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Dominik Holter

Stories from Dominik Holter

10AustrianAir
Lufthansa buyout stalls; the future remains murky at best
19/05/2009

Austrian Airlines, Austria’s flagship carrier, is set for a crash landing. Failed management and a bungled attempt to sell the airline – and now the financial crisis – threaten to undo the anticipated sale of the company to German carrier Lufthansa. The closing is seen as a last-ditch attempt to recoup at least some of taxpayers’ money that was recently injected into the airline group, and would allow the Austrian government to relinquish its 41.56% stake in the airline.

Prof. Junhua Zhang
Chinese Prof. Junhau Zhang on Asian-Western relations
15/04/2009

For the contemporary Chinese, according to Prof. Junhua Zhang, a political scientist of Zhejian University of Hangzhou City, the production of cheap consumer goods – colloquially referred to as ‘the China Price’ – is like “stinky tofu.”

As he paused, he glanced as his puzzled audience at the Danube University Krems on Mar. 23 with a disarming charming smile, before he continued, “it smells bad, but it tastes delicious.”

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