Put together a con man businessman, a middleman fixer, a money-laundering bank, and five corrupt antique appraisers. What do you get? A hell of a good story.

With an income gap, privilege and corruption, there is an automatic presumption against meritorious advancement. This is bad news for China's hi-tech economic development plans.

Further evidence that Huntsman has no chance: he dropped the name Kurt Cobain at a Republican debate. Angry old white people were clueless. -> CN can't find something shittier to buy? RT @chinabizwatch: Italy Turns to China for Help in Debt Crisis http://t.co/fDLrEMy ~CNBC -> Reuters: Senators offer bill for F-16 sales to Taiwan http://ht.ly/6szox […]

Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission has approved Acer's acquisition of iGware, a U.S. cloud computing technology company, and said the acquisition only has slight influence on the Taiwanese cloud computing software service market. In July 2011, Acer announc…