http://www.pbs.org/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/ To design a new comprehensive health care system, officials in Taiwan looked abroad for ideas, borrowing from the best and avoiding the worst—including what they found in the U.S. Watch “Sick Around the World,” April 15, 2008 on PBS and online at http://www.pbs.org/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/ .
FRONTLINE teams up with T.R. Reid, a veteran foreign correspondent for “The Washington Post,” to find out how five other capitalist democracies–United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland–deliver health care and what the United States might learn from their successes and their failures. In “Sick Around the World,” airing Tuesday, April 15, 2008, at 9 P.M. ET on PBS (check local listings), Reid turns up remarkable differences in how these countries handle health care–from Japan, where a night in a hospital can cost as little as $10, to Switzerland, where the president of the country tells Reid it would be a “huge scandal” if someone were to go bankrupt from medical bills.
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At least two typhons and a tropical storm are hitting several Asian countries hard. China, Japan and Taiwan have seen at least 33 deaths and officials expect the death toll to continue to rise. (Aug. 10)
June 10 (Bloomberg) — Yasheng Huang, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, talks with Bloomberg’s Susan Li about rising wages for factory workers in China.
June 1 (Bloomberg) — Bloomberg’s Mike Firn reports on Honda Motor Co.’s decision to raise workers’ monthly wages after a parts factory strike shut down almost all Chinese production.
May 25 (Bloomberg) — Fred Hochberg, president of the Export-Import Bank, talks with Bloomberg’s Stephen Engle about U.S.-China trade and the two-day Strategic and Economic Dialogue that concludes in Beijing today.
May 10 (Bloomberg) — Simon Powell, head of sustainable research at CLSA Ltd. in Hong Kong, talks with Bloomberg’s Susan Li about the impact of China’s pollution control measures on the region’s environment-related stocks.
A Remix that I put together combining both version of the song. Just to show you how close Lin is to the original. http://masarider.blogspot.com/
Taiwan was NEVER part of People’s Republic of China (PRC). Today, Taiwan is STILL NOT part of China, and so WILL NEVER be part of China.
May 6 (Bloomberg) — Wei Zhou, chief financial officer at Charm Communications Inc., a Beijing-based television advertising agency, talks with Bloomberg’s Susan Li and Paul Gordon about the company’s stock listing in the U.S. and the outlook for China’s ad industry. ¶