A man found guilty of scalping more than 500 tickets to the Beijing Olympics was sentenced to two and a half years in jail and a $US65,000 ($A98,000) fine. The 41-year-old Chinese national used illegally obtained identification information to book …

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Shengtai Pharmaceutical, Inc. (SGTI.OB) reported that the August Olympics caused a slowdown in its fiscal year 2009 Q1 (ended September 30, 2008) financial performance. The government restrictions on manufacturing and transportation, put in place in Beijing to reduce pollution, disrupted normal business activity. As a result, Shengtai reported that Q1 revenues were 6% lower at $18 million, while net income fell a more serious 72% to $630,000. Shengtai makes high-quality, pharmaceutical grad

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A man found guilty of scalping more than 500 tickets to the Beijing Olympics was sentenced to two and a half years in jail and a $US65,000 ($A98,000) fine.

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Jump to the full entry & travel map Beijing, China It’s our last day in Beijing and can I say LET THE SHOPPING BEGIN!  We haven’t done much shopping here just alot of sightseeing.  Today we went to the silk market with Jeff and Andrea hoping to find some great deals on silk, pearls and knockoffs.  We were told what to expect with the negotiating and haggling but we didn’t realize what we were in for.  We take a cab to the market and as soon as we walk in the level of s

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In September of this year, Anton Troianovski, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, spent a couple days here with me in Krasnodar and also down in Sochi where he attended the Sochi Investment Forum. I really enjoyed showing Anton around Krasnodar and hoped that he would be able to capture some of Krasnodar’s positive energy in an article. He mentioned that he would be writing a couple articles about Krasnodar Krai. His first article appeared on Friday November 14th. It’s a very thorough a

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