New Orleans A couple of last, personal notes on our delegation’s recent trip to Japan and China, and then we will get on with 2007, thank you! My favorite memories of this trip are going to be early mornings in Shanghai in the pre–dawn fog and smog and watching the older people at their various exercises and …
Category: International
Labor Under Fire in Asia
Beijing Labor, whether organized or unorganized, is under some pressure in this part of the world, just as it seems to be in so many other countries. In Japan we stumbled into the news that the union density fell for the 31st straight year to 18.4% with more than 10,000,000 members. Indeed better than the situation …
Internet Underwater
Beijing The South China Morning News published in Hong Kong published two full-pages on the story. CNN and BBC both flashed the crawler along the bottom of the screen that even Beijing was reporting internet slowdowns. Financial markets, trading houses, and regular businesses were virtually shutdown. The problem was simple: an earthquake in Taiwan. Undersea cables …