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International Travel
Introducing Wuxi's "Glamourous City"
Other cities like Shanghai, Beijing and Hangzhou are bigger and better known, but the unit price of properties is more than twice as high as Wuxi. Because of this, it is often too much to buy for many Chinese. Residential apartments, business and commercial properties are all developing very quickly...
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Being in Beijing
The Chinese capital is in full bloom this time of year while the progression of citywide preparations for the 2008 Olympic Games is in full swing all throughout the year. Beijing is moving forward in a big way; really, a quick moving microcosm of the country as a whole.
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Mistaken Identify: Moving Beyond Misconception to Enter the Nicaragua Market
Foreign investment is not only desired, but officially promoted by the government... I can tell you with great certainty that these days the major risks with investing in Nicaragua are much smaller and the business climate is continually improving.
-Calvet & Associates Investment Strategies
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China: A Nation in Motion
Ten days in China is not nearly enough time either as a tourist or value investor. Bearing in mind the flight, which is nearly a day long, or nearly two after whizzing by the International Date Line, unless your point of departure is, say, Vancouver, you’re already behind schedule before even touching down!
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Nicaragua: The Undiscovered Country
Nicaragua? Why Nicaragua? The question's been asked over and over by everyone I've come in contact with since I returned from investigating investment opportunities in this economically down-trodden Central American country. A year earlier, I’d have asked myself the same question...
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Nicaragua Part II: Exploring the Undiscovered
When I set out to make my first trip to Nicaragua a year earlier I had no idea what to expect. Aside from the urging of several people within the publishing and real estate industries with whom I would be dealing upon arriving, there was little to get excited over...
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Revisiting China - More on property buying and the purchasing process for the foreign investor, plus interviews with real estate agents and salespeople covering properties in Beijing and Wuxi.
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Coverage on two new oceanfront communities under development on the Nicaraguan coast, Montecristo Beach and Gran Pacifica, and how to choose the best location for living and investing.
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Exploring Eastern Europe at Bulgaria's Black Sea Coast. Do the coastal communities hold the key? Or will keeping close to cities like Plovdiv and the nation's capital, Sofia, prove more rewarding for patient investors?
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Investing & Finance
Adventure Capitalist
In his latest journey, bestselling author and legendary investor Jim Rogers takes us through 116 countries totaling 152,000 miles and 342 pages worth of strongly opinionated business advice by way of road hugging narrative from the comfort of his banana colored Benz on his latest trip through the global marketplace...
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More Investing & Finance
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Selling a property? Searching for the best way to maximize your profits? The 1031 Exchange offers a secure means for protecting your profits by deferring your taxes. But is it as quick and simple as it may seem? Does it work for international exchanges? Are we really saving money when the smoke clears? Check back shortly for more answers about this underserved government perk.
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Music
The Knack: Get Some, Go Again
"We, at the time, were outrageous cause we used dirty words. And all we were doing was updating the same kind of outrage that our parents felt when they saw bands talking about 'getting some...' and now we’re just describing what it is they were getting!"
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Dead Kennedys: Reawakening the Dream
"The Beatles sued one another... The Sex Pistols sued one another... The Misfits... The Beach Boys... I mean, okay, it makes good copy for your daily paper or tabloids, but ultimately, the music's much more powerful than any of that. Do you care now that The Sex Pistols sued each another?"
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Iron Maiden: Unleash the Beast
"Maiden occupies a place that very few other bands can fulfill. The people seem to be more or less in universal agreement that this band 'happens', in terms of live stuff, and 'happens', in terms of sales and people coming to shows and everything—that metal is definitely back!"
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Literature
With Liberty and Justice for All?
The effect of the American Revolution of 1776 and the creation of the Union in 1787 saw another kind of revolution take place in the minds of women, which gradually led to a changing of their status in American life...
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The Fall of Ichabod
It is alleged that this "spectre" returns nightly to the original scene of battle... he moves with such speed and agility, few could offer accounts of his appearance in great detail... and none dare ever approach this supposed spot alone or after night fall...
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