thetruthaboutcars.com - 11/18/2008
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Chinese carmakers SAIC and Dongfeng have plans to acquire GM and Chrysler, China’s 21st Century Business Herald reports today. [A National Enquirer the paper is not. It is one of China's leading business newspapers, with a daily readership over three million.] The paper cites a senior ...
jhockey.wordpress.com - 11/18/2008
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Claude Lemieux, who had been working out in
Arizona to prepare for an NHL comeback attempt, was...
somehow convinced to play hockey in Asia with the China Sharks. The move happened quickly and he has already suited up for the Chinese team against Anyang ...
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Claude Lemieux in China
nhl.fanhouse.com - 11/19/2008
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by Adam Gretz Former NHL super-pest and universally
despised agitator (unless he played for your team) Claude...
Lemieux has finally completed his highly anticipated comeback and is now a member of the Sharks -- the China Sharks. That's right, Lemieux, ...
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Claude Lemieux Completes Comeback, Ends Up in China
news.bbc.co.uk - 11/18/2008
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The State of NASCAR
Full Throttle —
... in Daytona and Charlotte as well. (Sorry France, that personal 24hr on-call caddy must go!)
Then there are the rumors, and some facts, out of Detroit. The facts are both Dodge and Ford have cut out any financial support for the truck series.
The rumor mill had GM merging with Chrysler a couple weeks ago but that has been shelved as the Congressional Nitwits hammer out a deal to bailout Detroit while simultaneously picking the pockets of the taxpayers.
And now, it may come to this.
Reports are surfacing that China, by way of Shanghai Automotive ...
China considering GM assets
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(From TheTruthAboutCars.com): "Chinese carmakers SAIC and Dongfeng have plans to acquire GM and Chrysler, China’s 21st Century Business Herald reports today. [A National Enquirer the paper is not. It is one of China's leading business newspapers, with a daily readership over three million.] The paper cites a senior official of China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology– the state regulator of China’s auto industry– who dropped the hint that “the auto manufacturing giants in China, such as Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) and Dongfeng ...
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