From China Daily via Digital Times:

Since 2005, the US state, which raises, processes and exports the most turkeys in the country, has been working to promote Thanksgiving as a holiday, and turkey as a foodstuff, in the Chinese market.
In 2006, they sent a research team to China, [...]

Very interesting feature last week in the Christian Science Monitor about the growth in China's mental health services industry. Apparently the supply of psychotherapists and counselors can not keep up with demand.
The next question is obvious: is this a product of new stresses on people or changing attitudes towards seeking help for mental problems?
No definitive [...]

So the big news at the ASEAN meeting this week was the signing of a new charter that makes a lot of EU-type noises. ASEAN wants to keep integrating, and the charter includes stuff like a more encompassing definition of trade (goods, services, capital), movement of people, adherence to the rule of law, etc. [...]

Proposals on the Companies Ordinance's accounting and auditing provisions will be finalised early next year, the Financial Services & the Treasury Bureau says. Views will be sought on the new Companies Bill in mid-2009 before introducing it to lawmakers by the third quarter of 2010.

I must not have gotten that memo telling us that today was Incredibly Obvious Headline Day,which is apparently some sort of international holiday.
Lucky for me, the Asia Wall Street Journal keeps on top of this:
China Shows High Interest in African Oil
Nothing gets past these guys.
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Economist Dani Rodrik wrote a very thought-provoking post on his blog last week about the different definitions out there for "Rule of Law" among economists and legal scholars.

Am I the only economist guilty of using the term abundantly without having a good fix on what it really means? Well, maybe the first one to confess [...]