The impact of the laws will be less severe for bigger firms like them, Mr. Tseng says, because in order to maintain enormous work forces they generally have already been paying above-regulation wages.
He has scorned concerns over the interest cost on Italy's vast public debt, which Mr Monti had almost halved before Mr Berlusconi's reappearance panicked investors.
The sheer scale of the investment it took to begin commercial expansion at sea reflects the immensity of the profits that such East-West trade could create.
Charles Harvey and I spoke on a night drive through the enormous Shiwa estate, passing herds of zebra, impala, and wildebeest. "we should have known sooner what they were doing."