All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Government, Legislation & Politics

China planning to turn its economy from a labor incentive to technology and knowledge based country but not until when the full operation of the Three Gorges Dam and the natural gas pipeline from Shizuan are completed by 2010 because the country still need fossil oil to sustain the economy.

Congress needs to ensure that FDA is more proactive rather then reactive -- proactive toward protecting consumers. Should ensure FDA looks at all products with total fairness and no bias -- results/benefits should be the primary concern based on proper scientific testing and research. If something is...

The report, while critical of FDA, is more of a slap at Congress than the agency. It may remind Congress that consumers as well as the biotech and pharma industries rely on a healthy FDA. Moreover, it should serve to remind Congress to exercise caution before giving the agency increased regulator responsibility-...

Major changes: Commission (EC) wants to veto remedies proposed by national regulators (NRAs) if needed (today only the market analysis and the finding of market dominance can be vetoed). EC wants to set up a Euro-regulator (European Communications Market Authority) to foster harmonised adoption...

1. If Members of Congress and those running for president in 2008 do not recognize that this nation is in a health care crisis, we have only ourselves to blame---we put them into office to better our lives, and they are not doing the job at all, particlarly when it comes to ensuring health care services...

Taiwan Ministry of Economics lost the lawsuits against SMIC Chief Executive Officer Richard Chang (Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation; NYSE: SMI; SEHK: 981) and Robert Tsao of UMC (2303 TT; ADR: UMC) in the District Court and the Administrative High Courts. Though Ministry of Economics...

In January 2007, Romania's bankrupt Daewoo Auto had four possible suitors: GM, Ford, Chery of China and India's Tata. Apart from Byzantine administration practices and corruption that still prevail in all formerly Communist states, the tender called for: (1) certain minimum assured production...

* Major fault by the Romanian state * Fair competition is a fundamental right * the role f the European Commission

Did the Ford Motor Company, which had, until the current CEO's tenure, a succession of CEOs who were not born, raised, or educated in the United States, gain any international savvy thereby? Apparently not.

The Russian State has regained its self-esteem under the rule of Vladimir Putin, and the result is that his approval ratings within Russia make him invincible there. Putin does not believe in free market capitalism or the global economy when it comes to the control of domestic natural...