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Former
Psychiatrist Tells
of Horrors in
China’s Mental
Institutions
A4...WORLD
NASA
BUSINESS
Faced With New Threats
Businesses Turn to Industrial Warfare
A new system inspired by martial arts helps companies even the playing field when
facing competitors who follow no rules
By Joshua Philipp
Epoch Times Staff
The world of
global business
has become a
hostile place, and
business leaders
are likewise
faced with a
tough reality.
New Law Gives
Asteroid Mining
Companies the
Right to Keep
Space Gold
An assembly line in Orion Township, Mich., on June 22. Faced with new threats,
companies are going on the offensive to protect their businesses.
of the greatest threats
to businesses in the Western world is a culture that
makes them unable to
compete with countries that don’t
play by the same rules. A new system has already changed the culture of businesses in the United
Kingdom and has recently been
released in the United States.
It began in 2005 when the British government was looking for a
training program that could help
U.K.-based companies continually
improve. According to John Bradley, who at the time worked for the
British government’s National Skills
Academy, “We were helping companies become globally competitive through learning new skills.”
It was around that time when
Bradley was approached by Amar
Manzoor, founder of 7Tao, a
U.K.-based company that trains
businesses on the art of industrial warfare. Bradley decided
to give Amar’s program a shot,
and he said, “It was transformational to businesses” in the United
Kingdom.
See Industrial Warfare on A5
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RETAIL SALES
A3...NATION
Black Friday
Creep Leads to
Black Thursday
Backlash
By Bowen Xiao
Epoch Times Staff
TYCOON751/ISTOCK
F
or at least half a century, Black
Friday has been the biggest
shopping day of the year—the
acknowledged start to the Christmas sales season, the day retailers
move into the black.
But as stores started opening
their doors earlier and earlier until
finally creeping into Thanksgiving itself, something was bound to
give: Either Thanksgiving would be
defended as a day for families, or it
would become a day like any other.
Seized counterfeit products in
Hong Kong on Aug. 6.
Wonderful Health
Benefits of
Cranberries
A6...EPOCH FIT
See Black Thursday on A2
MISS WORLD
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Miss World Canada,
Stuck in Hong Kong, Explains
Attempt to Enter China
House Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee press
aide Leighton Brown photographs an Ascending Technologies drone
during a hearing on drones in Washington on Nov. 19.
DRONES
By Jonathan Zhou
Epoch Times Staff
T
he Federal Aviation
Agency, notorious for
its delays in rolling out
drone regulation, plans to create
a mandatory registration system
for consumer drones that will
go in effect by mid-December—
just in time for the expected deluge of new drone purchases for
Christmas.
The initiative was announced
in late October, and about a
month later, on Nov. 21, an
agency-created task force, with
input from drone industry leaders, released a set of recommen-
dations for the registry.
According to the recommendations, all drones weighing more than 250 grams (0.55
pounds) would require a registered owner. To register, owners would need to enter their
name and street address online
or via an app. Once registered,
the same unique number can be
affixed to however many drones
they own.
The FAA has been previously
criticized for delaying drone regulation, having pushed back the
2015 deadline set by Congress
for commercial drone regulation to 2017.
See FAA on A3
H
ONG KONG—Anastasia Lin’s plan
in passing through Hong Kong on
Nov. 25 was not to create another
media storm; but that’s just what happened
after authorities in the Chinese province of
Hainan denied her entry, once and for all, to
the city of Sanya, where the Miss World pageant is currently being held.
Lin is an outspoken supporter of human
rights in China and a practitioner of Falun
Gong, a spiritual practice that has been persecuted in its homeland for the last 16 years.
See Anastasia Lin on A4
Remember Paris
and Strike Back
A7...OPINION
AP PHOTO/KIN CHEUNG
FAA to Require Registration for
Consumer Drone Owners
By Matthew Robertson & Lin Yi
Epoch Times Staff
AP PHOTO/LAURENT CIPRIANI
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A6 ........................... Epoch Fit
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