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Visa problems (part 2)

I’ve quoted before from the often-amusing weekly newsletter of the Access Asia people in Shanghai. They write with attitude, which leavens the sometimes dull market research topics that are their bread and butter. And I will quote against, because this... ...full story at Tim Johnson

from Tim Johnson on Fri, Jul 04 2008

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