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		<title>Chongqing to Interweb: &#8220;Play Nice!&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	China is getting creative, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization, which revealed today that patent applications from the Middle Kingdom doubled between 2000 and 2004.&nbsp; But those who fear change needn&#8217;t worry.&nbsp; The Chongqing Municipal Government has taken steps to ensure that all this creativity business doesn&#8217;t get out of hand. 
	Authorities in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oriada.blogsome.com/2006/10/19/chongqing-to-interweb-play-nice/</link>
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		<title>Golf - Not Just For Rich People Any More!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Just over a month after Peking University kicked off an almighty ruckus by announcing that it would build a golf course/driving range on campus (as noted on this blog at the time), Xiamen University yesterday declared that it would go one better and force students from its business majors to learn how to play golf, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oriada.blogsome.com/2006/10/17/golf-not-just-for-rich-people-any-more/</link>
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		<title>Wikipedia Unblocked in China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	As of some time this afternoon, Wikipedia has been completely acessible in Beijing, the first time it&#8217;s been available in China in almost exactly&nbsp; a year.&nbsp; Commentors on the chinese-forums website have reported that they can access it. It is too early to tell whether this is a permanent arrangement or just a temporary leak [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oriada.blogsome.com/2006/10/11/wikipedia-unblocked-in-china/</link>
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		<title>Why Is The Chinese Football Team So Bad?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	If I had a yuan for every time I&#8217;ve been asked by folks from home why, with 1.3 billion football-crazy people to choose from, China is apparently unable to round up 11 half-decent footballers to form a competent national team,&nbsp; I&#8217;d be a very rich man.&nbsp; Well, maybe not rich but I would, at least, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oriada.blogsome.com/2006/09/22/why-is-chinese-football-so-bad/</link>
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		<title>Regulations On Foreign Banks to be Relaxed?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	China Daily reports&nbsp; that the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) and the Ministry of Commerce  are having second thoughts about the tough regulations they set for foreign banks entering the Chinese market.&nbsp; 
	According to the terms of the country&#8217;s accession to the WTO, China is obliged to open the banking sector to foreign institutions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oriada.blogsome.com/2006/09/21/rules-for-foreign-banks-to-be-relaxed/</link>
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		<title>A Bigger Say At The Top Table</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Members of the International Monetary Fund today voted overwhelmingly to approve a controversial package of reforms that will give greater power and imporatance in the IMF to China and three other countries.&nbsp; The changes will see China&#8217;s share of the votes in the IMF rise from the present 2.98% to 3.719%, with the shares of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oriada.blogsome.com/2006/09/20/a-bigger-say-at-the-top-table/</link>
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		<title>Asking the Wrong Questions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Unsurprisingly, there are no official statistics available on patriotic and nationalist sentiment in China, but if there were they would make for interesting reading.
	National spirit in China is not just that misty-eyed feeling one gets when the Irish rugby team beat England at Twickenham (or anywhere else for that matter).&nbsp; With China on the up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oriada.blogsome.com/2006/09/19/asking-the-right-questions/</link>
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		<title>借尸还魂 - Raise a Corpse From the Dead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	&quot;Raise a Corpse From the Dead&quot; is one of the famous 36 Tricks, the military stratagems that have influenced generals and leaders in China since long before the Art of War.&nbsp;&nbsp; This particular proverb&#8217;s rough meaning is that, when the time is right, one should resurrect some person, thing or idea long-abandoned or ignored and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oriada.blogsome.com/2006/09/18/p43/</link>
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		<title>What would Mao think?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Almost 30 years to the day after his death, one has to wonder what the great helmsman would make of reports like this one in yesterday&#8217;s Guardian about China&#8217;s burgeoning polo scene.&nbsp; Well, perhaps burgeoning is not quite the right word. What&#8217;s one step above hypothetical? 
	In fairness to Xia Yang, the man behind the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oriada.blogsome.com/2006/09/13/what-would-mao-think/</link>
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		<title>Wen &#8220;Pledges to Protect Foreign Media Rights&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Wen Jiabao, friend of the foreign media? So says China Daily, reporting on a speech Wen gave in London yesterday in which he &quot;stressed that China would stick to the policy of opening-up to the  outside world&quot;.&nbsp; Wen apparently assured his audience at the  China-Britain Business Council that the state would protect the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oriada.blogsome.com/2006/09/13/wen-pledges-to-protect-foreign-media-rights/</link>
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