China admits jumping gun on new foreigners' tax

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• China admits jumping gun on new foreigners' tax
• VIDEO: Talks to change 300-year royal laws
• Can Google TV Rise From the Dead? With New Update, Stay Tuned.
• Europe bailout fund chief visits Beijing (AP)
• Japan factory output posts first post-quake slump (Reuters)
• Peter Jackson working with ex-US death row inmate (AP)
• Sarkozy calls Greek euro entry a mistake
• VIDEO: Will Greek debt write-off help?
• What's Cambodian For Caveat Emptor? Ask Angelina Jolie
• Part 2: Insider Info - Las Vegas' 10 Hottest Restaurants
• Of Olympus, Gaijin CEOs, and Japanese Agency Conflicts
• Red Wine from Vine to Barrel: A Visual Masterclass from a Napa Valley Winery
• High Potential Women Must Self-Promote to Be Promoted
• The Relentless Pursuit of Magical Energy
• AdVoice: Creative Fire @ Forbes CMO Summit
• US flying wounded Libyans to US, Germany for care (AP)
• NATO service member killed in Afghanistan (AP)
• VIDEO: Queen: Talks to bring 'new vibrancy'
• More survivors found after Turkey quake
• The World's Eight Best Sustainability Ideas

China admits jumping gun on new foreigners' tax Posted: 27 Oct 2011 11:08 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese official admitted on Friday that they had jumped the gun on a new tax on foreign workers mandating they pay social security contributions before the government had worked out exactly how the system would be implemented.

VIDEO: Talks to change 300-year royal laws Posted: 27 Oct 2011 11:01 PM PDT Commonwealth leaders are expected to pledge to overturn the 300-year-old succession laws, so a first-born daughter can take the throne ahead of any brothers.

Can Google TV Rise From the Dead? With New Update, Stay Tuned. Posted: 27 Oct 2011 10:53 PM PDT It looked like Google TV, the search giant?s bid to reinvent television for the Internet age, was on its last legs in July when Logitech slashed the price of its Google TV device from $249 to $99. Although the price cut seemed to work, summer came and went without a promised update that would include ...

Europe bailout fund chief visits Beijing (AP) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 10:41 PM PDT AP - The chief of Europe's bailout fund visited Beijing on Friday to discuss possible terms for a bond sale aimed at raising money from China and other non-European investors.

Japan factory output posts first post-quake slump (Reuters) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 10:28 PM PDT Reuters - Japanese factory output fell in September for the first time since the devastating March earthquake, a sign the economy's recovery from the disaster is tailing off in the face of slowing global growth, the strong yen and Europe's lingering debt woes.

Peter Jackson working with ex-US death row inmate (AP) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 10:20 PM PDT AP - A news report says renowned New Zealand movie director Peter Jackson is working with an American once on death row in hopes of getting the man a complete pardon.

Sarkozy calls Greek euro entry a mistake Posted: 27 Oct 2011 11:16 PM PDT French president's remarks come amid a global stocks rally and a eurozone bailout-fund official's visit to China.

VIDEO: Will Greek debt write-off help? Posted: 27 Oct 2011 10:28 PM PDT While European banks are swallowing the news that they must write off 50% of their Greek debts, Greeks themselves have given the news a mixed reaction.

What's Cambodian For Caveat Emptor? Ask Angelina Jolie Posted: 27 Oct 2011 10:18 PM PDT ? Investing in postwar countries requires a certain leap of faith. War and revolution play havoc with legal titles to land and property, so figuring out who owns what is tricky. Caveat Emptor, in other words. There?s also the reputational risk of doing business with unsavoury characters. That seems to have been the case with ...

Part 2: Insider Info - Las Vegas' 10 Hottest Restaurants Posted: 27 Oct 2011 10:17 PM PDT "Only in Vegas can you get food by a chef like Michel Richard at 5AM. Instead of the typical Las Vegas late night cuisine you can get beef tartare - I think Caesar's is at the forefront."

Of Olympus, Gaijin CEOs, and Japanese Agency Conflicts Posted: 27 Oct 2011 10:00 PM PDT I have putting off posting about the scandal at Olympus. Whither Japan endeavors to present and analyze long term and fundamentally important factors affecting Japan, not the sensational event or controversy of the moment.

Red Wine from Vine to Barrel: A Visual Masterclass from a Napa Valley Winery Posted: 27 Oct 2011 09:51 PM PDT I was lucky enough to have been invited to the??Louis M. Martini Winery in St. Helena, Napa Valley, earlier this month. This is a wonderful place to visit anytime of the year, but especially so in October and early November when the the vineyards and wineries are a hive of activity. During a period of ...

High Potential Women Must Self-Promote to Be Promoted Posted: 27 Oct 2011 09:37 PM PDT If women read and followed all of the reports on why they're not making enough money or achieving as much as their male peers, they'd be spending all their time trying to be someone they're not while doing work they don't like

The Relentless Pursuit of Magical Energy Posted: 27 Oct 2011 09:27 PM PDT Cold fusion and similar hopes for magical new energy sources continues to fascinate and entice investors but even if they are found, they won't make much of a difference in the real world.

AdVoice: Creative Fire @ Forbes CMO Summit Posted: 27 Oct 2011 09:03 PM PDT Yesterday I was triangulated between Andrew Essex, the very impressive CEO of the very impressive Droga5; Jenny Rooney, the able editor of Forbes CMO Network; and 100 CMOs from some of the world?s largest companies on a panel at the Forbes CMO Summit. Jenny fired questions at Andrew and me for an hour, and then ...

US flying wounded Libyans to US, Germany for care (AP) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 09:35 PM PDT AP - More than two dozen Libyans wounded in recent fighting are being flown to Boston and Germany for medical care.

NATO service member killed in Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 09:45 PM PDT AP - NATO says one of its soldiers has been killed in a roadside bombing in a restive southern Afghan province.

VIDEO: Queen: Talks to bring 'new vibrancy' Posted: 27 Oct 2011 08:48 PM PDT The Queen has opened the 21st meeting of the Commonwealth heads of government in Perth, Western Australia.

More survivors found after Turkey quake Posted: 27 Oct 2011 10:40 PM PDT Rescue teams pull two people out of the rubble, more than 100 hours after they were buried under collapsed buildings.

The World's Eight Best Sustainability Ideas Posted: 27 Oct 2011 09:02 PM PDT Katerva, a new nonprofit set up to recognize and support stand-out sustainability efforts around the world, has just announced its list of finalists for an award competition it hopes will be like a Nobel prize in the broad and somewhat amorphous field of sustainability. Among the eclectic choices: the Nissan LEAF electric car, an EBay ...

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