Wall Street Journal Asia Fellowship at NYU

Only one more month until deadline for applications. The timeline is here. Eligibility requirements here. Procedure for applications is here.

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Alumnus Jody Xu reports on the less-than-stellar welcome President Obama received ahead of his China trip: 

Despite the message intended by President Obama from his spending the longest time in China on his first trip to Asia next week, the Chinese people are nonplussed.

One person asked in People Forum, an online chat room of the Peoples Daily: “Mr. President, don’t you think this is a bad time to visit given your recent approval to increase tax on Chinese tires and the escalating trade war against us?”

China’s leading English-language weekly, Global Times, found in an online poll that, out of 8,100 respondents, 86% said they either “do not anticipate” or “do not care much” about the coming visit of the U.S. President.

Obama Loses His Star Power–in China – Deal Journal – WSJ

Alumnus Shefali Anand on the Galleon insider trading case:

NEW DELHI — The tipster who investigators say touched off one of the largest insider-trading cases in recent years is the aunt of a friend of a former Moody’s Investors Service analyst who allegedly passed information to her, according to the analyst.

Prosecutors allege that an analyst at Moody’s gave Roomy Khan — identified by people familiar with the matter as the tipster — confidential information in 2007, before the announcement of Blackstone Group’s $26 billion takeover of Hilton Hotels. Ms. Khan and ..

Filing Says Tipster Got Info From Ex-Moody’s Analyst – WSJ.com

One more month to go until deadline for the fellowship. Here’s the timeline.