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COLLEGE PARK, Md., Jan. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Students from the United States and China took home a real-world lesson in global entrepreneurship with an innovative course that partnered the University of Maryland's leading Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship with the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University in Beijing. MBA students from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business competed against their counterparts in China in a contest to present the best business plan pitch. The competition, now in its fifth year, was the culmination of a business plan course and trip to China for the Smith students, led by the Dingman Center in partnership with the Guanghua School of Management.

"As we know, with the westward shift of the center of gravity of the global economy towards the Asia Pacific, the 21st century has been forecast to be the Pacific century," said Zhang Weiying, dean of Peking University's Guanghua School of Management. "How to grasp business opportunities in China is a current topic of interest. We will continue our efforts to forge alliances with prestigious partners around the world such as the University of Maryland's Smith School to provide a platform for students to develop their business skills."

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Teams of three to five MBA students from the Smith School were up against MBA teams from Guanghua School of Management, Tsinghua University and University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), all competing at Peking University's campus. Each team was tasked with pitching a business plan for a venture that would do business in China or leverage China in some way. Teams presented their business ideas before a panel of expert judges that included Smith School leaders, Dingman Center entrepreneurs-in-residence, and entrepreneurial experts from China. After the morning's preliminary- round competition the field of 32 teams was narrowed to six finalists. The top prize, $3,000 went to Gorilla Inc, a team from UIBE who pitched the plan for a marketing services business, and who also took home the $1,000 prize for the audience-awarded People's Choice. The Guanghua School of Management had the greatest number of finalist teams - with a total of three.

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. government will investigate charges against import of oil well drill pipe from Chinese companies, said the Commerce Department on Thursday.

The case, which was filed by the United Steelworkers union and a group of companies from Texas and Illinois, is the first U.S. trade probe of this year against China after about a dozen in 2009.

The petitioners have asked for anti-dumping duties ranging from 429 percent to 496 percent.

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The Commerce Department said that the United States imported 194.6 million dollars worth of the drill pipe from China in 2008, up from 107.1 million dollars in 2006.

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In this probe case, the U.S. International Trade Commission has to decide by mid-February whether there is a reasonable indication that U.S. companies have been injured or threatened with injury by the imports.

If that hurdle is cleared, the Commerce Department is expected to announce preliminary countervailing duties in March and preliminary anti-dumping duties in June.

The new case followed a series of trade restrictions the United States had imposed on imports from China.

"We are certainly not out of the woods on protectionism," Pascal Lamy, the World Trade Organization's director-general said on Thursday.

"The fundamental reason there is a protectionist impulse has to do with the job market. We know that unemployment will remain high this year, maybe even next year," Lamy said.

The United Steelworkers union has been a driving force behind many of the trade cases against China, which it accuses of causing Americans to lose jobs with competitive prices.

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DOHA, Qatar - U.S. officials sought to shore up support Sunday for a tougher stand against Iran's nuclear program by saying Tehran had left the world little choice and expressing confidence that holdout China would come around to harsher U.N. penalties.

President Barack Obama's senior military adviser called for more time so diplomatic pressure had a chance to succeed and said from Israel, which considers Iran a strategic threat and has Human hair wigs hinted it could attack if negotiations failed, that such action could have "unintended consequences" throughout the volatile Middle East.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, on a quick visit to Persian Gulf allies Qatar and Saudi Arabia, said in a speech that Iran has not lived up to its nuclear obligations and has rebuffed U.S. and international efforts to engage in serious talks.

As a result, Clinton told the U.S.-Islamic World Forum that the U.S. and others were working on "new measures" to try to persuade Iran to change its course.

"We do not believe Iran should be a nuclear weapons power," Clinton said at a news conference before her address. She criticized Iran's defiance and said Tehran would not succeed in overcoming international opposition to it nuclear ambitions.

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Battered and bruised in 2009, U.S.manufacturing faces serious challenges as American manufacturers slipped tofrom 5th to 8th in a new a ranking of cost competitiveness released today byAlixPartners LLP, the global business-advisory firm. The study shows thatMexico continues to lead as the number-one low-cost country (LCC) foroutsourcing from the U.S., while China, improving considerably over lastyear's study, still came in 6th.

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WASHINGTON -- It's become apparent from recent events that America's political, business and scholarly elites have fundamentally misjudged China. Conflicts with China have multiplied. Consider: the undervalued renminbi and its effect on trade; the breakdown of global warming negotiations in Copenhagen; China's weak support of efforts to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons; its similarly poor record in pushing North Korea to relinquish its tiny atomic arsenal; the sale of U.S. weapons to Taiwan; and Google's threat to leave China rather than condone continued censorship.

The United States and China view the world in starkly different terms. The lesson of the Great Depression and World War II for Americans was that isolationism was self-defeating. Tried after World War I, it failed. The United States had to engage abroad to protect its economy and physical security. These core ideas remain the bedrock justifications for overseas military commitments and the promotion of an open world economy. The quest is for stability, not empire.

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Since 1978, China's economy has increased roughly 10-fold. The prevailing American assumption was that as China became richer, its interests and values would converge with those of the United States. China would depend increasingly on a thriving global economy. Freer domestic markets would loosen the stranglehold of the Communist Party. The United States and China would not always agree, but disputes would be manageable.

It isn't turning out that way. A wealthier China has become more assertive, notes Jacques. American prestige has further suffered from the financial crisis originating in the United States. But the fissure goes deeper: China does not accept the legitimacy and desirability of the post-World War II global order, which involves collective responsibility among great powers (led by the United States) for world economic stability and peace.

