That insensitive remark outraged the Chinese. Not only has Christian Dior dropped Stone from its Asian advertising campaign, the Christian Dior booth at the Hong Kong mall I visited was deader than a doornail. The other cosmetic counters were doing brisk business...but Christian Dior was dead. A similar boycott happened to French grocery retailers Carrefour when the Olympic torch was aggressively protested during its journey through France.

img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/43/5843/160/thinking.jpg"br /br /emfont color="#0000FF"(P.S: Sorry for any disturbances the advertisements above may have caused you)/font/embr /The extremely warm reception that China's Olympic Torch Relay runners have been getting from supposedly pro-Tibet protesters in the various Western cities they have passed so far has been alarming, and though I'd like to believe the Western governments have nothing to do with the (seemingly well-coordinated multinational) protests, the veiled threats by various Western leaders to boycott the opening ceremony suggests that indeed, these protests exhibit signs of going all the way up to the top levels.br /br /We have seen TV images of protesters in the Paris and London legs trying to sabotage the relay and then forcing the San Francisco leg to be cut short, casting a pall over the entire global torch relay and generating waves of righteous anger among Chinese citizens not just in China, but ethnic Chinese across ...