Congress-members from the right-of-center PAN and the PRI worked together to pass the law, a bill that is expected to boost investment and help spur economic growth.

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Started in 2005 by western-educated returnee Haidong Pan (see my photo at top right), the Beijing-based site has accumulated more than 5 million entries from 3 million contributors and is in both Chinese and English.

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To gain permission to manufacture their new model-a right then held by a few dozen state-owned factories-Wang and Pan lugged their prototype 2, 000 km to Beijing to show the Minister for Light Industry.

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Feldman highlights the far right's recent apparent moves to establish a pan-European cultural movement as the biggest risk.

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Are they right to think the latest Balkan war is, in effect, the last gasp of pan-Slav nationalism?

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