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Former Republican Missouri Senator Kit Bond will lead a delegation of St. Louis-area business leaders to China later this year. Bond's consulting firm that works on international trade will accompany regional and statewide businesses and academic institutions to China in December. Tim Nowak, executive director of the St. Louis-based World Trade Center, says the trip is an opportunity to connect companies in Missouri with business partners, government entities and academic partners in China, which he says is one of the fastest growing export markets for the state. "China consumes 8 percent of all of Missouri's exports," Nowak said. "It has gone from roughly $50 million in exports 15 years ago, to now we will pass more than $1 billion in exports to China." In 2011, a package of tax incentives to help create a China cargo hub at St. Louis Lambert Airport failed to gain enough support in the Missouri legislature. Follow Julie Bierach on Twitter: @jbierach
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When it comes to jobs in Missouri, Karla Klingner Diaz believes that immigration is not the problem -- but rather the solution.Diaz is an immigration…
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Barbara Leonhard, 60, is an instructor in the Intensive English Program and English-language Support Program at MU. In fall of 2008, she met her Chinese…
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Jane O’Toole plays more roles in her life than most people around you.She’s the founder of Xiao Lao Hu (Little Tiger) pre-school; she’s an instructor at…
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In China, the United States is widely regarded as the best place to send students who want a quality education. KBIA surveyed MU students who came from…
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In 2005, Columbia stockbroker Alex LaBrunerie placed a very long-distance cold call.Somewhere on a sidewalk in the Chinese metropolis of Hangzhou,…
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MU’s branch of the Confucius Institute has signed a one-year deal with the North Callaway School district in Kingdom city, Missouri to introduce…
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This week, Columbia College broke ground on a new science building. MU’s Confucius Institute is partnering with a program in the North Callaway school…
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This week, The special project “The China Connection” tells us about a program at the Missouri Military Academy in Mexico. Plus, an audio postcard that…
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Missouri Military Academy in Mexico has long prided itself in creating young leaders, boasting a one hundred percent college acceptance rate for the past…