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Thursday 1 September 2011


September 2, 2011 -- 6:00 a.m. GMT+08:00
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FRONT SECTION
1 Samsung Is Undeterred by Apple Litigation
Samsung Electronics has shrugged off early court losses in patent disputes with Apple, apparently able to navigate around them. And few Samsung investors seem to believe the litigation will deal a major blow to Samsung's fast-rising smartphone business.


Global Factory Activity Stalls
Factories around the world are throttling back, signaling a broadening of the slowdown in economic activity that is raising the specter of a double-dip recession.


Skeleton Crew Solves Australian Mystery
The skeleton of Ned Kelly, Australia's most famous outlaw, was confirmed by forensic scientists as being among remains found at Pentridge Prison in the southern city of Melbourne—albeit missing most of the skull.


2 What's News—   3 Unredacted WikiLeaks Cables Published Europe Struggles to Find Unity on Debt Crisis   4 Taiwan's Tsai Stresses Slower Track for China Ties Hurdles Remain For Tepco Thailand to Raise Minimum Wage   5 Australian Animal Exporter Says Welfare Practices Have Improved   6 Syrian Attorney General Resigns Libya Standoff Spurs Worries   7 New Phone-Tablet Hybrid Generates Skepticism   8 Argentina Debates Foreign Land Buys Study Finds Extensive Waste in War Contracting
 
FRONT SECTION
12 Germany's Resiliency Buoys Europe
Positive data on German employment and manufacturing offered a ray of optimism for struggling parts of Europe that rely on Germany both as an export market and as a financier of bailouts.


16 Now Everyone Is a Racket Diva

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German Resilience Reassures Europe
Positive data on German employment and manufacturing offered a ray of optimism...
 
 
Goldman Takes a Dark View
Large banks' trading advice to its well-heeled hedge-fund customers is a...
 
 
Romney, in Shift, to Court Tea Party
Feeling the heat from RIck Perry's surge in GOP polls, Mitt Romney is reworking...
 
 
Housing Chief Takes Tough Stance
How aggressively the Obama administration moves to provide more aid to the...
 
 

OPINION
9 Chinese Monetary Reserve-ations
Beijing shows new signs of losing control of credit creation.


Italy: It's Not a 'Phase'
Scenes from a stagnant economy.


Bernie Sanders Confidential
A bureaucracy collects private data, and a Senator releases it.


10 OPINION  OPINION INDIA: India Needs a Tea Party   MAX BOOT: Did Libya Vindicate 'Leading From Behind'?   11 OPINION   SHELBY STEELE: Obama and the Burden of Exceptionalism The U.N. Should Document Burma's Abuses
 
17 Japan Government-Backed Fund Eyes Foreign Investors
The $2.6 billion merger of the small-panel LCD operations of three big Japanese electronics makers put the spotlight on a previously little-known government-backed entity that was key to putting the deal together.


BNY Mellon Ousts Chief In Shake-Up
In a sudden shake-up atop the world's largest custody bank, Bank of New York Mellon chief executive Robert P. Kelly has stepped down after being asked by the board to leave.


Arctic Riches Lure Explorers
Exxon's blockbuster $2.2 billion deal to drill for oil in the frigid waters north of Russia with OAO Rosneft is the latest sign of the energy industry's white-hot interest in exploring above the Arctic Circle.


18 PCCW Seeks Listing for Trust China Cosco to Overhaul Operations Investors Gamble on Chinese Start-Ups Corrections & Amplifications   19 U.S. Auto Sales Rise In August Retailers Feel Effects of Hurricane Japan's Domestic Auto Sales Down 26%   20 Gome Shareholder Bain Says It's in for Long Term BP Raid Continues in Moscow   21 Goldman Takes a Dark View Singapore Subsidiary Forms Japan Fund With Canada Pension Plan   22 Stocks Start Month on Down Note Asian Shares Mostly Up  CURRENCY TRADING: Euro Slumps on Encouraging U.S. Data   23 East Asian Bond Issuance Drops Treasury Prices Bounce Japanese Yields Rise Despite Firm Auction   28  HEARD ON THE STREET: Li & Fung's Double Struggle  HEARD ON THE STREET: Tesco's Tough International Choices  HEARD ON THE STREET: AT&T: Consult the Oracle Overheard: Surreal Collateral
 
W1 Dick Cheney's Wars: The Former Vice President on 9/11, Iraq and the Future
Excerpts from the former vice president's new memoir, "In My Time."


W3 Paul Gilding: Optimist, Environmentalist   W4  ON WINE: Drink, Memory: How to Remember That Wine   W5 A (Culinary) Major in Philosophy  TRICKS OF THE TRADE: Prepping Food for the Eyes   W6 Bohemian Rhapsody on Two Wheels   W7 Victoria, By Sea  TRAVELER'S TALE: Little Country, Big Impact   W8  TINA GAUDOIN ON STYLE: Creating Your Own Clearance Rack   W9 A Younger Old School Tie   W10 'Idiot Brother': Silly, Satirical and Smart   W11  HOME FRONT: Bringing the Old World Into the New   W14 What Killed American Lit.   W15 Chameleon Jane A City That Survived   W16  RUMBLE SEAT: In BMW's Repackaged Z4, Less Is More