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NAGPUR: Acting on a tip-off, Sakkardara police managed to net a 19-yearold youth for his alleged involvement in breaking two shops in recent past.

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Byline: STEPHEN McGOWAN

IN the aftermath of a bruising Co-Operative Insurance Cup defeat Ricky Foster returned home, switched off the phone and pulled down the blinds.

As the defender admits, however, there is nowhere to hide in a one-club city. Particularly one where the wisdom of King Joey still resonates around his kingdom.

In typically blunt fashion, former Pittodrie star Joe Harper took to the airwaves after the extra-time loss to Dundee to brand the Dons players 'bottlers'.

Being battered from pillar to post by the manager was one thing, taking it from a former pro who once stood in their shoes was quite another.

'The criticism was hard to take in midweek,' admitted Foster after a medicinal 0-0 draw with Rangers. 'You'd like to think the former players had experienced that kind of thing before.

'I personally try to blot it out and try to be oblivious to it. You don't want these negative comments.

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'The former players obviously expect Aberdeen to be beating Dundee quite comfortably and we feel that ourselves. When you lose games as badly as we did on Tuesday night, you have to expect some sort of flak.

'But you maybe don't expect it from the ex-players who should know how difficult it can be.' There is little stick as hurtful as that which comes from members of the players' union and fellow peers. At least behind his own front door, Foster insulated himself from the chilling winds blowing outside. Venturing back out to travel to Ibrox on Saturday, warmth returned with an unexpectedly easy day as a makeshift central defender 'I drew the blinds and kept my head down in midweek,' he admits. 'I just went to training and came straight back home.

'We were eager to get another game played -- a big one -- and this is the best we have passed the ball all season.

'We tried our best to get Tuesday's defeat out of our systems as quickly as we possibly could.

'I thought we played well enough and deserved the point here. It was a much better display.

'I actually thought it wasn't going to be our day when Jerel Ifil went off injured in the first half.

'I've played at centre-half before and fortunately I wasn't tested too much and we kept Rangers to a few half chances.

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'It went through my mind again in the second half when a few balls were flashing across the face of goal. I was nervous about sticking my toe out in case it ended up in the back of our net. But I managed to get through the game this time.' From McGhee afterwards there was praise for his players, but also an admission that this result changed little. The Aberdeen manager is prepared to be ruthless in pursuit of a return to respectability and those he has earmarked for the exit still have one foot on the doorstep.

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Byline: Anthony Horowitz

I sometimes wonder if holidays abroad are still worth the trouble. The plane is delayed, the check-in desk is saturated and you're about to lose your shoes, belt, jacket, liquids and dignity to the hell of the security machine. The flight itself is an endurance test and the worst of it is that you've got to do it twice.

I find it hard to relax on holiday simply knowing that I've got to come back.

And the perceived benefits? A tan that will flake off in a curious and revolting fashion and which may also be cancerous if some of the experts are to be believed, and a handful of souvenirs which, even assuming you're allowed to take them on the plane, won't seem half as exotic by the time you get them home.

There are also many aspects of the holiday experience itself that are questionable, starting with the intensity. Too how to make New Jewelrys much sun, too much food, too much alcohol, too much family, all in too short a space of time. Sand in your socks and in your bed. The sudden compulsion to travel miles to see a church/temple/ruin that was actually of no interest to you whatsoever the week before.

All of this is not just foreign, actually. It's alien. And finally, what about the carbon footprint?

But I have discovered a reason for travelling that is entirely satisfying, although I admit it's not open to everyone... research. These days, nearly all my holidays are taken on behalf of my books and, glancing at my shelves, I can tell exactly where I've been in recent years. Two weeks with my son in Peru (Evil Star); Bangkok and northern Australia (Snakehead); a wonderful drive from Salt Lake City round Lake Tahoe to the edge of California (Nightrise).

And last year I was in Hong Kong - not perhaps the most obvious holiday destination but I'd chosen it as the setting of my most recent novel, Necropolis. I needed a city that could become a trap, a major metropolis that could be taken over by forces of evil without anyone noticing. Once the hero gets in, she can't get out - and there are, of course, very few exits from Hong Kong with just one airport, the Chinese border on one side and water on all the others.

It's also a very dramatic place, one of the most densely populated cities on the planet with a population of more than seven million. That works out at about 6,000 per sq.km, according to official figures.

Often thought of as a halfway house between East and West, it's actually nothing of the sort. No fewer than 95pc of its population are Chinese and, of course, it was handed back to China in 1997.

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WOMEN in West Lothian were today being warned to be extra vigilant following three muggings in less than a week.

The latest attack, on a 53-year-old woman, happened as she was walking along a footpath west of East Glen Avenue, Deans.

She was approached from behind by a man who tried to grab her handbag, but she managed to keep hold of it and the man let go. He then ran off towards Meldrum Primary School.

Police are appealing for witnesses to the attack, which took place at around 3.15pm on Thursday.

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The suspect was 20-22 years old, 5ft 8ins tall, of medium build, with short brown hair. He was wearing a blue bomber jacket. He is thought to have been seen in the Deans area earlier that day and police believe he could be the man responsible for two similar attacks last week.

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Sergeant Graham Jones, of Livingston Police, today urged women to be extra cautious. "We seem to be encountering a hot spot for this kind of incident and it is highly likely that these three cases are connected," he said.

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